Particulars of Organization, Functions and Duties

Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP), the first coast based Steel Plant of India is located, 16 KM South West of city of Destiny i.e. Visakhapatnam. Bestowed with modern technologies, VSP has an installed capacity of 3 million Tonnes per annum of Liquid Steel and 2.656 million Tonnes of saleable steel.   At VSP there is em­phasis on total automation, seamless integration and efficient up gradation, which result in wide range of long and structural products to meet stringent demands of discerning customers within India and abroad. VSP products meet exacting Interna­tional Quality Standards such as JIS, DIN, BIS, BS etc.

VSP has become the first integrated Steel Plant in the country to be certified to all the three international standards for quality (ISO-9001), for Environment Management (ISO-14001) & for Occupational Health & Safety (OHSAS-18001). The certificate covers quality systems of all Operational, Maintenance and Service units besides Purchase systems, Training and Market­ing functions spreading over 4 Regional Marketing Offices, 24 branch offices and stock yards located all over the country.

VSP by successfully installing & operating efficiently Rs. 460 crores worth of Pollution Control and Environment Control Equipments and converting the barren landscape by planting more than 3 million plants has made the Steel Plant, Steel Town­ship and surrounding areas into a heaven of lush greenery. This has made Steel Township a greener, cleaner and cooler place, which can boast of 3 to 4° C lesser temperature even in the peak summer compared to Visakhapatnam City.

VSP exports Quality Pig Iron & Steel products' to Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Middle East, USA, China and South East Asia. RINL-VSP was awarded "Star Trading House" status during 1997-2000. Having established a fairly dependable ex­port market, VSP plans to make a continuous presence in the export market.

Having a total manpower of about 16,600 VSP has en­visaged a labour productivity of 265 Tonnes per man year of Liq­uid Steel.

BACKGROUND

With a view to give impetus to Industrial growth and to meet the aspirations of the people from Andhra Pradesh, Govern­ment of India decided to establish Integrated Steel Plant in Public Sector at Visakhapatnam (AP). The announce­ment to this effect was made in the Parliament on 17th April' 1970 by the then Prime Minister of India late Smt. Indira Gandhi.

A site was selected near Balacheruvu creak near Visakhapatnam city by a Committee set up for the purpose, keep­ing in view the topographical features, greater availability of land and proximity to a future port. The foundation stone for the plant was laid by Smt. Gandhi on 20.01.1971.

Seeds were thus sown for the construction of a modern & sophisticated Steel Plant having annual capacity of 3.4 Million Tonnes of hot metal. An agreement was signed between Gov­ernments of India and the erstwhile USSR on June 12th, 1979 for setting up of an Integrated Steel Plant to produce structural & long products on the basis of detailed Project report prepared by M/s M.N. Dastur & Company. A Comprehensive revised DPR jointly prepared by Soviets & M/s Dastur & Company was submit­ted in Nov' 1980 to Govt. of India.

The construction of the Plant started on 1st February 1982. Government of India on 18th February 1982 formed a new Com­pany called Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (RINL) and transferred the responsibility of constructing, commissioning & operating the Plant at Visakhapatnam from Steel Authority of India Ltd. to RINL.

Due to poor resource availability, the construction could not keep pace with the plans which led to appreciable revision of the plant cost. In view of the critical fund situation and need to check further increase in the plant costs, a rationalized concept was approved which was to cost Rs. 6849 crores based on 4th Quarter of 1988.

 The rationalized concept was based on obtaining the maximum output from the equipments already installed, planned / ordered for procurement and achieving higher levels of opera­tional efficiency and labour productivity. Thus the plant capacity was limited to 3.0 Million tonnes of Liquid Steel per annum. In the process, one of the Steel Melt Shops and one of the mills were curtailed.

The availability of resources were continued to be lower than what was planned and this further delayed the completion of the construction of the plant. Finally all the units were con­structed and commissioned by July' 92 at a cost of Rs. 8529 crores. The plant was dedicated to nation by the then prime Minister of India Late Sri P. V. Narasimha Rao on 1st August, 1992.

Since Commissioning VSP has already crossed many milestones in the fields of production, productivity & exports. Coke rate of the order of 509 Kg/Ton of Hot metal, average convertor life of 2864 heats an average of 23.6 heats per sequence in continuous Bloom Caster. Specific energy consumption of   6.07 G Kal / ton of liquid steel, a specific refractory consumption of 8.94 kg and a labour productivity of 265 Ton / man year are some of the peaks achieved (during the year 2004-05) in pursuit of excellence.

