Gujarat's Surat Gets India's First Road Made Of Steel , NITI Aayog Members to Inspect

In Gujarat, the country's first road made of steel waste is ready. Heavy vehicles are also running on this road. This road has been constructed in collaboration with NITI Aayog, the Ministry of Steel, and the Central Road Research Institute. This road is made from the waste of the ANMS plant in Surat. NITI Aayog member V.K. Saraswat inspected this road. This one-kilometer-long road at Hazira Port in Gujarat was earlier in bad shape due to trucks carrying several tonnes of weight, but under an experiment, this road has been made entirely out of steel waste.

Now more than 1000 trucks carrying a weight of 18 to 30 tonnes pass through this road every day, but the road remains the same. The country's first road made of steel waste was inaugurated on Friday by NITI Aayog member V.K. Saraswat inspected and said that the road is perfect on every scale. A member of NITI Aayog said on this occasion that today one of my dreams has come true after seeing this road. When I saw steel waste in the Durgapur steel plant in a 10 km area, then I thought about why it cannot be used. From then till today, I have been trying that we should use it somewhere and promote a circular economy.

AMNS Surat Executive Director Santosh M Mundhra said that every year about 20 million tonnes of steel waste is generated from different steel plants in the country. By 2030 this will increase to 45 million tonnes. Today the situation is such that mountains of steel waste have formed in steel plants. This poses a great threat to the environment. That is why on the instructions of NITI Aayog, the Ministry of Steel has given a project to the Central Road Research Institute for the use of this waste. After many years of research, scientists have prepared a ballast of steel waste by processing steel waste at AMNS Steel Plant in Surat. After this experiment, now the highways and runway roads of the country will be made of waste from steel because the roads made of it are very strong and the thickness of this road has also been reduced by 30 percent from the common road.

CRRI Principal Scientist Satish Pandey said that one lakh tonnes of steel waste have been processed and used in the construction of this road, due to which the pollution caused by this waste can be reduced to a great extent, and we can reduce the land pollution, air pollution from this. And can reduce water pollution, which remains to lie on the waste steel plants. We can use it like this. Where the cost of a road made of stone and ballast is Rs 2100-2200 per square meter, while the cost of this road is only Rs 1200 square meter. This is also reducing the cost of building the road.