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Bokaro Steel Plant is located in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand. It is the fourth integrated public sector steel plant in India built with Soviet help. It was incorporated as a limited company in 1964. It was later merged with the state-owned Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).〔(Steel Authority Of India Limited )〕 Currently it houses five blast furnaces with a total capacity to produce 4.5 MT of liquid steel. The plant is undergoing a mass modernisation drive after which its output capacity is expected to cross 10 MT. The first shop of Bokaro Steel Plant got the ISO 9001 certification away back in 1994, and its SAIL JYOTI products enjoy a loyal market. The plant's yearly profit stood at for the financial year 2003–04 and has increased every year since then reaching to 84.26 billion INR in the financial year 2007–08. ==History== Bokaro Steel Plant, the fourth integrated plant in the Public Sector, started taking shape in 1965 in collaboration with the Soviet Union. It was originally incorporated as a limited company on 29 January 1964, and was later merged with SAIL, first as a subsidiary and then as a unit, through the Public Sector Iron & Steel Companies (Restructuring & Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1978. The construction work started on 6 April 1968. The Plant is hailed as the country’s first Swadeshi steel plant, built with maximum indigenous content in terms of equipment, material and know-how. Its first Blast Furnace started on 2 October 1972 and the first phase of 1.7 MT ingot steel was completed on 26 February 1978 with the commissioning of the third Blast Furnace. All units of 4 MT stage have already been commissioned and the 90s' modernisation has further upgraded this to 4.5 MT of liquid steel. The new features added in modernisation of SMS-II include two twin-strand slab casters along with a Steel Refining Unit. The Steel Refining Unit was inaugurated on 19 September 1997 and the Continuous Casting Machine on 25 April 1998. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bokaro Steel Plant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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