New Delhi: To overcome shortage and reduce dependence
on imports, the railway minister Laloo Prasad Yadav
today announced setting up of wheel manufacturing plant
at Chhapra, his Lok Sabha constituency in Bihar.
The
wheel plant would be in addition to the plant at Bangalore
and the Durgapur Steel plant. Despite these two plants,
there is a capacity shortfall, which is estimated to
be around 60-70 thousand wheels by 2009-10.
The
major raw material for the plant was scrap steel which
was abundantly
available with Indian Railways. With the setting up
of the third plant at Chhapra, we will move a step closer
to self sufficiency, Laloo said.
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