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Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) is located in the 
Currently it houses five blast furnaces with a total capacity to produce 5.8 MT of liquid steel. The plant is undergoing a mass modernisation drive after which its output capacity is expected to cross 10 MT.
An upgrade of the plant was also done in the 1990s in its steel refining units and continuous casting machines. The plant has recently taken expansion plan along with Korean Steel Company, Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO) Initially, about 64 moujas (a mouja may have several village units) had been acquired for the plant. Of the total land acquired, only 7,765 ha was used to set up the steel plant. The rest has been given by SAIL to the private parties without government’s approval.
The plant's yearly profit stood at for the
Bokaro district
Bokaro district is one of the most industrialized zones in India. It is one of the twenty-four districts of the Jharkhand state, India. It was established in 1991 by carving out one subdivision consisting of two blocks from Dhanbad District an ...
of Jharkhand
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. It is the fourth integrated public sector steel plant in India
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built with Soviet
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help. It was incorporated as a limited company in 1964. It was later merged with the state-owned Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).
Currently it houses five blast furnaces with a total capacity to produce 5.8 MT of liquid steel. The plant is undergoing a mass modernisation drive after which its output capacity is expected to cross 10 MT.
An upgrade of the plant was also done in the 1990s in its steel refining units and continuous casting machines. The plant has recently taken expansion plan along with Korean Steel Company, Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO) Initially, about 64 moujas (a mouja may have several village units) had been acquired for the plant. Of the total land acquired, only 7,765 ha was used to set up the steel plant. The rest has been given by SAIL to the private parties without government’s approval.
The plant's yearly profit stood at for the financial year
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2003–04 and has increased every year since then reaching to 84.26 billion INR in the financial year 2007–08.
Products
Bokaro Steel Plant is designed to produce a wide range of products: # Hot rolled coils # Hot rolled plates # Hot rolled sheets # Cold rolled coils (CRM) # Cold rolled sheets # Tin mill black plates # Galvanised plain and corrugated sheets # Oxygen gas # Hydrogen gas # Coke oven byproductsReferences
Further reading
* * {{authority control 1964 establishments in Bihar Steel plants of India Steel Authority of India Bokaro district Companies based in Jharkhand Manufacturing companies established in 1964 Economy of Jharkhand India–Soviet Union relations Soviet foreign aid Indian companies established in 1964