The NMDC state metal plant in Nagarnar, Chhattisgarh, faces delays in commissioning due to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior corporate official said.
Now the metal plant, which also failed to meet its final touch program before, is expected to take a year to start production.
The National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) planned to start metal production at its Nagarnar plant for the first time in July 2019, but it did not, and the commissioning time lasted until 2020.
NMDC President and Outgoing CEO N Baijendra Kumar told PTI: “Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, staff have returned (to villages) and, due to restrictions, experts cannot go to India for some tests at the site. Array Kumar will retire.” July 31 and Sumit Deb will succeed.
NMDC, the sponsorship of the Ministry of Steel, is installing its first metal factory with a capacity of 3 million tons according to the year (MTPA) in Nagarnar, in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, at a cost of approximately 20 billion rupees. This is an ambitious allocation of the country’s largest iron ore miner, as it would mark NMDC’s foray into the domestic metal developing sector.
As for the project’s schedules, Kumar said it should be completed by July 2020, but “now it will take another year.”
The CMD stated that in addition to the labor problems, there are other points such as the machinery used in the plant will have to be imported.
Kumar stated that after the COVID-19 outbreak, experts from European countries such as Denmark and Austria simply do not come and conduct some mandatory tests before the plant is launched.
After the coronavirus was blocked in March, the structure of the plant stopped completely.
Work did not resume until April after the government announced new rules for the time phase of the lockout. According to the regulations, the structured activity is legal from April 20 with strict security measures.
A corporate official said there were between 10,000 and 12,000 employees interested in the structure of the plant, but as almost part of them are available, the progress of the paintings is incredibly slow and will take months.
Previously, the plant had experienced delays in commissioning due to local unrest due to privatization negotiations and BHEL’s inability to complete uncooked management.
The indexed plant as a public sector company aligned through the Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) for strategic divestment.
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