All the sectors of Bhilai Township will have proper Street Sign Boards, officials informed.
Spread over 9103 acres, the steel township has more than 35,954 quarters in 16 sectors
Twenty one villages in the periphery of Bhilai have been identified for adoption as model steel villages where the Plant's CSR Department is engaging in a number of sustainable activities.
The Town Administration Department of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) had already taken up work for improvement of sewerage system in Civic Center area in Bhilai Township.
Notably, the expansion and modernisation of Bhilai Steel Plant is also underway to take its steel manufacturing capacity from 4 MTPA to 7 MTPA.
BSP which had been taking several key steps during the past years to preserve the environment has already eliminated use of CFC-11 by replacing it by li-Br based Chiller unit, way before the target date of January 1, 2010.
Procurement of Carbon Tetra Chloride (CTC) has been stopped and use of Trichloroethylene has been started, officials stated.
Two projects under the aegis of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have been implemented in BSP for the elimination of use of CTC. Procurement of Halon based fire extinguishers have also been replaced by FM 200 based units.
All industrial package air conditioners using CFC-12 were also replaced in a phased manner by units using CFC free refrigerant. The plant has brought down the use of ozone depleting substances to 3.05 tonnes in 2014 from about 10 tonnes a decade ago.
The ozone depleting potential, a true measure of consumption of Ozone depleting substances, has also been reduced to 0.167 tonnes by BSP in 2014, which is amongst lowest in industries.
Under the ongoing Expansion/Modernization projects, BSP has taken due care to fully comply with the Montreal protocol in procurement and installation of, Air conditioning/ refrigeration units. It is also ensured that, the fire protective equipment being procured is also fully complying with the Montreal protocol.
SAIl has set a target of increasing hot metal manufacturing capacity of the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) from 15.41 million tonnes per annum to 23.5 million tonnes post the ongoing modernization and expansion project.
Notably, all pollution control systems in the project expansion underway at BSP is designed to achieve chimney emission within 50mg/Nm3 as per Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB) directives, officials stated.