SAIL
About SAIL
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) is the largest steel-making company in India and one of the seven Maharatna’s of the country’s Central Public Sector Enterprises.
SAIL produces iron and steel at five integrated plants and three special steel plants, located principally in the eastern and central regions of India and situated close to domestic sources of raw materials. SAIL manufactures and sells a broad range of steel products.It is a fully integrated Iron and Steel maker,
producing both basic and special steel for demestic construction, engineering, power, railway,automotive and defence industries and for sale in exports market.
Ranked among the top 10 public sector companies in India in terms of turnover, SAIL manufactures and sells a
broad range of steel products, including hot and cold rolled sheets, coils, galvanised sheets, electrical sheets, structurals, railway products, plates, bars and rods, stainless steel and other alloy steel.
DVC
A few words about DVC
DVC, a legacy to the people of India, emerged as a culmination of attempts made over a whole century to control
the wild and erratic Damodar river. The river spans over an area of 25,000 sq. kms covering the states of Bihar (now Jharkhand) & West Bengal.
The Damodar Valley has been ravaged frequently by floods of varying intensities and the first of the major recorded flood dates back to 1730. Thereafter serious floods occurred at regular intervals, but it was the flood of 1943 that left the worst devastation in its wake. As a result, the Governor of Bengal appointed a Board of Inquiry headed by the Maharaja of Burdwan and the noted physicist Dr. Meghnad Saha as member. In their report, the Board suggested creation of an authority similar to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) of United States of America. The Government of India then appointed Mr. W.L. Voorduin, a senior engineer of the TVA to make recommendations for comprehensive development of the valley. Accordingly, in August, 1944, Mr. Voorduin submitted his “Preliminary Memorandum on the Unified Development of the Damodar River”.
The Corporation came into existence on the 7th July, 1948 as the first multipurpose river valley project of independent India.