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== History. ==
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The government of [[India]] and the [[USSR]] entered into an agreement, which was signed in [[New Delhi]] on 2 March 1955, for the establishment of an integrated iron and steelworks at Bhilai with an initial capacity of one million tons of steel ingot.{{Citation needed|date=April 2017}}
The main consideration for choosing Bhilai was the availability of [[iron ore]] at [[Dalli Rajhara]], about 100 km from the site; [[limestone]] from Nandini, about 25 km from the plant, and [[Dolomite (mineral)|dolomite]] at Hirri, about 140 km away, and coal from Korba and Kargali coal fields. The water for the plant comes from the Tandula dam and power from Korba thermal power station. The plant was commissioned with the inauguration of the first blast furnace by then president of India, Dr. [[Rajendra Prasad]], on 4 February 1959. The plant was expanded to 2.5 million tons in September 1967 and a further expansion to 4 MT was completed in 1988. The main focus in the 4 MT stage was the [[continuous casting]] unit and the plate mill, a new technology in steel casting and shaping in [[India]].<ref name="Sail">{{cite web|title=BHILAI STEEL PLANT|url=http://www.sail.co.in/pnu.php?tag=bhilai_facility|work=Steel Authority of India Limited|publisher=SAIL, All Rights Reserved|access-date=24 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623171734/http://www.sail.co.in/pnu.php?tag=bhilai_facility|archive-date=23 June 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== The organisational framework ==
Bhilai Steel Plant functions as a unit of SAIL, with corporate offices in New Delhi. Over the years, Bhilai Steel Plant developed an organizational culture that forces its commitment to values and stimulates continuous improvements and higher levels of performance. The [[chief executive officer]] controls operations of the plant, township, and iron mines. The CEO is assisted by his D.R.O.s(Direct Reporting Officers), i.e. the functional heads, executive directors, general Manager concept of zonal heads, and HODs who integrate functions with clear accountability for achieving the corporate vision, company goals, and objectives.
== Modernization and expansion programs ==
Bhilai steel plant is raising its capacity of steel production through modernization and new projects. The major upcoming project is the commissioning of a giant Blast Furnace of volume 4060 cubic meters with a hot metal production capacity of 8000 mt per day.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Bhilai Steel Plant's Modernisation and Expansion Program Gains Momentum|url=http://www.sail.co.in/BSP_list_of_packages_in_CPFR.pdf|work=Steel Authority of India Limited|publisher=SAIL|access-date=24 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503143642/https://www.sail.co.in/BSP_list_of_packages_in_CPFR.pdf|archive-date=3 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Projects in progress include a new compressed air station, oxygen plant, new installations to support power requirements, and ore handling capacities expansion. Presently, the total requirement of iron ore of Bhilai Steel Plant is met from [[Dalli Rajhara]] Iron Ore Complex (IOC). In view of IOC's rapidly depleting reserves, BSP is opening an iron ore mine at Rowghat, about {{convert|80|km|mi}} from [[Dalli Rajhara]] in Narayanpur District of Chhattisgarh. Accordingly, Bhilai Steel Plant will develop the mine in Block-A of Deposit-F of Rowghat with a production capacity of 14.0 MT per year during 2011-12. For environmental reasons, the beneficiation plant shall be of dry circuit type. However, the grant of forest clearance under the Forest (Conservation) Act, 1980 is still pending.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bhilai Steel Plant's Modernisation and Expansion Program Gains Momentum|url=http://www.sail.co.in/BSP_list_of_packages_in_CPFR.pdf|work=Steel Authority of India Limited|publisher=SAIL|access-date=24 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503143642/https://www.sail.co.in/BSP_list_of_packages_in_CPFR.pdf|archive-date=3 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The Bhilai steel plant has created steel for one of the Railways' most challenging projects, construction of the {{convert|345|km|mi|abbr=on}} railway line and plane network between [[Jammu]] and [[Baramulla]] at an investment of {{INRConvert|19000|c}}. BSP has also developed a special grade of TMT rebars for use in the high-altitude tunnel inside the [[Banihal Pass]]. BSP had also developed the special soft iron magnetic plates for the prestigious India-based [[Neutrino detector|Neutrino Observatory]] (INO) project of the [[Bhabha Atomic Research Centre]] (BARC). It has also developed special grade high-tensile (DMR249A) steel for building India's first indigenously built anti-submarine warfare corvette, [[INS Kamorta]]<ref name="ETimesKamorta20140712">{{cite web | title=GRSE hands over first indigenous warship, INS Kamorta to Indian Navy | url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-07-12/news/51392339_1_indian-navy-garden-reach-shipbuilders-blue-water-navy | publisher=Economic Times | date=12 July 2014 | access-date=14 July 2014}}</ref>
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