CREATE AWARENESS TO INCREASE CONSUMPTION
OF ALUMINIUM-SHRI BAIS
Union Minister for
Mines Shri Ramesh Bais has advised Aluminium Association of India
and its members, Bharat Aluminium Company(BALCO), National Aluminium
Company(NALCO), Hindustan Aluminium Company(HINDALCO), Jawaharlal
National Aluminium Research, Development and Design Centre(JNARDDC)
and the secondary producers of aluminium to create awareness in
the concerned ministries, departments, automobile industries and
infrastructure sector to use more aluminium. He assured that mines
Ministry would lend its full support to this plan of action. While
he agreed that aluminium production should be augmented, he observed
that unless the per capita consumption of aluminum is increased,
more production will only be counter yielding. He was briefed
by the above organisations that per capita consumption in India
was as low as 0.5 kg against 2.9 kg in China.
The Minister
asked these organisations to give wide presentations and create
a mind-set to use more aluminium in construction, automobile,
rail wagon and ship building, power and transmission sectors.
He desired that a national compaign should be launched to popularise
use of aluminum in rural and urban house-hold materials. Experts
from Aluminium Industry briefed that it would be a potential sector
for growth and Government should take steps to increase consumption
and revise the duty structure, so that downstream and end product
producers get benefited. This would lead to desired growth in
consumption.
The Secretary,
Mines Dr. A.K. Kundra and senior officials of the Ministry and
Aluminium Sector attended the meeting.
