n With the first steel cluster coming up in Kalinganagar, the Government of India has appointed a working group for the cluster to work out details on the ambitious project.
The Ministry of Steel (MoS) has formed the working group, which will create concept plan for the steel cluster and it will work under atask force earlier formed by the MoS.
The task force will be chaired by the Union Secretary Steel and co-chaired by the Chief Secretary of Odisha.
In the working group, members will be Joint Secretary, Steel, Government of India, representatives of departments like Finance, Industries, Works, Idco, Power DISCOM, Water Resources of Government of Odisha.
From the industry sector, representatives of Tata Steel, Jindal Steel Limited and Neelachal Ispat Nigam Limited are taken as members.
While former Chief Secretary Bijaya Kumar Patnaik has been taken as special invitee in the working group, former CEO of Bhilai Steel Plant AK Rath is also included as special invitee.
Both Patnaik and Rath are experts in their field and as Patnaik has served as the Chief Secretary of Odisha for a long time and has been active in facilitating the industrialisation in the State, his expertise will be valuable, said sources.
The working group will identify nature and type of industries required for the cluster and mostly what type of downstream and manufacturing industries are needed to be included. An official said downstream industries like nuts, bolts, foundry, fabrication, re-rollers mills will be accommodated in the steel cluster.
What should be the size and number of units are needed to come up in cluster will be designed by the working group.
Benefits, which are to be provided to the tenants as part of the cluster, will be worked out by the group.
Land Bank and its size will be determined by the working group and development of common facilities will be worked out.The Ministry of Steel has planned steel clusters in various parts of the country. However, Kalinganagar is the first steel cluster in the country to come up on a fast-track basis.
