"There are 10 nos of steel processing units (SPUs) for which SAIL board has accorded"in-principle"approval and these are to be set up in different states,"Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma said in a reply to the Rajya Sabha.
The SPUs would be established in states like Bihar (Bettiah, Mahnar and Gaya), Assam (Guwahati), Uttar Pradesh (Lakhimpur), Jammu and Kashmir (Srinagar) and Himachal Pradesh (Kangra), the minister said.