India: 12 steel plants with 60 mnt/year capacity to come up in Odisha – Govt sources

Odisha currently has 51 steel plants with a production capacity of 33.12 mnt/year. There are plans to add 12 more plants boosting the capacity by another 60 mnt/year, government sources informed. Three plants in Sundargarh, two in Jajpur, and one each in Angul, Kendrapada, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar and Jagatsinghpur districts are being planned. AM/NS has proposed 24 mnt greenfield expansion in Kendrapada, while JSW will build a 12 mnt steel plant in Jagatsinghpur.