Pradhan lays foundation stone for ore beneficiation unit in Rajhara

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Pradhan lays foundation stone for ore beneficiation unit in Rajhara

Saturday, 22 February 2020 | Staff Reporter | RAIPUR

Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Dharmendra Pradhan visited the Bhilai Steel Plants’s iron ore mines at Rajhara on his second day of Bhilai visit.

He was accompanied by Chairman, SAIL, Anil Kumar Chaudhary, Director (Commercial) Soma Mondal, Director (Personnel) Atul Srivastava, Director (Proj and Business Planning) and CEO, BSP Anirban Dasgupta, ED (Mines and Rowghat) Manas Biswas and other senior officers.

The Minister laid the foundation stone for ‘Ore Beneficiation Plant’ at the iron ore premises of Rajhara, which will augment the quality of iron ore supplied to the plant.

He also visited various mines sites of Rajhara and saw the technical and mining process of ore extraction. He planted sapling at the Saptagiri Park at Rajhara.

The minister also met the tribal students adopted by BSP at the BSP’s tribal student hostel at Rajhara and also interacted with them. It may be mentioned that these tribal students are provided with free of cost education, boarding, lodging and provided all study materials.

Pradhan also met nursing students sponsored by SAIL-BSP. Every year twenty girls from tribal region of Rowghat and Rajhara are adopted under BSP’s CSR activities for BSc Nursing at Bhilai Nursing College.

The Union minister also met the students and teachers of the English medium school run by the SAIL-BSP and DAV at Antagarh in Rowghat region.

Apart from this, he also witnessed and praised the exhibition put up by BSP of the CSR activities undertaken by the plant at Rajhara, its peripheral areas and at Rowghat. He also took stock of the CSR activities underway at the mines and also met and discussed with the representatives of worker’s unions of the mines.

Ore Beneficiation plant will enhance quality of iron ore supplied to plant by reducing silica content and gauge material from iron ore procured from Dalli mines.

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