September 06, 2008

JSW Steel to begin work on Salboni plant in March 2008

Mr Sajjan Jindal vice CMD of JSW Steel last week announced that the construction work at the site of JSW Steel’s proposed Greenfield steel plant at Salboni in West Bengal is slated to begin in March 2008.

Mr Jindal, while discussing the progress of the project with Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee chief minister of West Bengal, said that the CM would soon request Dr Manmohan Singh, to lay the foundation stone of the project in February 2008.

He added that about 15,000 workers would be engaged during the construction period. The Industrial Training Institutes at Jhargram and Midnapore would be upgraded in a public private partnership mode to train the construction workers appropriately.

JSW is setting up t10 million tonnes capacity integrated steel plant at Salboni near Kharagpur at an estimated cumulative investment of INR 35,000 crore.