The Public Hearing for the environmental clearance for the Project “Revised Configuration of 7.0 MTPA Modernization-Cum-Expansion of SAIl- Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) along with Captive Power Plant was held last week at Nehru House of Culture, Sector-1, Bhilai.
It must be written here that this has been a long pending issue for the company for the last many years.
The Public hearing was chaired by Additional District Magistrate Sanjay Agrawal, IAS and was conducted by A C.Maloo, Reginal Officer Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB), Durg.
The Public Hearing was attended by various stake holders like Sarpanchs, citizens from villages around BSP and Non-government Organisations (NGOs). large participation of people also assumes significance in this context.
Bhilai Steel Plant was represented by its management team comprising of ED (Projects) A K Mathur, ED (Works) P K Dash, GM I/c (P&A) Anurag Nagar and DGM I/c (Env. Mgmt) R G Gupta. Other officials from Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board (CECB), BSP, MECO Netc were also present on the occasion.