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Diamond City Gets India’s First “Steel Road”: Know The Details Inside

A road made of steel trash has been built in the Hazira Industrial Area in Surat, Gujarat, as part of the first such project for research.

Binita Kumari
Steel Road built in the Hazira Industrial Area in Surat, Gujarat
Steel Road built in the Hazira Industrial Area in Surat, Gujarat

Nineteen million tons of steel trash produced each year by various factories across the country that would otherwise end up in landfills could soon find a new home - in the form of roads that not only make use of an underused resource but are also more durable.

A road made of steel trash has been built in the Hazira Industrial Area in Surat, Gujarat, as part of the first such project for research.

It is co-sponsored by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), with assistance from the Ministry of Steel and Policy Commission, as well as the NITI Aayog. The project also uses the Waste to Wealth and Clean India campaigns of the Indian government.

The one-kilometer-long experimental project road includes six lanes. It is built entirely of process steel aggregate and serves as an alternative for traditional materials used to build roads. The thickness of the road has also been lowered by 30%, according to CSRI. This novel approach is thought to be capable of preventing road damage during the rainy season.

"This 1-kilometer-long road at Hazira Port in Gujarat was previously in bad shape due to trucks carrying several tons of weight," CSRI Principal Scientist Satish Pandey said.

"However, under just one experiment, this road was made entirely from steel waste, and now more than 1,000 trucks, 18 to 30 per day, pass with tons of weight, but the road remains the same."

According to Pandey, the highways and other roads would grow stronger as a result of this experiment, and the cost will be lowered by roughly 30%. Steel factories in India generate 19 million tons of steel waste each year, which is expected to rise to 50 million tons by 2030, according to one estimate.

"Steel mills have turned into piles of scrap metal. This is a major environmental danger, which is why, on the directions of NITI Aayog, the Ministry of Steel handed us a project many years ago to use this trash for construction. After much research, experts processed steel waste at the AMNS Steel Plant in Surat and created ballast from it "AMNS Executive Director Santosh M Mundhra stated.

Following the success of its first pilot project, the Indian government intends to use steel waste in the construction of highways in the future to strengthen roads.

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