Question

Explain five major steel industries of India. Its urgent

Answer 1

Answer:

Some of the major problems faced by Indian iron and steel industry are as follows:

Capital: ...

Lack of Technology: ...

Low Productivity: ...

Inefficiency of public sector units: ...

Low potential utilisation: ...

Heavy demand: ...

Shortage of metallurgical coal: ...

Inferior quality of products:

Answer 2

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Steel Plants

1. Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (Andhra):

The Union Cabinet, in June 1979, approved an investment of Rs. 3,897 crores for setting up a 3.4 million tonne public sector steel plant at Visakhapatnam in collaboration with the erstwhile USSR. It was the first integrated steel project to be set up in the southern region.

2. Rourkela Plant (Orissa):

Set up by the Government of India at a cost of Rs. 171 crores in collabora­tion with a German combine M/s Krupp and Demag. Special categories of steel required for automobile industry, railway rolling stock and ship-building are being produced.

3. Bhilai Plant (M.P.):

Pig iron, ingots, rails of heavy and medium structures, Light structural sleeper beds and billets are being produced. Sources of raw materials iron from Dallia Rajara, coal from Korba, manganese from nearby Bhandara in Balaghat district and limestone from Birmitrapur-Hathiabari deposits. The Bhilai steel plant celebrated its Silver Jubilee in early 1984.

4. Durgapur Plant (West Bengal):

Estimated cost Rs. 288 crores. The plant gets iron ore from the Bolari mines in Orissa, coal from Jharia, limestone from Rourkela and water supply from the Damodar River. Pig iron tools, special steel, ingots and alloys are produced.

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