VSP Technology: State-of-the-Art

• 7 meter tall Coke Oven Batteries with coke dry quenching. Biggest Blast Furnaces in the Country
• Bell - less top charging system in Blast Furnace
• 100% slag granulation at the BF Cast House
• Suppressed combustion - LD gas recovery system
• 100% continuous casting of liquid steel.
• "Tempcore" and "Stelmor" cooling process in LMMM & WRM respectively
• Extensive waste heat recovery systems
• Comprehensive pollution control measures

Major Sources of Raw Materials

Major Units 

Main Products of VSP

MAJOR DEPARTMENTS

Raw Material Handling Plant
VSP annually requires quality raw materials viz. Iron Ore, fluxes (Lime stone, Dolomite), coking and non coking coals etc. to the tune of 12-13 Million Tonnes for producing 3 Million Tonnes of Liquid Steel. To handle such a large volume of incoming raw materials received from different sources and to ensure timely supply of consistent quality of feed materials to different VSP consumers, Raw Material Handling Plant serves a vital function. This unit is provided with elaborate unloading, blending, stack­ing & reclaiming facilities viz. Wagon Tipplers, Ground & Track Hoppers, Stock yards Crushing plants, Vibrating screens, Single/ twin boom stackers, wheel on boom and Blender reclaimers, Stacker – cum – Reclaimer (SCR). In VSP peripheral unloading has been adopted for the first time in the country.

Coke ovens & Coal Chemical Plant (CO&CCP)
Blast Furnaces, the mother units of any Steel plant re­quire huge quantities of strong, hard and porous solid fuel in the form of hard metallurgical coke for supplying necessary heat for carrying out the reduction and refining reactions besides acting as a reducing agent. At VSP there are three Coke Oven Batteries, 7 Metre tall and having 67 Ovens each. Each oven is having a volume of 41.6 cu. metre & can hold upto 31.6 Tonnes of dry coal charge. There are 3 Coke Dry Cooling Plants (CDCP) each having 4 cooling chambers. Nitrogen gas is used as the Cooling medium. The heat recovery from nitrogen is done by generating steam and expanding in two back pressure turbines to produce 7.5 MW each.
The Coal chemicals such as Benzole (& its products), Tar (& its products), Ammonium Sulphate etc. are extracted in Coal Chemical Plant from C.O. Gas. After recovering the Coal chemicals the gas is used as a by product fuel by mixing it with gases such as BF Gas, LD Gas etc. A mechanical, biological & chemical treatment plant takes care of the effluents.

Sinter Plant
Sinter is a hard & porous ferrous material obtained by agglomeration of Iron Ore fines, Coke breeze, Lime Stone fines, Metallurgical wastes viz. Flue dust, mill scale, LD slag etc. Sinter is a better feed material to Blast Furnace in com­parison to Iron Ore lumps and its usage in Blast furnaces help in increasing productivity, decreasing the coke rate & improving the quality of Hot Metal produced. Hot Sinter discharged from Sintering machine is crushed to +5 mm - 50 mm size and cooled before dispatching to Blast Furnaces.
Parameters of Sintering Machines are

• Effective area       :312 Sq. metre
• Sintering area      :276 Sq. metre
• Sinter bed height  :300 mm
• Capacity              :450 T P H each

The dust laden air from the machines are cleaned in scrubbers & electrostatic precipitators to reduce the dust con­tent to 100 mg/ m3 level before allowing to escape into the atmo­sphere and thus helping in maintaining a clean & dust free environment.

Blast Furnaces
VSP has two 3200 cu. metre Blast Furnaces (largest in India) equipped with Paulworth Bell less top equipment with con­veyor charging. Rightly named as "Godavari" & "Krishna" after the two rivers of AP, the furnaces will help VSP in bringing prosperity to the state of Andhra Pradesh.
Provision exists for granulation of 100% liquid slag at blast furnace cast house and utilization of blast furnace gas top pressure (1.5-2.0 atmospheric pressure) to generate 12 MW of power in each furnace by employing gas expansion turbines. The two furnaces with their novel circular cast house and four tap holes each are rated to produce 9720 tonnes of Hot Metal daily or 3.4 Million Tonnes of low sulphur Hot Metal annually.

Steel Melt Shop
VSP produces steel employing three numbers of top blown Oxygen Convertors called LD Convertors or Basic Oxygen Furnaces / Convertors. Each con­vertor is of 133 cu. Metre volume, rated to produce 3 Million Tonnes of Liquid Steel annually. Besides Hot Metal, Steel Scrap, Fluxes such as calcined lime or Dolomite form part of the charge to the Convertors.
Different grades of steel of Superior quality can be made by this process by controlling the Oxygen blow or addition of various ferro alloys or special additives such as FeSi, FeMn, Si­Mn, Coke Breeze, Aluminum etc. in required quantities while liq­uid steel is being tapped from the convertor into a steel ladle. Convertor / LD Gas produced as by product is used as a secondary fuel.

