As part of its Rs 70,000 crore expansion programme, state-owned Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) on Tuesday commissioned a newly renovated unit at its Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL). SAIL chairman, Mr C.S. Verma, inaugurated the revamped blast furnace at BSL, which was upgraded at a cost of Rs 805 crore, a company statement said. “Blast Furnace-2, upgraded at a cost of Rs 805 crore, is the first unit to be commissioned under BSL’s current phase of expansion and modernisation and is part of SAIL’s growth plan to take hot metal production capacity to the level of 23.5 million tonnes by 2012-13 (from present 14 MT),” the company’s statement said.