Steel Production Capacity of the Country

Ministry of Steel

The total crude steel production capacity of the country during 2018-19 is 142 million tonnes. Details of the units engaged in Steel production are given at Annexure. As per Indian Mineral Yearbook, 2018 published by Indian Bureau of Mines, there were1430 reporting mines in 2017-18. Among them, 146 mines were in the Public Sector and 1284 in the Private Sector.

Data on gross production, export and consumption of finished steel is given below for the last year and current year which indicates that gross production has exceeded domestic consumption of the same in each of these periods:

Total Finished Steel (mt)
Year	Production	Consumption
2018-19	101.29	98.71
April-October, 2019*	59.73	59.05
Source: JPC * provisional; mt= million tonnes

Steel being a deregulated sector, specific decision of setting up of the steel plant and its location is taken by individual steel companies/investor on the basis of commercial consideration and market dynamics. Presently, NMDC is setting up a steel plant at Nagarnar, Bastar, Chhattisgarh.

Annexure
Details of Steel Production Capacity & No. of units, State-Wise 2018-19
A) PRIVATE SECTOR				B) PUBLIC SECTOR
		(‘000t)	(‘000t)
State	Units	Capacity	Production			(‘000t)	(‘000t)
EASTERN REGION				State	Unit	Capacity	Production
Arunachal Pradesh	3	125	39	Chhattisgarh	B S P	5500	4447
Assam	8	205	83	West Bengal	D S P	2200	2219
Bihar	20	837	563	Odisha	R S P	3800	3658
Jharkhand	64	14815	13405	Jharkhand	B S L	4600	3833
Meghalaya	7	185	65	West Bengal	I S P	2500	1888
Odisha	62	22617	15641	West Bengal	A S P	234	101
Tripura	1	30	7	Tamil Nadu	S S P	180	117
West Bengal	48	5886	3263	Karnataka	V I S L	118	0
Eastern Region Total	213	44700	33066	TOTAL: SAIL		19132	16263
WESTERN REGION				Andhra Pradesh	RINL	6300	5233
Chhattisgarh	76	12564	8717	TOTAL Public Sector		25432	21496
Dadra and Nagar Haveli	20	316	291
Daman and Diu	3	44	50
Goa	12	474	429
Gujarat	66	12646	8654
Madhya Pradesh	11	555	506
Maharashtra	56	11791	9114
Western Region Total	244	38390	27760
NORTHERN REGION
Delhi	2	16	13
Haryana	10	953	803
Himachal Pradesh	21	862	730
Jammu and Kashmir	8	189	136
Punjab	117	4800	3611
Rajasthan	41	1286	1158
Uttar Pradesh	46	1551	1321
Uttarakhand	37	1389	1069
Northern Region Total	282	11046	8840
SOUTHERN REGION
Andhra Pradesh	26	1956	1700
Karnataka	30	15062	13327
Kerala	35	535	349
Puducherry	10	249	190
Tamil Nadu	101	3661	2919
Telangana	27	1205	1274
Southern Region Total	229	22668	19759
Total: Private Sector	968	116804	89425
Total: Public Sector	9	25432	21496
All Region Total	977	142236	110921
Source: JPC