India’s first ‘steel road’ built in Diamond City of India ‘Surat’

India’s first-of-its kind road made out of steel waste has come up in Surat city of Gujarat at the Hazira Industrial Area.

The road has been built by Arcelor Mittal Nippon Steel India in collaboration with CSIR India (Council of Scientific and Industrial Research), CRRI (Central Road Research Institute) and NITI Aayog. The project also uses the Waste to Wealth and Clean India campaigns of the Indian government. The new experimental road project is 6-lane and 1-kilometre in length. It consists of 100 percent processed steel slag.