GK Question: Important Steel Plant in India
Steel Plants under Steel
Authority of India Ltd
1. Bhilai Steel Plant: Chattisgarh
2. Bokaro Steel Plant: Jharkhand
3. Durgapur Steel Plant: West Bengal
4. IISCO Steel Plant, Burnpur: West Bengal
5. Rourkela Steel Plant: Orissa
6. Salem Steel Plant: Tamilnadu
7. Visvesvaraya Steel Plant, Bhadravati:
Karnataka
Other Steel plant:
1. Visakhapatnam Steel Plant: Andhra Pradesh
2. Bhushan Steel Ltd: Sahibabad (U.P.),
Khopoli (Mah), Dhenkanal (Odisha)
3. Essar Steel: Hazira, Gujarat
4. Jindal Steel and Power Ltd: Raigarh, Chhattisgarh
5. JSW Steel: Vijayanagar, Karnataka
6. Tata Steel Ltd: Jamshedpur, Jharkhand
Note:
1. Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is India's first
shore-based integrated steel plant.
2. The largest producer of steel in the world is
Arcelor Mittal headquartered at Luxembourg.
3. The largest producer of steel in India is
Tata Steel followed by Steel Authority of India Ltd.
4. Rourkela Steel Plant was set up with German
collaboration.
5. India is the fourth largest producer of crude
steel in the world.
6. Durgapur Steel Plant was set up with the
collaboration of the United Kingdom.
7. Bhilai And Bokaro Steel Plants were set up with Soviet collaboration.