Lok Sabha Question No. 3790 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-19
Subject: Establishment of Steel Plants
Ministry: STEEL
Asked by: MUTHAMSETTI SRINIVASA RAO (AVNTHI), R.P. MARUTHARAJAA, ARVIND GANPAT SAWANT, Y. S. AVINASH REDDY, MAULANA BADRUDDIN AJMAL, SUNIL KUMAR SINGH, KOTHA PRABHAKAR REDDY

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.3790 FOR ANSWER ON 19/03/2018

## ESTABLISHMENT OF STEEL PLANTS

3790.  SHRI MUTHAMSETTI SRINIVASA RAO (AVANTHI):

SHRI R.P. MARUTHARAJAA:

SHRI ARVIND SAWANT:

SHRI Y.S. AVINASH REDDY:

SHRI BADRUDDIN AJMAL:

SHRI SUNIL KUMAR SINGH:

SHRI PRABHAKAR REDDY KOTHA:

Will the Minister of STEEL be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  cleared  the  path  for  setting  up  an  integrated steel plant at Kadapa and a cold-rolled coils steel plant at Vizag as promised in the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2014;
- (b) if so, the details thereof along with the time by which these plants are likely to be made operational;

(c) whether the Government proposes to set up more steel plants including Ultra Mega Steel Plants (UMSPs) in the country during the next three years and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise;

- (d) the  number  of  operational  steel  plants  including  UMSPs  both  in  public  and private sectors at present, State/UT-wise; and
- (e) the steps taken by the Government to make the proposed plants operational in a time bound manner?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE FOR STEEL

(SHRI VISHNU DEO SAI)

(a)&(b): In terms of the Thirteenth Schedule of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation Act,  2014,  Steel  Authority  of  India  Ltd.  (SAIL)  was  to  examine  the  feasibility  of establishing integrated steel plants at YSR Kadapa district of Andhra Pradesh and at Bayyaram in Khammam district of Telangana.  As per the feasibility report submitted by  SAIL  on  02.12.2014,  the  setting  up  of  steel  plant  is  prima  facie  not  financially viable.  Subsequently, a Task Force has been constituted on 19.10.2016 comprising of representatives from the Central and concerned State Governments, SAIL, RINL, NMDC Ltd., MECON Ltd. and MSTC Ltd.  to suggest a road map for setting up of Steel    Plants    in  Andhra  Pradesh  and  Telangana.  In  the  last  meeting  of  the  Task Force  held  on  27.12.2017,  it  was  decided  that  the  concerned  State  Government would share with MECON the data for preparation of report and work out realistic assumptions based on which MECON would complete the Feasibility Report.

- (c) At present, there is no  proposal  to set up  more  steel  plants by the Government.
- (d) The state-wise number of operational steel plants both in public and private sector during the year 2016-17 as per Joint Plant Committee (JPC) is annexed .
- (e) Steel being a de-regulated sector, the Government's role is that of a facilitator which lays down the policy guidelines and establishes the institutional mechanism/structure for creating conducive environment for improving efficiency and performance of the steel sector.

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Annexure  referred  to  in  part(d)  of  Lok  Sabha  Unstarred  Question  No.3790  for 19.03.2018.

The state-wise  number  of  operational  steel  plants  both  in  public  and  private  sector during the year 2016-17 as per Joint Plant Committee (JPC)

('000t)

Crude Steel: State Wise Details, 2016-17

PUBLIC SECTOR

Unit

Bhilai Steel Plant

Durgapur Steel Plant

Rourkela Steel  Plant

Bokaro Steel  Plant

IISCO Steel Plant

Alloy Steel Plant

Salem Steel Plant

Visvesvarya  Iron & Steel

Plant

TOTAL: SAIL

Rashtriya Ispat Nigam

Limited

State

Chhattisgarh

West Bengal

Odisha

Jharkhand

West Bengal

West Bengal

Tamil Nadu

Karnataka

Andhra Pradesh

A) TOTAL Public Sector

## PRIVATE SECTOR

| State                  |   No. of Units |   Capacity |   ('000t) Production |
|------------------------|----------------|------------|----------------------|
| Arunachal Pradesh      |              1 |         74 |                   56 |
| Assam                  |             12 |        293 |                  217 |
| Bihar                  |             42 |       1138 |                  675 |
| Jharkhand              |            134 |      14789 |                13172 |
| Meghalaya              |             12 |        313 |                  158 |
| Odisha                 |             84 |      19262 |                14809 |
| Tripura                |              1 |         30 |                   23 |
| West Bengal            |             83 |       6098 |                 4165 |
| Eastern Region Total   |            369 |      41997 |                33274 |
| Chhattisgarh           |             78 |      10257 |                 6802 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli |             22 |        292 |                  258 |
| Daman And Diu          |              4 |         54 |                   22 |
| Goa                    |             20 |        738 |                  482 |
| Gujarat                |             58 |      11809 |                 6351 |
| Madhya Pradesh         |             14 |        252 |                  177 |
| Maharashtra            |             73 |      10141 |                 8748 |
| Western Region Total   |            269 |      33543 |                22840 |

Capacity

4360

1802

4400

3925

2500

234

180

118

17519

6300

23819

Production

3154

2042

2932

4737

1394

88

108

39

14494

3962

18456

| Chandigarh               |    2 |     77 |    31 |
|--------------------------|------|--------|-------|
| Delhi                    |    2 |     14 |    10 |
| Haryana                  |   15 |    926 |   793 |
| Himachal Pradesh         |   20 |    682 |   498 |
| Jammu And Kashmir        |    8 |    184 |   129 |
| Punjab                   |  115 |   2662 |  2043 |
| Rajasthan                |   46 |   1078 |   791 |
| Uttar Pradesh            |   55 |   1347 |   901 |
| Uttarakhand              |   23 |    477 |   371 |
| Northern Region Total    |  286 |   7447 |  5567 |
| Andhra Pradesh           |   31 |   1907 |  1323 |
| Karnataka                |   27 |  13597 | 12365 |
| Kerala                   |   36 |    616 |   345 |
| Puducherry               |   17 |    488 |   252 |
| Tamil Nadu               |  109 |   3448 |  2555 |
| Telangana                |   38 |   1415 |   958 |
| Southern Region Total    |  258 |  21471 | 17799 |
| B) Total: Private Sector | 1182 | 104458 | 79480 |
| GRAND TOTAL (A+B)        | 1191 | 128277 | 97936 |

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