Characteristics of VSP Convertors:

• Capacity                       : 150 Tones per heat blow
• Volume                         : 133 Cu. Metre
• Convertor Sp. Volume   : 0.886 Metre Cube per tonne
• Tap to Tap Time            : 45 mts - 60 mts 

        Liquid Steel produced in LD Convertors is solidified in the form of blooms in continuous Bloom Casters. However, to homogenize the steel and to raise its temperature, if needed, steel is first routed through, Argon rinsing station, IRUT ( Injec­tion Refining & Up temperature ) / ladle Furnaces.

Continuous casting Department
VSP has six-4 strand continuous casting ma­chines capable of producing 2.82 million Tonnes / year Blooms of size 250 x 250 mm and 250 x 320 mm. Entire quantity of molten steel produced (100%) is continuously cast in radial bloom cast­ers which help in energy conservation as well as production of superior quality products. Facilities at continuous casting machines include a lift and Turn table for ladles, Copper mould, oscillating system tundish, Primary & Secondary Cooling arrangement to cool the steel bloom. Gas cutting machines for cutting the blooms in required lengths ( Av. 6 metres long ).

Rolling Mills
Blooms produced in SMS-CCD  are  shaped into products  such  as Billets, rounds, squares, angles (equal & unequal),  Chan­nels,  I-PE Beams,  HE  Beams, Wire rods and reinforcements bars by rolling them  in three  sophisticated  high capacity, high speed,  fully  automated  rolling mills,  namely  Light & Medium  Merchant  Mills (LMMM), Wire  Rod  Mill (WRM) and  Medium  Merchant  and  Structural  Mill (MMSM).

Light & Medium Merchant Mill (LMMM)
LMMM comprises of two units. In the Billet/Break down mill 250 x 320 mm size blooms are rolled into Billets of 125 x 125 mm size. Billets are supplied from this mill to Bar Mill of LMMM & Wire Rod Mill. The Bar mill is facilitated with temp core heat treatment tech­nology evaporative cooling system in walking beam furnaces, automated pilling & bundling facilities, high degree of automa­tion and computerization. The mill is designed to produce 710,000 tons per an­num of various finished products such as rounds, rebars, squares, flats, angles, and channels besides billets for sale.

Wire Rod Mill (WRM)
Wire Rod Mill is fully automated & sophisticated mill. The billets are rolled in 4 strand, high speed continuous mill having a capacity of 8,50,000 Tonnes of Wire Rod Coils. The mill produces rounds in 5.5 - 14 mm range and rebars in 8, 10 & 12 mm sizes. The mill is equipped with standard and Retarded Stelmore controlled cooling lines for producing high quality Wire rods in Low, Medium & High carbon grade meeting the stringent National & International stan­dards viz. BIS, DIN, JIS, BS etc. and having high ductility, uni­form grain size, excellent surface finish.

Medium Merchant & Structural Mill (MMSM)
This mill is a high capacity continuous mill. The feed material to the mill is 250 x 250 mm size blooms, which is heated to rolling temperatures of 1200 °C in two walking beam furnaces. The mill is designed to produce 8,50,000 tons per annum of various products such as rounds, squares, flats, angles (equal & unequal), T bars, channels, IPE beams I HE beams (Universal beams)

AUXILIARY FACILITIES

Thermal Power Plant
The average power demand of all units of VSP when operating at full capacity will be around 230 MW. The captive Generation capacity of 286.5 MW is sufficient to meet all the plant needs in normal operation time. In case of partial outage of Captive Generation Capacity due to brake down/ shutdown/ or other reasons, the short fall of power is availed from State Grid.  The Captive Generation capacity comprises of

• TPP                                            :  247.5 MW (3 X 60 MW + 1 X 67.5 MW)
• Back Pressure Turbines (C&CCD) :  2 X 7.5 MW
• Gas Expansion Turbines (BF)        :  2 x 12 MW

Power plant also meets the Air Blast requirement of Blast Furnaces through 3 Turbo Blowers each of 6067 NM3/hr capacity.
In addition to the above, Power Plant also supply process steam, DM Water, Chilled Water, Soft Water to various units of VSP.

