The domestic steel sector has attracted a staggering investment of about Rs 11 lakh crore, Minister of State for Steel A Sai Prathap said
here today.
“The opportunity in steel sector has brought in a large number of intending investors to commit nearly 276 million tonnes of additional steel production capacity in the country.
This consists of nearly 222 MoUs signed between the investors and various state governments mostly in the states of Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, amounting to Rs 11 lakh crore,” Prathap was quoted as saying in a statement from SAIL. He inaugurated the ‘Steel Pavilion’ at the India International Trade Fair (IITF), 2009.
Steel PSUs like– SAIL, RINL, NMDC, as well major private producers like Tata Steel, Essar and Jindal Steel & Power Limited will showcase their products here.
Prathap, who did not give a time frame for these investments to fructify, was also quoted as saying that SAIL and RINL will enhance their annual production capacities to about 23 million tonnes and 6.2 million tonnes by 2012.
SAIL at present has an annual production capacity of about 14 million tonnes, while that of RINL is 3.2 million tonnes.
It is expected that, by the year 2012 India will be having a steel production capacity of 124 million tonnes, against the existing capacity of 65 million tonnes, the statement said.
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