Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, is
scheduled to lay foundation stone for the Rasthriya Ispat Nigam's (Visakhapatnam
Steel Plant) expansion project on 20 May 2006.
The expansion project includes
doubling the capacity of the plant from existing 3 million tpa to 6 million tpa
and setting up of units such as a blast furnace, coke oven, sinter plant, steel
melting shop, seamless tube mill, and rolling mill.
The project forms part of RINL's
overall objective of attaining 10 million tpa hot metal capacity by 2020, at an
overall investment of Rs.17,500 crore.
Also See:
Govt
to clear VSP expansion plan soon (30-Sep-05)
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