RINL MEETS 25 PER CENT OF COUNTRY'S
LONG STEEL REQUIREMENT
LOK
SABHA
The rated capacity
of the Vishakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) of the Rashtriya Ispat
Nigam Limited (RINL) is 3.0 million tonnes of liquid steel and
2.656 million tonnes of saleable steel. Against this RINL produced
3.357 million tonnes of liquid steel and 3.056 million tonnes
of saleable steel during the financial year 2002-03 thereby meeting
approximately 25 per cent of the country's demand for long steel
products.
In India the
total demand for long steel products is nearly 12 million tonnes.
Besides RINL, SAIL, TISCO and other secondary producers also cater
to this demand.
This Information
was given by the Minister of Steel, Shri Braja Kishore Tripathy
in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
