Soma Mondal arrives on her maiden visit to Dalli-Rajhara Iron Ore Complex
Central Chronicle News
Bhilai, Jun 11: Chairman SAIL, Soma Mondal arrived on her maiden visit to Bhilai Steel Plant as Chairman on Friday, June 11, 2021. Upon her arrival at Raipur airport, she was welcomed by Director I/c SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant, Anirban Dasgupta and other senior officials of SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant.
Chairman SAIL is accompanied by HN Rai, Director (Technical, Projects & Raw Materials), SAIL, Devdas, Executive Director (Operations) SAIL and senior officials from Chairman’s Secretariat, SAIL.
From Raipur airport, Chairman SAIL, headed straight for Bhilai Steel Plant’s Dalli-Rajhara Iron Ore Complex. At Rajhara Guest House, she was welcomed by Executive Director (Materials Management) Rakesh, ED (Projects) AK Bhatta, CGM I/c Mines & Rowghat, Tapan Sutradhar, CGM (Rowghat Mines), CGM (CET) Anurag Upadhyay and other senior officials of the Plant and Mines Department.
Accompanied by Director I/c SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant, Anirban Dasgupta and other senior officials of the Plant and Mines, Soma Mondal visited the sites of two important projects coming up at Dalli Mechanised Mines. Chairman SAIL first visited the site for the upcoming expansion project of Modification in Washing Circuit of Crushing Screening & Washing Plant (CSWP) with silica reduction facility where she took stock of the progress.
With the depletion of iron ore reserves in all the mines of IOC, the quality of iron ore has deteriorated. Reduction in silica content in iron ore will enable gainful use of sub-grade iron ore by enhancing the quality of ore and thereby help improve production and productivity in the steel plant.
Chairman SAIL, Soma Mondal also laid the foundation stone for the upcoming 1 MTPA Pellet Plant being set up on Build Own Operate (BOO) basis. The pellet plant will enable conversion of large volumes of slime lying at the bottom of Hitkasa tailing pond at Dalli Rajhara into pellets that would be used for hot metal production in the Plant. She also visited the mining areas in Dalli Rajhara.
Chairman SAIL later met Mines Union representatives and public representatives. Chairman SAIL then viewed a presentation on Performance of Mines where she interacted at length with senior officers of Mines about present performance and future plans. Director I/c SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant, Anirban Dasgupta and other senior officers of the Plant & Mines Dept were present.