Tata Steel to make ferrochrome plant wind resistant.

Tata Steel would incur an additional investment of Rs. 20 crore towards construction of its proposed ferrochrome plant near Gopalpur to enable the unit to withstand wind speed of 250-300 km per hour.

'We have decided to invest Rs 20 crore more to make the ferrochrome plant's construction stronger so that it can endure wind speed of up to 300 km per hour', said Arun Misra, vice president of Tata Steel's Gopalpur project.

The Gopalpur area, off Ganajm coast in southern Odisha, is identified as a cyclone prone zone.

Phailin, the very severe cyclonic storm made landfall near Gopalpur on October 12, 2013. Exactly a year later, another severe cyclonic storm, Hudhud struck the coast of Andhra Pradesh near Visakhapatnam and also affected Gopalpur. Phailin, whose wind speed was in the range of 200-220 km at the time of landfall, caused large scale damage to infrastructure in Ganjam district.

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