Coordinates: 22°38′N 87°11′E / 22.63, 87.19

?Salboni West Bengal • India    Salboni  Coordinates: 22°38′N 87°11′E / 22.63, 87.19 Time zone IST (UTC+5:30) Area • Elevation • 25 m (82 ft) District(s) Paschim Medinipur Codes • Telephone • +03227

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.

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. 

Current MLA from Salbani assembly constituency is Khagendranath Mahato of CPI(M), who won the seat in State elections of 2006 for the third time in a row: he had won this seat in 2001 and in 1996 also. Sundar Hazra of CPI(M) was MLA from this constituency in 1991, 1987, 1982 and in 1977 Salbani assembly constituency is part of Jhargram (Lok Sabha constituency).Extremists have been active in the area, especially in the forests around Salboni.



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