DNW Department
Distribution network (DNW) Department deals with receipt, transmission of electrical power at Extra High Voltage (EHV) 220 KV level, distribution of High Tension (HT) power at 33 KV, 11 KV and 6.6 KV level. Operation and maintenance of power handling equipment at 220 KV and maintenance of equipment at 33 KV, 11 KV and 6.6 KV (except for shop HVMCC & contractors) is carried out by the department. Operation of shop HT equipment and operation & maintenance of shop LT power distribution equipment are in the scope of respective shops. DNW department also coordinates with AP TransCo. and APEPDCL for export and import of power respectively.

Traffic Department
A Steel plant of the size of VSP has to handle around 60-65 MT traffic comprising of incoming traffic ( different raw materials etc. ), outgoing traffic   (finished / saleable steel products, pig iron, granulated slag, byproducts etc.) and in process traffic viz. Cast P I, Mill scrap, Mill scale, hot metal, etc.
Of this 50% is transported by belt conveyors, 45% by Rail Transport and 5% by Road. VSP has the distinction of hav­ing peripheral unloading system for the 1st time in Steel Industry.
To handle this huge quantities of traffic, VSP has a fleet of 31 locomotives, Hot Metal ladle cars, Torpedo ladle cars, Captive wagons of different types, 5 internal Railway stations, loco and wagon repair shop, number of weigh bridges.

Engineering shops & Foundry (ES & F)
Engineering Shops are set up to meet the requirements of Ferrous & Non Ferrous spares of different departments. This complex is divided into 1. Forge Shop, 2. Structural shop, 3. Foundry, 4. Central Machine Shop, 5. Wood Working Shop and  6. Utility Equipment Repair Shop (UERS).
The Forge shop is designed for production of shafts, coupling flanges etc. and also of forge shapes such as crusher hammer heads, special bolts, nuts etc. In the Structural shops the fabricated structural of about 4500 tonnes are produced annually and the input consisting of sheets, plates, channels, angles beams etc.
In Foundry Iron castings upto a weight of 5 tons and non ferrous casting upto a weight of 1 ton are produced. 2600 tonnes of iron castings and 200 tones of non ferrous castings are produced annually. In steel foundry, steel casting upto maximum piece weight of 10T is produced. Steel ingots upto 1.3 tonnes for forging are also produced.
In the Central Machine Shop, various spares are made. The machining section has over 100 major machine tools in­cluding lathes, milling, boring, planning, sloting, shapping, grind­ing and other machines. The Wood working Shop manufactures patterns for foundries. The shop will require 300 Cu.m. per year of wooden patterns.
In Utility Equipment Repair Shop, The Repair of ventila­tion, air conditioning and water supply equipment is carried out.

Central Maintenance Electrical

Maintenance of all H.T motors, L.T motors and DC motors of above 200KW. There are 810 such large rotating electrical machines spread through out the plant including 3 Nos. of 60 MW Turbo-Generators, 1 No of 67.5M TG in TPP, 2 nos of Back Pressure Turbo Generators of 7.5 MW each and 2 Nos. of Gas Expansion Turbo- Generator of 12 MW each. The service provided are as mentioned below.

• Repairs, Maintenance and condition monitoring of all rotating Electrical machines of the plant. The job includes transportation, Overhauling and re-erection with precision alignment.
• Maintenance of Electrics of all street  lights, Tower lights  and  Weigh Bridges through out the plant.

Electro Technical Laboratory

• Repairs all the defective electronic PCBs which are taken out from the equipment during their functioning.
• Procures and arranges spare PCB’s for the equipment of PLC’s and drive controls for motors in the plant and also for UPS systems.
• Involves in the plant modernisation activities and upgradation of equipment.

Electrical Repair Shop (ERS)
ERS is a central repair shop to carry out repair activities like overhauling, rewinding, testing etc., of various types of AC Motors, DC Motors, HT Motors, Submersible pumps, Distribution transformers, Welding Machines, Control Transformers, Lifting magnets, Coils etc., of the plant.
The Main Functions of ERS are:

• Overhauling of motors
• Rewinding of motors, magnets, transformers, pumps, coils etc.
• Testing of Electrical equipment
• Emergency Site Repairs
• Performance assessment of electrical motors

Utilities Department
Utilities dept. Consists of 1. Air Separation Plant 2. Com­pressor Houses 3. Chilled water plants and Acetylene plants. The ASP is designed to meet the maximum daily de­mand of gaseous oxygen,  gaseous nitrogen and gaseous ar­gon. Compressor Houses ( CH ) produce Compressed Air required for the operation of pneumatic devices, for instruments and controls, pneumatic tools and for general purpose in the vari­ous production units of Steel Plants. Chilled Water plants ( 2 Nos ) produce chilled water re­quired for use in the ventilation and air conditioning system in areas such as office rooms, electrical control room etc. Acetylene plant produces Acetylene gas required for gen­eral purpose cutting and welding. 

