Place · public-sector steel township · India
Bokaro Steel City
Bokaro Steel City, built on the Damodar river coal and iron belt from 1964 under Soviet technical collaboration (the fourth integrated public-sector steel plant after Rourkela, Bhilai and Durgapur), produces about four million tonnes of carbon steel a year and is laid out on the model of Chandigarh — numbered sectors on an orthogonal grid, with the plant to the south, the township of eight sectors across the Chira Chas highway, and the Garga reservoir between them. Along with Jamshedpur, Bokaro and the neighbouring Dhanbad-Jharia coalfields anchor the industrial southeast of Jharkhand and were the engines of the Bihar state economy before the 2000 bifurcation.
- Function
- Trade & production
- Patron dynasty
- Government of India
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 23.669, 86.151
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- Site adjacencyJamshedpur
Bokaro Steel City and Jamshedpur are the two planned industrial townships of eastern India's coal-and-iron corridor on the Damodar and Subarnarekha rivers — Jamshedpur the private-sector Tata plant founded in 1908, Bokaro the fourth public-sector Steel Authority of India plant commissioned in 1964 with Soviet collaboration. The ninety kilometres between them along the Chotanagpur plateau is India's densest zone of integrated steel production. Both townships were laid out on orthogonal grids with sector numbering, the plant to one side and the township to the other, and both predate the formation of the Jharkhand state.
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