The total number of steel based industries in the country in 2018-19 stood at 1217. State-wise details of existing steel industries are given at Annexure-I.

 

Details of import & export of raw steel and steel products during last three years are given below:-

 

Year

Raw Steel & Steel Products (in million tonnes)

Import

Export

 

 

Chapter 72 & 73

2016-17

15.31

17.59

2017-18

15.73

19.69

2018-19

17.97

15.90

Source:  Department of Commerce

 

The production of iron ore in the country is sufficient to meet the current demand/consumption by domestic steel industry. However, the entire demand of coking coal is not met from the domestic production as the supply of coking coal in the country is limited and thus no option is left but to resort to import of coking coal.

 

The supply of iron ore during last year i.e. 2018-19 was 207.7 MT against its demand of 189 MT. During 2018-19 the total demand of coking coal for steel industry was 58.37 MT. Out of this 51.83 MT (excluding PCI & Anthracite Coal) were met through imports and 1.6 MT was provided by Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) and Coal India Limited (CIL) and remaining was catered by Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and TATA Steel.

 

 

 

Annexure-I

 

State-Wise details of steel plants (steel-based industries only of steel sector) functioning in the country during 2018-19

 

STATE

UNITS

ANDHRA PRADESH

28

ARUNANCHAL PRADESH

3

ASSAM

4

BIHAR

21

CHANDIGARH

3

CHATTISGARH

108

DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI

5

DELHI

2

GOA

9

GUJARAT

112

HARYANA

17

HIMANCHAL PRADESH

18

JAMMU AND KASHMIR

17

JHARKHAND

46

KARNATAKA

19

KERALA

30

MADHYA PRADESH

33

MAHARASHTRA

105

MEGHALAYA

5

ODISHA

44

PUDUCHERRY

9

PUNJAB

232

RAJASTHAN

64

TAMIL  NADU

82

TELANGANA

54

TRIPURA

1

UTTAR PRADESH

80

UTTARAKHAND

8

WEST BENGAL

58

Total

1217

       Source: Joint Plant Committee (JPC)