Quality Assurance and Technological Development (QA &TD)
The QA & TD dept. has been set up to take care of activities pertaining to Quality Control of Raw Materials, Semi finished products and finished products. The QA & TD labs are provided at major department like CO&CCP, SP, BF, SMS, Rolling Mills etc., in addition to Central Laboratory. The department monitors the process parameters for production of quality products. QA & TD carries out analysis, testing and final inspection including spark testing of finished prod­ucts and assigns grades to them.

Calcining & Refractory Material Plant
CRMP consists of two units - Calcining Plant & Brick Plant.  In calcining plant limestone & dolomite are calcined for producing lime & calcined dolomite which are used for refining of steel in the converters. 

Roll shop & Repair shop
Roll shop & Repair shop is in the complex of Rolling Mills catering to the needs of mills in respect of roll assemblies, guides few Maintenance Spares and roll pass design. Geographically this dept. is in three areas as Roll shop-1, Roll shop-II and Area Repair Shop. The main activities of this shop is Roll pass Design, grooving of rolls, assembly of rolls with bearings, preparation of guides and their service and manufacture / repair of mill maintenance spares.
        For the first time in the country, VSP has adopted CNC technology for grooving of steel rolling mill rolls. High constant respective accuracy, higher productivity, use of standard tool for any groove turning, elimination of the use of different templates, easier to incorporate groove modification etc., are some of the advantages of CNC lathes over the conventional one. 

Plant Design
Major functions of this unit are

• Development of detailed Manufacturing Drawing and Replacement Specification drawings

• Suggesting New Designs and detailing by doing elaborate engineering study  and Analysis

• Standardization

Works Contracts Department  

• Processing for and obtaining administrative approval on receipt of contractual proposal from indenting departments, tendering and awarding of work.
• Convening tender Committee meetings and preparing recommendations for awarding work.
• Preparing COM / Board Note for decisions at those forum.
• Participating in Claims and Arbitration proceedings and legal cases pertaining to contracts.
• Registration of agencies under various categories & classes of works regularly.

Safety Engineering Department
Safety Engineering Department advises and assists the management in the fulfillment of obligation concerning prevention of accidents and maintaining a safe working environment. SED imparts safety training as well as refresher safety training to the regular employees as well as contractor workers. SED conducts safety inspections, safety audits, mock drills and co-ordinate with the departments for corrective actions in respect of unsafe conditions and unsafe actions. SED conducts safety campaigns and safety competitions amongst the employees to promote safety. SED ensures that high quality safety appliances are procured and issued to the employees. SED co-ordinates and liaison with AP Factories departments.

Spares Management Department
The main functions of SMD are:

• Rationalized spares are procured by SMD department viz., Bearings, Electrodes Conveyor belts, Idlers, Cables, etc., to cater to the needs of various departments.
• All the indents viz., Operation, Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Refractory etc., are processed thro’ SMD department for procurement of necessary spares thro’ purchase department.
• SMD department is coordinating pre dispatch inspection of spares for Works departments, Refractory & Coke Oven Battery – IV, etc.
• SMD department controls Inventory of spares, indenting & consumption budget.

FUNCTIONS OF VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF RINL/VSP

Directorate of Operations

Mines
Brief about Captive Mines of Visakhaptanm Steel Plant

• Madharam Dolomite Mine (MDM)

MDM is located at Madharam village in Singareni Mandal of Khammam District, A.P. The mining lease is for exploitation of Dolomite covering an area of 384.46 Hectares for about 20 years. The lease area is a captive source for Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd (RINL) / Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) for use of Dolomite in its Iron and Steel making processes. The area is situated at a distance of 16 Km from the Ywellandu – Mehaboobabad road taking diversion at Mukundapuram to the area. The present mining lease is valid upto 13.07.2020. A railway line of 7.165 Km distance was constructed from the lease area adjoining at Karepalli Junction. The lease is in operation from 1989 onwards for transportation of Dolomite to VSP covering a distance of 510 Km from the area. A township consisting of 225 dwelling units of all categories with modern amenities was constructed with in the lease area. A DAV School, hospital, hostel, Community Welfare Centre, Shopping Complex, Parks and an Open Air Auditorium were also provided in the township. A Guest House of 4 rooms was also provided in the township. The capacity of the mine is to produce 7,80,000 tonnes of Dolomite per annum. The employee strength is 203 of different categories.
The present Dolomite reserve is 31.03 million tones. It is an open cast mechanized mine of VSP to cater to the requirement of Dolomite.

