In the next eight weeks, union steel ministry would prepare a road map with time lines for attaining the government’s target of trebling steel production capacity to 300 million tonne by 2025.
Government aims to raise the production capacity of steel by three-fold in order to support manufacturing sector in the country.
In 2011-12, India had steel production capacity of 89 million tonne per annum and this is estimated to rise to 120 million tonne this fiscal.
Some of the issues hampering growth in the sector are land acquisition, environmental clearances and local problems. Huge projects like POSCO in Odisha and Arcelor Mittal in Jharkhand are stuck because of such issues for over a decade.
A High-Level Committee headed by Prime Minister has proposed, in the short-run, pro-active facilitation of pipeline projects on priority basis by the steel ministry and the new investment facilitation mechanism in the Cabinet Secretariat.
It has also asked state-run Steel Authority of India (SAIL) to leverage existing infrastructure to expand capacity substantially and work out plans for capacity expansion and production of speciality steels by September-end.
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