(a) whether the Government had opened jumbo COVID care hospitals in the public sector steel plants in the country;
(b) if so, the details thereof along with the details of such facilities established during the pandemic; and
(c) the amounts allocated for setting up such medical centres in steel plants?
THE MINISTER OF STEEL (SHRI RAM CHANDRA PRASAD SINGH)
(a)to(c): The public sector steel companies in the country have opened the following jumbo COVID care hospitals/facilities in their steel plants during the pandemic using their own resources. No allocation has been made by the Government for this purpose:-
Steel PSU Plant/location No. of Beds Total
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) Visakhapatnam 440 440
Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) Bokaro 500 1114
Bhilai 114
Rourkela 100
Burnpur 200
Durgapur 200
Total 1554