• Jaggayyapeta Limestone Mine (JLM)

Jaggayyapeta Limestone mine (JLM) is located 5 Km south – West of Jaggayyapeta connected by a black – top road in Krishna District, A.P.
This is a captive mine of VSP to cater to the requirement of BF Grade Limestone of VSP. The mining lease has been granted by Govt. of A.P. covering an area of 1295 Hectares out of which 900 Ha is forest land and 395 Ha is acquired private lands. The lease is valid upto 07.08.2020. This mine is an open cast mechanized mine with a capacity of 4,50,000 tonnes of BF Grade Limestone per year. A Township having 226 quarters of all categories with modern amenities was constructed. Schools hospital, hostel, Community Welfare Centre, Shopping complex and an Open Air Auditorium were also provided in the Township. A four – roomed Guest House was also provided. The Limestone reserve of 130 million tones is occurring in the area. The total strength of employees is 133. The Limestone is dispatched by a goods train covering a distance of 450 Km to VSP from the lease area.

• Garbham Manganese mine (GMM)      

Garbham Manganese mine (GMM) is a captive source for manganese ore for VSP. It is located 16 Km away from Garividi connected by the  black – top road in Merakamududam Mandal, Vizianagaram District, A.P. There are two mining leases adjacent to each other covering an area of 264.54 Hectares. The present reserve of Manganese is 7,03,760 tonnes as on 01.01.2008 with a life of 46 years producing 15,000 tonnes per annum. The area is equipped with a store house, maintenance shed and vocational training centre. The total employees strength is 31 including contractual labour. The total distance from the mine to VSP is 125 Km. The annual production of the mine is @ 16,000 tonnes.

• Saripalli Sand Mine (SSM)

This is a captive source for catering to the requirement of Silica sand for VSP. This is located in Champavati River near Nellimarla Mandal of Vizianagaram District, A.P. The sand is transported from this mine by trucks covering a distance of 95 Km from the area to VSP. The requirement of sand is 50,000 per annum. Loading, transportation and unloading is carried by contractual agency. Only one Junior Officer is posted to look after the mining activities of Saripalli sand Mine. The total reserve of sand is 3,20,000 tonnes.

Production, Planning and Monitoring Department

• Production Planning and Control
• Formulation of long term production plans
• Formulation of Annual and Monthly production plan. This involves detailed planning for product mix and value added steel along with Marketing Dept.
• Analyzing Plant performance against targets on a periodic basis and put up for necessary corrective actions.
• Techno-economic and Quality
• Formulation of techno – economic norms and reviewing the same against targets periodically.

Inputs and Basic Infrastructure:

• Long term and short term planning for procurement of raw materials like Imported Coking Coal (ICC), Medium Coking Coal (MCC), Boiler Coal, Iron Ore Fines and Iron Ore Lumps etc.,
• Monitoring of Inward and Outward Traffic movement.

Repairs and Maintenance Planning

• Planning of major Capital Repairs, Shutdowns, Spares requirement and ensuring preparedness before taking up the repairs.

Mines planning

• Formulation of annual and monthly production plan for BF limestone, BF grade dolomite, Mn Ore and Sand at VSP Captive Mines.
• Monitoring of production and dispatch of Limestone, Dolomite, Mn Ore and Sand from Captive Mines.

 Projects planning

• Long and Short term planning for all developmental schemes of capital nature comprising modernization and technology up-gradation.
• Planning and implementation of Additions, Modifications and Replacement (AMR) schemes.
• Expansion of Plant Capacity from 3.0 Mt liquid steel to 6.3Mt.

Research and Development

• Identification of Technological Improvement scopes for various processes and plan for adoption of them by acquiring design and know-how capability.
• Indigenous development of technology involving laboratory investigation.
• Development of new grades and products in coordination with Marketing dept.

Information Technology

• Formulation of Organizational IT-Policy, IT-Security Policy and IT-Vision.
• Identification of IT enabled projects for various processes and implement them.

Budget plan and control

• Identification of Budget requirement under various heads.
• Control of the Budget and Spares, Consumables & Raw Materials Inventory.

Systems and Procedures

• Streamlining the contract management system to ensure consistency of approach and adoption of sound principles of contract management.
• Ensuring the implementation and maintenance of quality management system requirements for ISO 9001:2000 Certificate.
• Monitoring pollution control activities of the Plant and interaction with the State and Central Pollution Control Board.

