Steel Authority of India ltd (SAIl), country’s largest steel maker in public sector, will be setting up a 1.2 MTPA ‘Slime Beneficiation Unit’ for iron ore slime at its Dallirajhara Mechanised Mines in Chhattisgarh, company officials said on Monday.
Notably, SAIl is co-
ordinating with the
construction of Rail line from Dallirajhara to Rowghat
covering a distance of 95 km with Indian Railways in Chhattisgarh.
The project for doubling of Railway line between
Kirandul and Jagdalpur in Chhatisgarh’s insurgency
ridden Bastar region is
expected to be complete by January 2019, official sources informed. Notably, NMDC ltd — the country’s largest iron ore
producer and exporter, had also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the
Union Ministry of Railways
on December 21, 2012 and the aforesaid project would be helpful in significantly
augmenting evacuation
capacity of NMDC’s Bailadila Sector mines by rail from the existing 28 MTPA to 40 MTPA of iron ore.
NMDC had deposited an amount of Rs 150 crore with East Coast Railway and
the expenditure incurred as on March 31, 2015 was Rs 132 crore, sources informed.
For execution of the
project, the Railways has
divided the 150 km length of doubling work into three Sections namely, Jagdalpur to Silakjori 45.50 km, Kirandul to Gidam 52.23 km and
Silakjori to Gidam 52.73 km.
Notably, the Rs 2000 crore Rowghat to Jagdalpur railway line would also pass
through heavily insurgency infested Kondagaon and Narayanpur districts of Bastar division in Chhattisgarh, officials stated.
The project is a joint
venture between Chhattisgarh government, NMDC, SAIl and IRCON. There are a total of 840 farmers in Chhattisgarh whose land had been acquired for the Dallirajahara-Rowghat rail
line project, the Central Government has informed.
It may be recalled that Chhattisgarh government would also be earmarking
suitable land banks in
the vicinity of Dallirajahara-Rowghat-Jagdalpur Rail Corridor for setting up of small industrial units, officials informed. The Chhattisgarh Government would be
earmarking suitable land banks in the vicinity of Dallirajahara-Rowghat-Jagdalpur Rail Corridor for setting up of small industrial units, officials informed.