Rourkela plant goes hi-tech to clean city

ROURKELA, April 21: Rourkela Steel Plant has acquired a hi-tech equipment as part of its programme to keep the steel city clean and green. The equipment is meant for faster and better cleaning of roads and public places.
The equipment, which has been procured at a cost of about Rs 45 lakh, is mounted on the Ashok Leyland chassis.
This is for the first time that such an equipment has been procured by RSP and added to the fleet of its township maintenance. It has two side sweepers and a central sweeper.
The latter is three metres wide and its suction unit has a capacity of five cubic metres. The machine can run at the rate of around three metres per second, with vehiclular speed of 56 kmph.
Mr SS Mohanty, executive director, P&A, RSP, inaugurated the equipment on the Town Engineering premises this morning.