Bhilai | Nov 22, 2017: Manjusha Uike, wife of Ramesh Kumar Uike from Village Bhaisakanhar; Kapildeo Gavde, son of Kamal from Village Chouge; Pankaj Kumar Gupta, son of Jugal Kishore Gupta from Village Podgaon; Mithila Sinha, wife of Rohit Sinha from Village Keoti; Thaneshwar Uike, son of Shiv Prada from Village Kanhargaon, Vijay Sonwani, son of Manrakhan from Village Malapara; Nandlal, son of Amar Sing from Village Tekadhodha; Gautam Kumar Mandawi, son of Bhajansingh Mandawi from Village Tekadhodha – all from Bhanupratappur Block of Kanker District, and Digvijay Singh from Village Khairwahi of Dondi Block in Balod District – are the latest from among the families identified as displaced by railway line construction from Rajhara to Rowghat Mines, to be absorbed in SAIL’s Bhilai Steel Plant.
Appointment letters for the post of ACT to the above-mentioned eight persons from Kanker district and one person from Balod district – all of whom who have undergone ITI training - were handed over by Collector of Kanker district TS Sonwani on November 19, 2017 in presence of Addl Collector, Kanker Thakur and DR Poyam, Labour Inspector, Bhilai Steel Plant, posted in Rowghat Project.
District Collector, Sonwani wished the new appointees well and expressed satisfaction at Bhilai Steel Plant’s efforts to provide employment to youth of the region. Besides the nine latest entrants, as many as 45 youths from Kanker District and 17 from Balod District who have undergone ITI training have already been absorbed in BSP as part of SAIL’s commitment to provide jobs to 177 persons from among the families identified as having been displaced by railway line construction in the two districts. Several other youths from the affected families are undergoing ITI training in ITI institutes in Bastar and Bhilai. It is worth mentioning that Bhilai Steel Plant provides a monthly stipend of Rs 2000 to each person during the ITI training. At present 36 persons are undergoing ITI training in Bastar and seven in the ITI at Bhilai.
Those absorbed in SAIL-BSP as ACTs are being posted in different shops and departments of Bhilai Steel Plant including Rail & Strl Mill, Blast Furnaces, Ore Handling Plant, Dalli-Rajhara and the Plant’s Rowghat Mining Project. The Rowghat Project is of great importance to Bhilai. Ore reserves of existing Dalli-Rajhara Mines are fast depleting and to meet the increased requirement of Iron ore after capacity expansion, SAIL-BSP is developing Rowghat iron ore mine, about 85 kms from Rajhara. While all activities to clear the ground for setting up new mining facilities, including construction of road to mine-head & phase-wise laying of rail line are being expedited, an agreement for engagement of MDO (Mines Developer and Operator) for development & operation of 14 Million Tonnes per annum (MTPA) Iron Ore mines at Rowghat – Chhattisgarh was signed on 25th Sept 2017.
Meantime, BSP has been undertaking CSR activities on a large scale in the region surrounding Rowghat mines area. These include arranging medical camps, setting up dispensaries, adoption of children from the region for admission in BSP schools at Rajhara, setting up an English Medium school in Antagarh and adoption of as many as 20 girls every year from the region for admission in Nursing College in Bhilai. The Plant is also providing infrastructure support in the form of digging bore-wells, providing electricity through solar energy, building roads and bridges etc.
(Source: http://thehitavada.com/)