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Bhubaneswar: Leading Capital Goods (CG) producers from across the globe inked 38 MoUs with leading Indian steel companies envisaging reduction in imports of CGs meant for the steel sector worth Rs 39,400 crore by promoting manufacturing of capital goods in the country. The MoUs were signed at a Conclave in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday which was organized by Ministry of Steel, Government of India in association with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and MECON. The National Steel Policy- 2017 envisages creation of 300 million tonnes (MT) of steel capacity in the country by 2030-31 as against existing 130 MT. The estimated import of plant and equipment, for reaching 300 MT capacity, will be around USD 25 billion. Further, for meeting the spares requirement, it is estimated that at 300 MT capacity level, India will have to spend about USD 500 million annually for import of proprietary and other spares. In his keynote address, Chief Minister of Odisha, Naveen Patna...

Rourkela, June 27:  As a part of the Swachh Bharat Mission of Government of India, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) has been observing Swachhta Pakhwada from June 16. The event will continue till June 30. A pledge taking ceremony was held at the CEO Conference hall on June 20 to mark the occasion. Ashwini Kumar, Chief Executive Officer of RSP chaired the session and also administered the pledge. Pledge taking ceremonies as well as cleaning campaigns were also held in different units in which many senior officers and employees took part. Some of the Departments are Projects, Personnel Department, Public Relations Department, HRDC, Computer hall, Hydraulic Room, Ispat General Office, CPP-I, Traffic & Raw Materials Department, Sinter Plant – II, Blast Furnace, Steel Melting Shop-I, Hot Strip Mill, Special Plate Plant, Roll Shop, New Plate Mill, Traffic & Raw Material, Zone-1, Coke Oven, Battery No. 6, Silicon Steel Mill, Cold Rolling Mill, Calcining Plant-II, Personnel C...

Bhubaneswar, Mar 18: The new managing committee of CREDAI Odisha for the term 2016-18 has been elected today in CREDAI’s extraordinary General Body meeting held at Mayfair Convention Board Room in Odisha Capital. DS Tripathy, Binay Krishna Das, Swadesh Kumar Routray and Shashi Sekhar Garabadu have been elected as Chairman, President, President (Elect) and General Secretary respectively.  Other office bearers and executive members are Partho Biswal, Susant Kumar Rout, Umesh Khandelwal- Vice Presidents, Kishore Kumar Agarwal, Pabitra Kumar Mahapatra– Joint Secretaries, Dilip Kumar Biswal - Treasurer, Anil Mohanty, Dilip Kumar Sahoo, Mohammed Alim, Sarad Baid– Executive Members. After declaration of election to the new managing committee by RN Kar, Returning Officer, Binay Krishna Das, President and Mr. Swadesh Kumar Routray, President (Elect) congratulated all members and pronounced CREDAI Odisha’s mission for enterprising innovations for Affordable Urban Housing.

Rourkela, Dec 14: Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of the Maharatna Company-SAIL has bagged the first prize in “ National Energy Conservation Award 2015 ” in Integrated Steel Plant sector for the fiscal 2014-15. The award was presented on the National Energy Conservation Day by the Ministry of Power, Government of India, in a glittering function held at Vigyan Bhawan of New Delhi on December 14. The function was presided over by Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal and Non Renewable energy. On behalf of RSP, the award was received by P Sahoo, GM (Electrical) and P K Baisakhiya, DGM (EMD). It is worth mentioning here that in its endeavour to conserve energy, RSP has taken a number of initiatives recently. As a result, the overall specific energy consumption in the plant has come down from 6.97 Giga Calorie per tonne of crude steel in 2009-10 to 6.57 Giga Calorie per tonne of crude steel in 2014-15. Notably, during the said year the spec...

Rourkela, Dec 5: S S Mohanty, Director (Technical) SAIL arrived on a two day visit to Rourkela Steel Plant RSP today. On his today’s visit to plant, he held a discussion with M K Das, ED (Projects), S K Acharya, ED (Projects), Ashwini Kumar, ED (Works) at CEO’s office regarding the production, productivity, future plans and other important aspects of functioning at RSP. Thereafter, accompanied with SK Acharya and Ashwini Kumar, Mohanty visited Blast Furnace-V. He also held a meeting with the senior officers of the Plant. Later, he visited the Slab yard, Finishing Line of New plate Mill and the site of the New Hot Strip Mill. In the afternoon, Mohanty interacted with the officers of Finance and Marketing at CEO’s Conference Hall. Later in the evening, Mohanty chaired a communication exercise on ‘Turnaround Strategy of SAIL’ at Gopabandhu Auditorium that was attended by about 500 employees from various departments of the Plant.  

