FUNDS
FOR TECHNOLOGY UPGRADATION OF SAIL
LOK SABHA
During the 10th
Plan, SAIL has planned capital expenditure of about Rs. 5000 crore
for addition, modification and replacement schemes which are mainly
for maintaining the health of the plants. The major projects of
the 10th Plan mainly includes long rails facilities
and billets caster at Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP); finishing mill
and bloom caster at Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP); continuous casting
facilities at Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL); upgradation ERW pipe plant
at Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP); revamping of cold rolling mills
at BSL and RSP; and rebuilding of coke oven batteries.
At present, there
are 20 ongoing projects of about Rs. 629 crore which are in progress.
The major ongoing projects include upgradation of Electrical Resistance
Welded (ERW) Pipe Plant at RSP, long rails facilities at BSP and
reheating furnace No. 2 at BSL. Further, at present there are
13 projects, which have been approved ‘in-principle’. Such major
projects include rebuilding of coke oven battery No. 1 at RSP
and rebuilding of coke oven battery No. 5 at BSL. Besides, the
other major AMR projects planned to be considered in future, depending
upon funds availability and techno-economics shall be mainly as
per 10th plan.
The amount spent
during 2002-03 (i.e. 1st year of 10th plan)
till October, 2002 is Rs. 107 crore as against the Revised Estimate
(RE:2002-03) of Rs. 350 crore.
This information
was given by the Minister for Steel Shri Braja Kishore Tripathy
in reply to a question from Shri Basudeb Acharia in the Lok Sabha
today.
