RAJYA SABHA
The Government has
taken a number of steps to increase the production of steel in
the country, i.e. modernization and expansion of public sector
steel plants and various policy measures to encourage creation
of additional production capacity in the private sector. Indian
steel producers have also been taking steps to meet the domestic
requirement of steel including upgradation of technology, improvement
in productivity, improvement in quality of products and adoption
of an appropriate product mix to suit the requirement of the consumers.
The Government is playing the
role of a facilitator in removing bottlenecks in the growth prospect
of the Indian steel sector as a whole. It also collects data regarding
production and sales of the private sector.
This information
was given by the Minister for Steel Shri Braja Kishore Tripathy
in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
