In Search Of Lost Glory
Barely two weeks after he had taken over as the Chairman of India's largest state run steel company, 58 year old Anil Kumar Chaudhary was staring at a major crisis. On October 9, 2018, an explosion at the Bhilai plant, the largest production unit of Steel Authority of India (SAIL), killed 14 workers. The blast occurred in a gas pipeline connected to the coke oven section of the plant during a maintenance job. It was not a one off incident, though. On May 24, there was a minor fire at the Bhilai plant, though no one was injured. In June 2014, six people, including two deputy general managers, had died in that factory due to gas leakage. In a career spanning over three decades in the public sector company, Chaudhary's tenure at the top started on a troubled note.
"It was really unfortunate... and I had to face it soon after I took charge. But we have become more careful now. We are doing whatever lies within our realm so that not even a single fatality happens at SAIL in the future. All our plants have
