The Salem Steel Plant of Steel Authority of India Limited has won the prestigious National Sustainability Award for the year 2010 from Indian Institute of Metals.

Mr Virbhadra Singh Indian union minister of steel on November 14 at the 48th National Metallurgists' Day celebrations in Bangalore gave away the award to Mr Pankaj Gautam ED of SSP.

The plant has also won the first prize among the Secondary Steel Plants/ Alloys Steel Plants category for the year 2010.

The Salem Steel Plant has bagged the award consecutively for the seventh time and 14th since the inception of the award in 1991.

The National Metallurgists' Day is being celebrated on November 14 every year as a tribute to the important role played by metallurgists in the industrialization and economic development of India.

(Sourced from BL)