Project Division

Design & Engineering Department 

• Liaisoning with Consultants and Government Authorities in connection with designs, specifications, approval of drawings and liaisoning work for various types of clearances.
• Preparation of drawings, design and specification for AMR and Non-AMR jobs.
• Assisting indenting departments in technical discussion with parties and preparation of technical recommendation.
• Layout clearances of various facilities coming in the Plant and Township.
• Operation of Consultancy contracts.

Construction Department   

• Exercising supervision of work at site both for quality and quantity checks.
• Preparation of contractors bills, processing of extra items and closure of contracts.
• Liaisoning with suppliers, MM department, Design & Engineering Department and Stores in connection with progress of work at site.
• Arranging PAT/FAT will all concerned departments like works, design, consultants and suppliers in terms of contract and handing over the unit to works department for operation.

Contracts Department

• Awarding of contract from the point on receipt of administrative approval from indenting departments.
• Conducting commercial discussions with parties.
• Arranging Tender Committee meetings and preparing recommendations for awarding work.
• Preparing COM/Board Note for decisions at those form.
• Participating in claims and arbitration proceedings.

Project Monitoring Department

• To monitor the physical and financial progress of all the works executed by Construction department.
• To monitor the progress of works executed by D&E as well as Contracts department.
• Preparation of various types of reports for information of Government and different levels of Management.
• Interaction with departments and consultant for updating the schedules and networks for Project Monitoring.

Directorate of Finance & Accounts

• Making arrangement for long term fund requirements.
• Accounting of all monetary transactions and preparation of financial statement of the company and getting the same audited as required under law.
• Maintaining records with regard to the cost of products produced by the company.
• Release of payments to suppliers/providers of goods and services.
• Release of salaries to the employees.
• According concurrence to proposals for investments & expenditure as per the policies, procedures and the Delegation of Powers.
• Conduct Internal Audits, Stock Verification and Statutory compliance.
• Making working capital arrangements.
• Submission of periodical reports to banks as per their sanctioned terms.
• Organizing for payment of Central Excise, Sales Tax, Income Tax and other statutory payments.
• Co-ordination with statutory Auditors and Government Audit.
• Generation of various MIS reports pertaining to F&A department for Management Information and Control.
• Payments. Please Click here to view the details of Payments.

Directorate of Personnel

Personnel Department (Corporate Personnel, Central Employee Relations and Plant Personnel)

• Manpower Planning
• Employees induction
• Service matters, policy & rules
• Industrial relations
• Employees welfare
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
• Replies to parliamentary questions
• Official Language implementation

Legal Affairs

• Legal Affairs deals with all legal matters including arbitration, coordination with Standing Councils, Legal Advices etc.

Management Services

• Quality Circle
• Suggestion Scheme
• Incentive Scheme
• Reward Scheme
• Procedural Orders etc

Training & HRD

• Leadership Training
• Training on Motivation and Attitude
• Team Building
• Skill Training
• Induction and Orientation
• Plant Practice Lectures
• Basic Engineering Lectures
• Plant Specialized Training
• Management Development
• On the Job Training
• Multi Skilling / SUPW and Mentoring

Corporate Strategic Management (CSM)
CSM is a “think tank” of the organisation.  The Deparment is engaged in formulation of VMO (Vision, Mission & Objectives) of the organisation and developing the strategy to achieve VMO.  It has various wings which inter-alia includes Knowledge Management Cell (KM Cell).  It has also developed the Corporate Plan of RINL.  It takes up strategic tasks of the organisation.

Town Administration & Administration

• Matters relating to Land & State
• Civil Maintenance
• Electrical Maintenance
• Water Supply
• Roads and Drain Maintenance
• Horticulture and Afforestation
• Peripheral Development and
• Public Health in Township (Ukkunagaram)
• Interact with District Authorities for various welfare activities, land acquisition matters etc.

