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V The Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) - a public sector undertaking run by the Steel Authority

of India - was built with Soviet co-operation and technology, and began production
in 1959.

V BSP is the sole manufacturer of rails and producer of the widest and heaviest plates
in India.

V Bhilai specializes in the high strength UTS 90 rails, high tensile and boiler quality
plates, TMT bars, and electrode quality wire rods.

V The plant is the sole supplier of the country's longest rail tracks of 260 metres.

V Seven - time winner of Prime Minister's Trophy for best Integrated Steel Plant in the
country, Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) is India's sole producer of rails and heavy steel
plates and major producer of structural.
 Transport & Diesel Organization is a vital department which takes care of all
internal and external movement on rails of various raw semi-finished and finished
materials involved in running of a steel plant.

 Transport & Diesel Organisation comprises two main sections :


1. Traffic Section (Rail Transport)
2. Maintenance Wing

G Traffic Section
Rail Transport is linked up with the technological process of steel making from the
beginning of the process and continues till the completion of the process.

a) External traffic : Bringing in Raw Materials and despatch of finished products in


association with Indian Railways. Works Station is the main exchange yard of plant
connected with double lines to Bhilai Exchange Yard.
b) Internal Traffic :
It is mainly for inter-shop movement of various finished and semi finished goods,
raw material, scrap, and all other miscellaneous traffic inside the plant. All
activities are controlled by five stations and one Peripheral Yard.

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 Despatch of finished products and empty wagons to Bhilai Exchange Yard.
 Services to Peripheral Yard.
 Services to auxiliary plant area, disposal stores and Bhilai Stock Yard.

2. Raw Material Station & Plate Mill Post :


 Supply of coke to BF high lines in case of conveyor belt shutdown.
 Movement of finished plates and slabs to Works Station, for despatch.
 Supply of wagons to Plate Mill and Slab Yard, for loading.
K. Blast Furnace Station and Cold Pig Yard :
 Provide transport facilities to Blast Furnace and Pig Casting Machines.
 Formation of trains in Cold Pig Yard and dispatch to Works Station.
 Supply of boiler coal to power generation hopper at PP-I.

º. Steel Station :
 Provides transport facility to Steel Melting Shop.
 Movements of heat and mould trains to & from SMS-I.
 Supply of Ferro Manganese and Ferro Silicon to furnaces.

—. Open Hearth Station and Muck Dump :


 Dumping of dump car loads from slag yard, and supply empty dump cars.
 Dumping of dump car loads from slag yard, and supply empty dump cars.
 Services to wagon depot & expansion stores.
=. Peripheral Yard :
 Provides boiler coal to Power Plant.
 Handles coking coal through 3 wagon tipplers for the Coke Ovens.

TRAFFIC HANDLING FACILITIES IN T & D ORGANISATION

There are many controls to co-ordinate, activities of Rail Transport Department from
one end to other end of the works.
[ Railway Signalling Control : Coordinates all the day to day maintenance, repair and
inspection of Railway Signalling and communication equipment of T & D
Organisation.
[ raffic Control : Co-ordinate with all stations in the works, and with various
dispatcher controls of works for all internal traffic movement based on contact
schedule system.
[ rain Control : Co-ordinate and control all the external traffic activities of the
works.
G AINTENANCE WING :

Maintenance of the plant locomotives and the rolling stock (for internal traffic
handling) are carried out in the Loco and Wagon Depots of Transport & Diesel
Organisation.

R Loco Depot :
The locomotive are subjected to periodical examination and repairs at prescribed
time intervals which are adhered to, for reliable service.

2 & ocuemet Goup :


The group deals with the procurement of spare parts pertaining to loco and wagon
depot and is responsible for planning maintenance schedule and overhauling
schedule of locos.

3 Wo Depot :
For the internal rolling stock scheduled and preventive maintenance are carried
out in this depot.
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S  Commucto :
Most of the external traffic movement and communication are conducted through a
system of Central Traffic Control (C.T.C.) which envisages Route Relay Interlocking
and Automatic Signaling. Four stations, namely Works Station, R.M. Station, O.H.
Station and B.F. Station are provided with C.T.C. facility covering 330 points in the
plant. The route relay interlocking for each station comprises an illuminated control
panel with necessary switches, push-buttons etc. for operating the points and
signaling in its area. Coal Tippler Yard will soon have a panel with locking system
on Indian Railways pattern.

 Facilities are also provided for emergency working such as canceling of incomplete
movements, electrical operation of points under track circuit failure and manual
working of points under total failure. The other field equipment are :
(a) Level crossing warning signals.
(b) Shunting columns for conducting localized shunting from site.
(c) Loudspeaker communication.
(d) Point to point communication in the yard.
(e) Communication with control and adjacent stations.
V All the station yards, posts and control rooms have been provided with necessary
communication connections to the central traffic control room.

V For easy access to Railway communication lines, EPABX (Electronic Private


Automatic Branch Exchange) has been inducted into the system. The addition
provides intercom facility.
V The science and technology of communication at a distance by electronic
transmission of impulses, as by telegraph, cable, telephone, radio, or television.

V Telecommunication department is serving the whole plant as well as the


township, to achieve higher productivity and better work culture.

V Telecommunication department comprises following sections :

R t Exche : Line communication related to the plant is looked after by this
section.

2 To  hp Exche & C e Le : Three exchange (include at sector-5 and


the hospital) & telephone cable line network for whole township along with
satellite colonies is looked after by this section.
3 t C e Le : The Plant cable line network inside the plant area and some of
the township area is looked after by this section.

4 Gee Commucto : This section helps all shops in the production activities.
Almost all communication system inside the plant are maintained by this section.

à Despatcher System : It is a hotline communication between different locations in the


shops with the centrally located operator by just lifting the telephone.

à Plant Management System (P.M.S.) : It is the loud speaking intercom system wiyh
programmable subscriber. 8 sets of total capacity 245 stations are installed at different
places inside the plant for helping the production personnel.

à Distributed Amplifier System (D.A.) : It is a loud speaking system used in unmanned


areas. All units are connected in parallel.

à Public Address (P.A.) system : It is the announcement system controlled from a single
point.

à Closed Circuit elevision (C.C..V.) system : It is for monitoring of hot metal inside
furnace, chimney emission, finished products and various other sites.
à Conference System : This system is installed at different conference halls for
effective presentations and day-to day meetings / conferences.

à Pagers : This communication is one way communication facility. During


emergency paging can be done for doctors for calling for urgent treatment etc.

à ^ ecutive Communication System (Plant Control) : For monitoring of activity of


plant and township round the clock, it is an interface between the shop floor and
the top management personal.

— Automu & Decto


Sece : This department has infrastructure for
computerized up-gradation of telephone directory.

6 Teephoe Rep Shop : All types of dial type instruments, push button
instruments, plan-7 instruments, plan (1+1) instruments, cordless instruments,
handfree telephones, cordless telephones are looked after by the telephone
repair shop.
å  Stoe  Wo hop : This section looks after the procurement,
storage & distribution of spares and other required materials for the department.
It also looks after the departmental workshop which provides facilities for in-
house fabrication work for telegraph channels, clamps, telephone poles etc.

8 Coc Stto : This department comprises a master clock station at Telephone


House with slave clocks installed at various locations in the shops throughout the
plant, including all the Gate of BSP. All the slave clock and show the same timing.

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