Former Indian cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly, who announced plans to establish an integrated steel plant with his friend at Salboni in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur, will execute the project with the assistance of Captain Steel, a senior official confirmed.
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as we embark on the construction of our third steel plant in Bengal. Many may think I only played the sport, but we initiated a small steel plant in 2007, and within five to six months, construction of our new steel plant in Medinipur will start,” Ganguly said.
“Sourav is a close friend of ours and we have had a long-standing association. With Sourav’s support, we aim to establish a steel plant in West Bengal. We have approached the government with a request for a minimum of 600-700 acres,” Captain Steel director Sanjay Gupta told PTI.
“Our goal is to establish a one-million-tonne capacity integrated steel plant with a tentative project cost of Rs 2,500 crore,” Gupta said with indications that land has been allocated to them.