Bhubaneswar, Dec 4: With an objective to provide all round platforms to its real-estate members as well as other stakeholders by facilitating their overall growth, the Odisha Chapter of Conference of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI) is going to organize Odisha’s much hyped PROPERTY EXPO at Janata Maidan here from January 21. The mega event will continue till January 24. Briefing the newsmen here today, Dillip Patra, President of CREDAI Odisha reiterates the importance as well as objective of CREDAI and its Odisha Chapter. On this years’ Expo plan, D S Tripathy, CREDAI Odisha National Member, CREDAI Governing Council Body said, “At least 120 stalls in two air-conditioned hangers with state-of-the art facilities will be installed at the event place. USP of this year’s Expo is Maximum Visibility through Media Publicity as well as Buzz through Social Media and on-ground innovations. Apart from this, there are also other attractions like celebrity presence...

Rourkela, Nov 30: In order to provide power supply for the erection, commissioning and constant uninterrupted operation of the massive expansion projects of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a number of electrical installations have been set up. The timely power supply from the three Load Block Sub-Stations namely LBSS-IV, LBSS-V and LBSS-VI to the New Coke Ovens battery– 6 Complex, New Blast Furnace– V, Ore Bedding and Blending Plant Phase-III and the New Sinter Complex, enabled the commissioning, stabilization and operations of these Units. Recently all the erection jobs and automation commissioning including Auto Bus Transfer and complete communication of all feeders to centralized Power Distribution SCADA were completed by the collective efforts of the Projects and Power Distribution departments of RSP. On 28th November, LBSS-IV 33/6.6 KV Sub-Station was inaugurated by AK Bihari, GM (Projects). This Sub-Station provides power to the New Coke Oven– 6 Complex including New...

Bhubaneswar, Sept 11: Adding to the festive fervour of celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi in the state, Odisha’s leading jewellery retail chain Khimji Jewellers has announced the launch of its ‘Ashtavinayak Collection’- a divine series of eight beautiful Ganesh gold pendants exclusively designed by Khimji Jewellers. An ode of reverence to Lord Ganesh, known as the God of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune, these eight representations of exquisite Gold Ganesh pendants come in a variety of shapes and styles including two of the designs having a rudraksh nicely set beneath the trunk of the Lord in the pendants. Appropriately named as ‘Ashtavinayak Collection’, each of the eight pendants has been exclusively designed and crafted by master craftsmen of Khimji Jewellers with 916 purity 22K gold. Each of the pendants is BIS hallmarked and comes packed in a special box created especially for this pious occasion, making it a perfect memoir. The mesmerizing ‘Ashtavinayak collection’ ...

Rourkela: Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) has achieved the highest ever Q1 production of saleable steel at 3.2 million tonnes (MT), up by 6 per cent over corresponding period last year (CPLY). In the first quarter of the current fiscal, SAIL has registered impressive growth in various production and techno-economic parameters. Production of value added steel touched the best ever Q1 mark, at 1.28 MT, a year-over-year growth of 4 per cent. Efficiency of production also got a boost with specific energy consumption at 6.57 giga calorie per tonne of crude steel, lower by 1 per cent than CPLY, and BF productivity of 1.57 t/Cum/day, better by 2 per cent. As for the month of June 2013, saleable steel production of 1.08 MT was higher by 7 per cent compared to same month last year. The Modernisation & Expansion programme (MEP) received new fillip during the quarter with the commissioning of new Coke Oven Battery No. 6 at SAIL Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP...

Rourkela: Odishi Consumer Fair organized by Rourkela Expo Event Management Group at Exhibition Ground near Bhanja Bhawan here concluded yesterday yielding a business of Rs. 1 crore. Organiser of the fair, Sanjiv Nayak, informed that the 15-day fair logged a turnover of Rs. 1 crore. As many as 90 stalls including those of Eureka Forbes, HPL CLF Bulbs, Kent Water Purifier, Cooking home appliances, Honey Wells, Tele Shopping products, Two-wheeler, Chevrolet car demo-cum-sale, Shahranpur (UP) furniture, Vodarai (UP) carpet, Rajasthani bedsheet, pickles, leather bags, ornaments and other ladies items had been put up. The expo had also stalls put up by some study centres imparting information on management studies and distance education. “Leather items like bags, belts, wallets, and other items alone accounted for a turnover of Rs. 50, 000,” said Faisal Hasan, a trader who participated in the fair. Nayak said that the first fair in the city was held in 2007, and there after t...