Union Minister for Steel, Mines, Labour & Employment, Narendra Singh Tomar inaugurated a "Heat Hardening Pelletisation Unit" at SAIL Research & Development Centre for Iron & Steel (RDCIS), Ranchi recently. This unit shall facilitate in resolving the problems being faced by Indian steel industry for beneficiation of iron ore. SAIL can now develop relevant technology parameters for producing heat hardened pellets from geothite / hematite iron ores.

Different units of biological waste water treatment plant for Coke Oven Effluent treatment were also inaugurated on the occasion. It will help SAIL and Indian steel industry to conform to the stringent norms of Environment.

While addressing the SAIL collective, Tomar said, "Steel industry is the core industry which reflects the technological status of the country and for a self-reliant India, PM's vision of "Make in India - Made in India" needs to be internalised by the erudite researchers and technologists of SAIL and steel sector."
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