Rourkela: The steel melting shops of Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) have surpassed the production of 100 million tonnes (MT) of crude steel. Atanu Bhowmick, RSP Director In-Charge, visited the Steel Melting Shop-I department on March 29 along with senior officials to congratulate the collective for the feat, the integrated steel plant said in a statement.

Congratulating the entire team for this achievement, Bhowmick said, "The milestone has been crossed with the efforts put in by the employees of SMS-I & II as well as all the associated units." The statement also said that it took 19 years for the RSP to produce 50 MT of crude steel.

The RSP under the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) started its journey in Odisha in January 1959, with the commissioning of the Steel Melting Shop-I, which was strengthened with Steel Melting Shop- II commencing production in 1996.

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