Chattisgarh Industrial

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Chhattisgarh has one of the foremost industrialareas of the Country in Bhilai that housesnumerous ancillary industries around theCountry's most profitable steel plant Bhilai SteelPlant in the Public Sector.

There is a similar concentration of industries inKorba, with power plants of the National

Thermal Power Corporation, theChhattisgarh State Electricity Board andaluminum producing unit BALCO.


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The Industrial GrowthCentre in Urla, nearRaipur city is spread over334 hectares. It has 45kilometres of asphalted

roads, a water supplysystem and dedicatedpower substations.

y The Siltara GrowthCentre has future

projects include spongeiron units, ferro alloyunits, and cookinggasbottling plant.


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y The Borai IndustrialArea in Durg district is thefirst example of its type ofPrivate-Public Partnership

in industrial water supply inIndia.

y Industrial Growth Centre inSirgitti is spread over 338

hectares. It has around 202LMI & small scale units.


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yBilaspur, being a Railwayzone and the headquarters ofSouth Eastern CoalfieldsLtd., has many ancillary

units in the area.y Apart from CSIDC's

industrial areas, a privateindustrial estate has been

developed by a privatecorporate in RaigarhDistrict.


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Power

y Strategically located in central India, Chhattisgarh'slarge surplus of power can be easily transmitted

without losses to any ofIndia's four grids.

y Chhattisgarh is in the chronically deficit westerngrid, and is linked to the southern and northerngrids.

y With its 'Power Hub' strategy, the State will

remain power surplus for all times to come. Hence itwould be the preferred destination for all powerintensive industries.


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y Korba in Chhattisgarh is really the

Power Capital of India. NTPC's SuperThermal Power Plant in Korba isworking at 90% Plant Load Factor(PLF), and the plants of theChhattisgarh State ElectricityBoard (CSEB) are also highly efficient.

y There are huge coal reserves in thevicinity, offering cheap pithead powergeneration opportunities

y 84% of India's coal is in Chhattisgarhand two other States.

y There are adequate coal supplies-South Eastern Coalfields Ltd,Bilaspur is doubling its production from35 million tonnes to 70 million tonnesper annum.


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y As in the Green Revolution of the

past, which concentrated onPunjab and Haryana, the newPower Revolution may focuson cheap pithead power

producing States likeChhattisgarh, which has thepotential to produce upto50,000 MW of power.

y NTPC has already startedconstruction on its 2640 MWSipat Super Thermal Plantand another 600 MW plant in

Korba.


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y Non conventional energy

sources have been accordedvery high priority.

y A special agency calledCREDA (ChhattisgarhRenewable Energy

Development Agency) has been set up, and over 1200 villages in dense forests are being electrified using off-grid energy.

y Micro-Hydel powerpotential is also being tappedin a big way, and severalprojects have been identifiedfor viable private investment.


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Mineral Resourcesy Chhattisgarh region has abundant deposits of

natural resources.

y A variety of mineral resources are found in thisregion, diamond, gold, iron-ore, coal,corundum, bauxite, dolomite, lime, tin,

granite to name a few.y Deposits of cumberlite pipe found in

Pailikhand and Deobhog area and golddeposits in Sonakhan area of Raipur districthave evoked investor interest.

y High quality iron-ore deposits are found in

the Bailadila hill rangesas well as in Dalhi-Rajhara.

y Abundant deposits of lime stone are found inthe districts of Raipur, Bilaspur, Durg and Bastarfacilitating the growth of several large cementplants in the area.


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Conclusion:

y The economy of Chattisgarhbenefits from its Bhilai Steel Plant, S.E.C. RailwayZone, BALCO Aluminium Plant, S.E. CoalLtd. and National Thermal PowerCorporation Ltd.

y To add to it all Chattisgarh is a

mineral rich state.

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