Salboni
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Salboni
West Bengal, India |
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| District(s) | Paschim Medinipur |
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Salboni (also Salbani) is a town and a police station in Paschim Medinipur in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the location of a Reserve Bank of India currency printing press and is the proposed site of a steel plant.
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[edit] History
During the second world war it was an air base of the Royal Air Force. [1]
[edit] Geography
Salboni is located at [2]. It has an average elevation of 25 metres (85 feet).
[edit] Economy
[edit] Proposed steel plant
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JSW Steel signed a pact with West Bengal government on 11 January 2007 to set up a 10 million tonne steel plant in Salboni. [3] This will be the largest single investment in Bengal ever. The plant will come up on a 5,000-acre plot. The district magistrate B.P. Barat said around 95 per cent of the land for the Jindal project is fallow, barring a few acres in two mouzas, inhabited by tribals. [4]
The first phase of the steel project will need an investment of Rs. 15,000 crore that would include a 3-million tonne steel plant, a 600 MW captive power plant, an independent 1,000 MW power plant, development of coal mines and a berth in the Haldia port. The next two phases will need investment of Rs. 10,000 crore each to enhance steel production to 10 million tonnes. It will provide direct and indirect employment totalling 10,000. [5]
[edit] Politics
Khagendra Nath Mahata of CPI (M) was elected to the state assembly from Salboni constituency in 2006 [6] and in 2001 [7]
Extremists have been active in the area, especially in the forests around Salboni. [8]
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[edit] References
- ^ Royal Air force – History of No. 356 Squadron , 159 Squadron
- ^ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Salboni
- ^ The Hindu Business Line 12 January 2007
- ^ The Telegraph, 23 December 2006
- ^ The Telegraph, print edition, 11 January 2007, The Telegraph 12 January 2007, The Hindu Business Line 12 January 2007
- ^ 2006 state elections
- ^ 2001 state elections
- ^ The Hindu 7 December 2003 , The Telegraph 20 February 2005
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[edit] See also
| West Bengal development hubs |
| Asansol – Burnpur / IISCO • Baruipur • Dankuni • Durgapur / Durgapur Steel Plant • Haldia • Kolkata West International City • Mejia • Nandigram • Rajarhat • Salboni • Singur • Uluberia |
| Cities and towns in Paschim Medinipur district |
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