Medical & Health Services
The Medical & Health Services Division of RINL consist of Visakha Steel General Hospital (VSGH) & Peripheral Units viz. Pedagantrya Health Centre (PGHC), Health Centre – II, Occupational Health Services & Research Centre (OHSRC), Emergency Unit – I & II and Hospitals in Mines – Jaggayyapeta Limestone Mines and Madharam Mines.  The special features of Visakha Steel General Hospital are:

• Full fledged Modern American Designed ICU and MBU capable of treating 6 patients at a time
• Full fledged Modern Radiology with Central A/c systems
• Well equipped Path. Lab with Blood bank facility
• Cluster type Wards & Casualty with Central Nursing Station
• Modern Operation Theatre comples with Shadowless cold lights and 100% bacterial free A/c system

Directorate of Commercial

Marketing Department
It has 24 no. of Branch Sales Offices all over India and four Regional Offices viz. North Delhi, South – Chennai, West – Mumbai, East – Kolkata and Headquarter Sales. Main Activities of Marketing are as follows:

• Collecting Market feedback and Customers requirements for the preparation of Annual Plan in coordination with Works Department, for the sale of Pig Iron Steel and Byproducts
• Preparation of Marketing Policies
• Finalisation of Long Term Contracts, MOUs, Spot sale agreements etc., in Domestic and   Export Markets
• Preparation of Monthly Rolling Plans in coordination with Works Department For meeting the sale commitments
• Processing of Materials like straightening of coils, cutting, bending, bundling, packaging etc., at the plant premises and in branches to meet customers as well as transportation requirements
• Dispatch of products to various stockyards by road or rail or to customers from the plant on direct dispatch basis
• Operation of the contracts for transportation of products by road and stockyard handling/ consignment agency contracts for domestic sales, stevedoring contracts and third party inspection agency for exports
• Sale of products at branches, Headquarters and on direct dispatch basis to the customers in domestic markets and on Ex-works and fob Visakhapatnam basis in exports subject to tying up of commercial and financial terms and conditions. Ensure documentation as per the procedures and as per the statutory requirements.
• Rendering after sales services, obtaining customer feedback and Customer Relations Management.
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Materials Management Department

• Procurement of all materials such as Raw-materials, Spares and consumables required for the entire Plant Operations.

• To enter into long term agreements for supply of major & minor raw-materials with indigenous and imported suppliers.

• To affect economy in the cost of materials by Purchasing materials of the right quality, in the right quantity at the right time from the right source at the right place.

• To arrange inspection of materials prior to handing over to Production Units to ensure quality materials only are issued to Production Units.

• Storage of materials & issue the same to the Production Units as per their requirement.

• To develop and encourage ancillary industries so that the availability of the materials at right time is ensured.

Achievements & Awards

The efforts of VSP have been recognized at various forums. Some of the major awards received by VSP are in the area of energy conservation, environment protection, safety, quality, Circles, Rajbhasha, MOU, sports and a number of awards at the individual level.

Some of the important awards received by VSP are

• ISO 9001:2000 Certificate for

1. Production of comprehensive range of Iron and Steel products, Coke & coal chemicals, other saleable products like liquid nitrogen, liquid oxygen, liquid argon, ammonium sulphate and generation of power along with supporting & service departments.
2. Marketing of Iron and Steel products in export and domestic markets through a network of regional offices and branch offices.
3. Sale of power to state grid and sale of Coke & coal chemicals, other saleable products like liquid nitrogen, liquid oxygen, liquid argon, ammonium sulphate in domestic markets.

• Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra Award - 1992-93 Nehru Memorial National Award for Pollution Control ­1992-93 & 1993-94
• EEPC Export Excellence Award - 1994-95
• CII (Southern Region) Energy Conservation Award - 1995-96
• Golden Peacock (1st Prize) "National Quality Award - 96" 11M in the National Quality Competition - 1996
• Steel Minister’s Trophy for "Best Safety Performance" – 1996
• Selected for "World Quality Commitment Award - I997" of J* Ban ,  Spain
• Gold Star Award for Excellent Performance in Productivity Udyog Excellence Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Steel Industry.  Excellence Award for outstanding performance in Productivity Management, Quality & Innovation.
• Ispat Suraksha Puraskar (1st Prize) for longest Accident Free Period 1991-94
• Best Labour Management Award from the Govt. of AP
• SCOPE Award for Best Turnaround - 2001
• Environment Excellence Award from Greentech Foundation for Energy conservation  – 2002
• Best Enterprise Award from SCOPE, WIPS - 2001-02
• Best Enterprise Award from SCOPE for surpassing MOU targets-2003-04
• ISTD Award for "Best HR Practices" - 2002
• Prime Ministers Trophy for "Best Integrated Steel Plant - 2002-03
• "World Quality Commitment International Star Award" in the Gold category conferred by Business Initiative Directions, Paris
• "Organizational Excellence Award" for 2003-04 conferred by INSSAN
• National Energy Conservation Award, 2004 and Special Prize from Ministry of Power, Govt. of India.

The above awards are besides a number of awards at the local, regional & national level competitions in the area of Quality Circles, Suggestion Schemes etc.

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