The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), located in Bhilai, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, is

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's first and main producer of steel rails, as well as a major producer of wide steel plates and other steel products. The plant also produces steel and markets various chemical by-products from its

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s and coal chemical plant. It was set up with the help of the USSR in 1959. Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) is eleven-time winner of the Prime Minister's Trophy for best integrated steel plant in the country. The plant is the sole supplier of the country's longest railway tracks, which measure . The 130 - meter rail, which would be the world's longest rail line in a single piece, was rolled at URM, Bhilai Steel Plant (SAIL) on 29 November 2016. The plant also produces products such as wire rods and merchant products. Bhilai Steel Plant has been the flagship integrated steel plant unit of the Public Sector steel company, the

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and is its largest and most profitable production facility. It is the flagship plant of SAIL, contributing the largest percentage of profit. The Bhilai Steel plant was established with Russian collaboration in Durg district of Chattisgarh and started production in 1959. Agarias, A community of iron smelters helped the discovery of a source of iron ore for Bhilai Steel Plant

The organisational framework

Modernization and expansion programs

Bhilai Steel Plant is raising its capacity of steel production through modernization and new projects. The major upcoming project is the commissioning of a giant blast furnace 4,060 cubic meters in volume, with a hot metal production capacity of 8,000 tonnes per day. The Bhilai Steel Plant has created steel for one of the railway's most challenging projects, construction of the railway line and plane network between

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at an investment of . BSP has also developed a special grade of TMT rebars for use in the high-altitude tunnel inside the Banihal Pass. BSP had also developed the special soft iron magnetic plates for the prestigious India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) project of the

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(BARC). It has also developed special grade high-tensile (DMR249A) steel for building India's first indigenously built anti-submarine warfare corvette,

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The plant was further expanded on 14 June 2018.

Environment management

Bhilai Steel Plant manages Bhilai Nagar township which has 13 sectors.

Accidents

On 12 June 2014, a gas leak in Bhilai Steel Plant killed six people, including two senior officials. Over 50 people were affected by the accident. A breakdown in the water pump house caused a

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leak, which seeped into the premises due to pressure differences along the purification chamber lines. Among the dead were two deputy general managers, while the injured included

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personnel as well as workers and officials of the public-sector plant. The leak started at around 6:10 pm IST. On 9 October 2018, 13 plant employees (including four BSP fire services officials) were killed and 14 people (including six BSP fire services officials) were injured in a blast at the plant. The blast occured in a pipeline near the coke oven section at the steel plant in the town of Bhilai.

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External links

Website of BhilaiBhilai Steel Plant
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