Odisha PCB orders closure of Bhushan Steel’s new blast furnace

November 28, 2013 05:26 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 07:50 pm IST - New Delhi

UP IN ARMS: Activists of Odisha Visash Parshad staging a demonstration near Ram Mandir  in Bhubaneswar on Nov. 27, 2013 demanding resignation of concerned minister and arrest of CEO of Bhusan Steels Ltd. in connection with the recent explosion in the plant in Denkanal district. Photo: Lingaraj Panda

UP IN ARMS: Activists of Odisha Visash Parshad staging a demonstration near Ram Mandir in Bhubaneswar on Nov. 27, 2013 demanding resignation of concerned minister and arrest of CEO of Bhusan Steels Ltd. in connection with the recent explosion in the plant in Denkanal district. Photo: Lingaraj Panda

The Pollution Control Board (PCB) of Odisha has directed Bhushan Steel not to operate the second blast furnace at its Meramandali plant in Dhenkanal district till further notice.

“...the company has further received a direction of closure from the state PCB for not starting the operations of Blast Furnace No. 2 again, trial run of which started recently on November 10, 2013, till further direction...,” Bhushan Steel said in a BSE filing on Thursday.

PCB’s missive comes following an explosion on November 13 that took place at the the slag pit during the trial run of the Blast Furnace No. 2, causing at least one death and injuring 19 others.

On the basis of an inspection report of a four-member team of the Factory and Boiler Directorate, the district administration had earlier sealed the new blast furnace area of the steel plant.

“... company’s existing operational units of the steel plant at Meramandali, Odisha viz, conarc furnace, arc furnace, DRI kilns, blast furnace No. 1, coke oven, slab caster, HR mill, etc. are fully operational as earlier,” Bhushan Steel said.

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