The NMDC ltd — India’s largest iron-ore producer and exporter in public sector — is in the process of constructing massive residential complexes at Dhanpunji and Chokawad villages for its upcoming three- million-tonne per annum steel plant being established at Nagarnar in Bastar district.
The company has also commenced the process of building other necessary infrastructure for its proposed 3.0 MTPA steel plant.
It will also be developing elaborate Plant Storm Water Drainage and Sewerage lines for its 3.0 MTPA Integrated Steel Plant at Nagarnar near Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh, officials stated.
The company had recently commenced construction of new block station, staff quarters, associated P-way and S&T works in connection with the construction of Railway siding. The total cost of the infrastructure for which the tender had been floated is Rs 56.06 crore which is to be completed in a span of one year.
NMDC is also setting up an elaborate Telecommunication system through Server-based Telephone Exchanges along with remote units on Optical Fibre Cable (OCF) Network for its 3.0 MTPA Integrated Steel Plant at Nagarnar near Jagdalpur in Bastar division of Chhattisgarh, officials stated.
The company also recently commissioned its new iron ore mine in Chhattisgarh’s extreme insurgency-hit Dantewada district of Bastar.
This apart, the mine- Bailadila Iron Ore Deposit 11B, is located in Bailadila hills where the NMDC has already several massive high-quality iron ore mines spread out in Bacheli and Kirandul areas.
The NMDC has developed the mine having iron ore production capacity of 7 Million Tonnes Per Annum (MTPA) with an investment of more than Rs600 crore.
With the commissioning of 11B Project Mine, NMDC has ramped up production capacity from present level of 25 MTPA to 32 MTPA from Chhattisgarh’s Bailadila Sector.