Mr N Baijendra Kumar, CMD NMDC, while addressing company’s shareholders during 61st Annual General Meeting at Hyderabad said that the progress of construction of the company’s steel plant in Chhattisgarh is noticeable and various packages are at construction completion stage. This 3 million tonne capacity integrated steel plant is expected to be operational by third quarter of FY’2020-21. He said “The progress of construction of the steel plant during the year 2018-19 is noticeable and various packages are at construction completion stage. Cold trial of individual equipment’s under various packages is in progress. The steel plant is scheduled to be commissioned in three phases and is expected to be operational by third quarter of FY 2020-21. Operational power supply line is already energized and power was made available to various units of steel plant. Rail connectivity to the plant premises for initial traffic movement of material is in place.”
He added “At present, overall site progress of civil works, structural erection and equipment erection are respectively at 95%, 92% and 78%.”
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