Tata Steel's Gopalpur SEZ attracts investors in gems & jewellery, apparel, mineral processing

Kolkata : Tata Steel's multi-product Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Gopalpur has attracted downstream investments in sectors like auto components, gems & jewellery, apparel, speciality chemicals, ores and minerals processing, logistics and warehousing and marine food processing. This was informed by minister for industries, steel & mines and parliamentary affairs Raghunath Mohanty in response to a query in the state assembly.

"The Centre has already granted in-principle approval for Tata Steel's multi-product SEZ at Gopalpur. Presently, boundary wall construction and road construction at the project site is going on. Tata Steel is developing an industrial park at Gopalpur wherein they will be building a 0.4 million tonne per annum steel rebar mill, 55,000 tonne per annum ferro chrome plant and 1,2 million gallons per day desalination plant at a cost of Rs 1,000 crore", Mohanty said.