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NMDC board okays demerger of three-mn-tonne Chhattisgarh steel plant

The plant is the only greenfield project slated for commissioning in the near term. Sources said it would have been commissioned by now had it not been for Covid-19

NMDC Limited, Diamond Mining Project, Panna Photo courtesy: www.nmdc.co.in
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The NMDC stock was up by 11.98 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and closed at Rs 107.50.

Ishita Ayan Dutt Kolkata
India’s single largest iron ore producer, state-owned NMDC, said on Friday that its board had approved a proposal to demerge NMDC Iron & Steel Plant (NISP).

The board met on Thursday and accorded in-principle approval to the proposal to demerge NISP at Nagarnar in Chhattisgarh, the company informed stock exchanges today.

The three-million-tonne (mt) steel plant is the only greenfield project slated for commissioning in the near term. Sources familiar with the matter said that the plant would have been commissioned by now had it not been for the Covid-19 pandemic.

“There are two major problems – one is, lack

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