Steel: Empowering Infrastructure in India Part 2
The 2030 Vision of Steel Authority of India, of which Bokaro Steel plant is a subsidiary company, is to expand its steel manufacturing capacity to 50 million tonnes per annum from the current output of over 21 million tons. This massive expansion drive will also expand Bokaro’s production capacity substantially from the current 4.7 million tons per annum. The importance of steel manufacturing cannot be overstated as it has a direct impact on India’s GDP as well as the important mission of Atma Nirbharta and the mission of Make in India. The capacity expansion of SAIL will be in keeping with the company's vision to transform the steel manufacturing processes and engineering practices to make steel output more efficient in terms of production as well as put in place more stringent environmental norms. In this episode of Science for a Self Reliant India, we take you on an up and close look at the massive 13500 acres Bokaro Steel Plant in Jharkhand - here our India Science team takes you to on an exclusive journey of how steel is extracted from iron ore and processed into a range of products which in-turn form the most important material used in every aspect of our lives - importantly steel is a product that can be recycled over and over again without loss of property and with its unique magnetic quality can be recovered from waste materials.
