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Upcoming Major Units:
Aso Cement Ltd. (Cement (expansion))
Century Iron & Steel
Mittal Ferro Cast Pvt. Ltd
Other upcoming projects in Kharagpur
A Biotech Park on 300 acres of land is proposed in Kharagpur, with the assistance of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. Other projects such as the proposed Iron and Steel Parks at Kharagpur and Guptamani as well as the auto components and IT SEZs will add significantly to the industrial prominence of this region.
WBIDC has initiated steps to set up Iron & Steel Parks at Kharagpur and Guptamoni in West Midnapur district. WBIDC has identified 300 acres of land at Kharagpur and is in the process of acquiring it. It has also identifi ed 2,500 acres of land at Guptamoni to set up a Mega Iron and Steel Park. The site is adjacent to NH-6.
JSW Steel plans to set up a 10 million tonne steel plant at Guptamuni near Kharagpur over an area of 5,000 acres with an investment of $2.2 billion. In the first phase, it would install a 4 million tonne plant along with a 1,000 MW thermal power unit. The capacity of the steel plant would be raised to 10 million tonnes in the second phase.
Kharagpur is the largest integrated workshop on IR with facilities to service all types of rolling stock and locomotives. The workshop is spread over an area of 610,000 square meters, 260,000 of which are covered, the workshop handles POH for Diesel-Electric and Electric locomotives, EMU trailer and Motor coaches, freight wagons, coaches and even Diesel cranes. Besides this, it carries out rewinding of traction motors and traction generators and a lot of other related work. The massive workshop underwent massive modernization in 1979 and again in 1985 with a combined outlay of around 400 million rupees.
First wagon prototyping centre will be set up at Kharagpur which will develop new designs of wagons. The Indian Railways will set up IIT-Kharagpur's (IIT-KGP)
