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After bagging Utkal B1 and B2 coal block in the Angul-Talcher belt in the state, Jindal Steel & Power Limited (JSPL) on Friday said it would develop its Odisha plant into the largest and greenest facility in the world. This was stated by the company's chairman Naveen Jindal. He said JSPL has secured sufficient reserves of coal to enable the mega steel company to enhance its capacity for green steel making. He claimed that JSPL is the first steelmaker in the world to build Coal Gasification to produce steel using clean coal technologies. Greeting the people of Odisha on the occasion of Utkal Divas, Jindal said, "We won the Utkal B1 & B2 Coal Block on 17th Punya Tithi of Shri OP Jindal Ji who had a vision of using indigenous coal to make steel. This will help us to translate the shared dream of Bauji and legendary leader Biju Patnaik ji to a reality and bring prosperity to Odisha through value addition of natural resources and industrialisation". "Odisha is our karmabhoomi ...
Jindal Steel & Power on Tuesday reported a 27.2 per cent drop in consolidated profit at Rs 1,866.08 for the quarter ended December 2021 owing to higher expenses. The company had posted a consolidated profit of Rs 2,566.68 crore in the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, Jindal Steel & Power said in a BSE filing. However, the consolidated income of the company during the October-December period increased to Rs 12,535.35 crore, over Rs 9,643.88 crore in the year-ago period. In a statement, the company said that its "consolidated PAT of Rs 1,622 crore fell by 34 per cent Y-o-Y due to lower operating profit and higher tax expense." While the third quarter of FY'22 witnessed a sharp improvement in domestic demand on a sequential basis, the quarter continued to be marred by unseasonal rains, lack of railway rakes and muted demand amidst rising COVID-19 cases. Steel demand in India registered a seven per cent Y-o-Y fall in the third quarter of ongoing fiscal. The company ...