(a) the number of small, medium and major steel plants in the country;
(b) the details of their production capacity;
(c) the target fixed for steel production during the current year;
(d) the number of licenses issued for setting up of steel plants during the last three years alongwith the
number of applications lying pending till date; and
(e) the time by which the pending applications are likely to be cleared?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF STEEL
(DR. AKHILESH DAS)
(a)&(b) : The number of steel plants in public and private sector producing crude steel and the production capacity
of these plants in the country during 2006-07 (provisional) is given at Annexure I.
(c) The target fixed for saleable steel production by steel plants in the Public Sector during 2007-08 is given at Annexure II.
(d)&(e) : According to the New Industrial Policy announced in July 1991, steel industry has been de-licensed and removed
from the list of industries reserved for the public sector subject to certain locational restrictions. No industrial licence is
therefore required for setting up steel plants under the Industrial (Development & Regulation) Act, 1951 and the entrepreneurs
are free to set up such plants anywhere in the country based on their commercial judgements, except in the restricted locations.
However, as per available information the number of industrial licenses issued for setting up of iron and steel plants in the
restricted locations during January 2004 to December 2006 is 20. Applications for setting up steel plants in restricted locations
are received in the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion and are disposed of in a time bound manner by the Licensing
Committee in the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion.
ANNEXURE-I
Number of steel plants in public and private sector in the country producing crude steel during 2006-07
(‘000 tonnes) Producer/ Category Number of steel plants Production Capacity
Public Sector SAIL Plants 7 12839 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. 1 2910 Private Sector Tata Steel Ltd. 1 5000 Electric Arc Furnace 36 13479 Corex 1 2500 Others- BOF, MBF and EOF 2 615 Induction Furnace 831 19500
Million Tonnes (MT) Name of Plant Target of saleable steel production during 2007-08 Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) Integrated Steel Plants Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) 4.25 Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) 1.72 Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) 1.80 Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL) 3.90 IISCO Steel Plant (ISP) 0.40 Alloy Steel Plant (ASP) 0.16 Salem Steel Plant(SSP) 0.18 Visveswarya Iron & Steel Plant( VISL) 0.12 Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) 3.21