NMDC has resumed construction activity of its first steel plant coming up at Nagarnar in Chhattisgarh. The construction work of the plant being set up at a cost of over Rs 20,000 crore was stopped in the wake of lockdown announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last month.
NMDC is a state-controlled mineral producer of the Government of India. It is fully owned by the Government of India and is under administrative control of the Ministry of Steel.