Mumbai, March 15 -- More than a decade after his first abortive bid, steel baron L.N. Mittal has moved closer to his plans to enter the Indian steel market. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Ahmedabad, on Friday, 15 February, approved ArcelorMittal's resolution plan for debt-laden Essar Steel Ltd after over a year of legal wrangles with bidders, courts and banks. Mittal's steel company, ArcelorMittal, is the world's largest by volume but, ironically, doesn't have a steel plant to its name in India. ArcelorMittal, in a joint venture with Japan's Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp., has offered an upfront cash settlement of '42,000 crore to lenders and a '8,000 crore capital infusion. ArcelorMittal is also planning a '18,697 crore c...