Railways global tender eludes Bhilai plant

BSP has been supplying rails to IR for over five decades

Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)-owned Bhilai steel plant (BSP) is itself to blame that it will not be ready to participate in the forthcoming global tender by the Indian Railways (IR) for procurement of head-hardened rails. The development is taking place soon after the commissioning of long-delayed universal rail mill (URM) at Bhilai as an important component of SAIL’s Rs72,000-crore modernisation and expansion programme. Bhilai URM now going through ramping up of capacity will in course of time make head-hardened rails, but not soon enough to be able bid for orders from IR in the near future for this