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The '''Bhilai Steel Plant''' ('''BSP'''), located in [[Bhilai]], in the Indian state of [[Chhattisgarh]], is [[India]]'s first and main producer of [[steel]] rails, as well as a major producer of wide steel plates and other steel products. The plant also produces steel and markets various chemical by-products from its [[coke oven]]s and coal chemical plant. It was set up with the help of the USSR in 1955.<ref name="steel plant 1">{{cite web|title=The Bhilai Steel Plant|url=http://www.fieldtofactory.lse.ac.uk/SteelPlantHistory.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030405121223/http://www.fieldtofactory.lse.ac.uk/SteelPlantHistory.htm|archive-date=5 April 2003|access-date=24 June 2012|work=Field to Factory: Film and ethnography of industrialisation in Chhattisgarah, Central India|publisher=Jandarshan and LSE}}</ref>
Up to the 4th November, 1959, 1162 Soviet personnel have been brought for the Bhilai Steel Project on the
following salaries;
* 7 Chief Engineers 4,500 Rs
* 37 Leading Specialists 2,850 Rs
* 141 Specialists at 2,400 Rs
* 266 Technical leading Foremen 2,200 Rs
* 70 Interpictus at 1950 Rs
* 114 Foremen 1 800 Rs
<ref>https://eparlib.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/1826/1/lsd_02_09_18-11-1959.pdf page 52 </ref>
Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) is eleven-time winner of the Prime Minister's Trophy for best integrated steel plant in the country.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.sail.co.in/sail-press-release/prime-minister-hands-over-pms-trophy-best-integrated-steel-plant-country-bhilai | title=Prime Minister hands over PM'S Trophy for best Integrated Steel Plant in the Country to BHILAI Steel Plant | publisher=SAIL | date=4 February 2015 | access-date=26 January 2019 | archive-date=2 November 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191102120119/https://www.sail.co.in/sail-press-release/prime-minister-hands-over-pms-trophy-best-integrated-steel-plant-country-bhilai | url-status=dead }}</ref> The plant is the sole supplier of the country's longest railway tracks, which measure {{convert|260|m}}.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/indl-goods/svs/steel/bhilai-steel-records-its-best-ever-loading-for-dispatch-to-indian-railways/articleshow/59426278.cms|title=Bhilai Steel records its best ever loading for dispatch to Indian Railways|newspaper=The Economic Times|access-date=30 December 2017|last1=Mazumdar|first1=Rakhi}}</ref> The 130 - meter rail, which would be the world's longest rail line in a single piece, was rolled at URM, Bhilai Steel Plant (SAIL) on 29 November 2016.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/sail-bsp-starts-production-of-world-s-longest-single-piece-rail-116113000455_1.html | title=SAIL-BSP starts production of world's longest single-piece rail | date=30 November 2016 | newspaper=Business Standard | first=R Krishna | last=Das | access-date=26 January 2019 }}</ref> The plant also produces products such as wire rods and merchant products. Bhilai Steel Plant has been the flagship integrated steel plant unit of the Public Sector steel company, the [[Steel Authority of India Limited]] and is its largest and most profitable production facility. It is the flagship plant of SAIL, contributing the largest percentage of profit.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/new-generation-rails-will-be-bhilai-steel-s-crown-jewel-113070101084_1.html | title=New generation rails will be Bhilai Steel's crown jewel | date=1 July 2013 | newspaper=Business Standard | first=Kunal | last=Bose | access-date=26 January 2019 }}</ref>
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