Union Minister of Steel and Mines, Narendra Singh Tomar dedicated to the Nation SAIl-Bhilai Steel Plant’s new long rail welding complex that is part of the Plant’s ambitious 7 MT MODEX programme on Monday.
The function was witnessed by Union Minister of State for Steel & Mines, Vishnu Deo Sai, Minister for Higher Education, Government of Chhattisgarh, Prem Prakash Pandey, Aruna Sundararajan, Secretary, Ministry of Steel, Govt. of India, PK Singh, Chairman, SAIl, Shri G Vishwakarma, Director (Projects & Business Planning) SAIl, S Chandrasekaran, CEO, Bhilai Steel Plant, M Ravi, Executive Director (Works) & In charge (Projects), Executive Directors and senior officers of the Plant, members of the Plant’s Projects Organisation, members of Bhilai Steel collective in large numbers and representatives of different agencies associated with the Universal Rail Mill (URM) Project and long Rail Welding Complex.
Accompanied by dignitaries and senior officers of SAIl and BSP, Tomar witnessed welding process of long Rail Welding Complex. He evinced keen interest in the operations of the new complex. later Tomar, dignitaries and senior officers of SAIl visited the Universal Rail Mill and witnessed trial rolling of long rails at the new Mill. Earlier, the dignitaries also planted saplings at the URM complex.
Addressing the Bhilai collective, Tomar said he was highly impressed with what he saw today at the new universal rail mill. “The nation has lot of expectations from SAIl,’’ he said, adding “the contribution of SAIl towards nation building is increasing by the day’’.
He expressed confidence that the ongoing modernization and expansion of Bhilai Steel Plant would soon be completed and production from the Plant would consequently increase. “This has been possible because of the hard work put in by the Bhilai Collective. SAIl is a big family and as such the contribution of each and every member of this family is important,’’ he said.
Tomar expressed confidence that SAIl would not stop at the 23 MT capacity after its current Modex programme but would go on to achieve 50 MT capacity by year 2025. He concluded by extending his good wishes for the future of SAIl and Bhilai. Chairman SAIl, PK Singh in his address expressed satisfaction over the significant progress made in Projects at Bhilai in the last few months.
“This is my second visit to Bhilai in three months and what I have seen today has left me pleasantly surprised,’’ he said, adding “this has been possible because of hard work and labour put in by Bhilaians. I have worked in this Plant as ED (Works) and I can say that among all the units of SAIl, Bhilai Steel Plant is unique in itself. The contribution of the entire collective is indeed appreciable,’’ he said. As regards the new 1.2 million tonne per annum capacity Universal Rail Mill, he said this is the most modern mill of its kind in the world that would produce different kinds of rails. Along with the existing rail mill, the Plant’s rail making capacity would be 2 million tonnes, he said.
He assured the Steel Ministry that the support that SAIl-BSP would extend to Indian Railways would be unparalleled in the world.