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Durgapur Steel Plant Durgapur Steel Plant is one of the integrated steel plants of Steel Authority of India Limited, located in Durgapur, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. It was set up with the help of UK.
History of the steel industry (1850–1970) In 1869 iron was already a major industry, accounting for 6.6% of manufacturing employment and 7.8% of manufacturing output. By then the central figure was Andrew Carnegie,[35] who made Pittsburgh the center of the industry.[36] He sold his operations to US Steel in 1901, which became the world's largest steel corporation for decades.