57% share in national output, yet secondary steel makers' voice is unheard

The country will never achieve the 300 mn tonne capacity target by 2030-31 if this segment continues to be ignored

Even while the secondary producers had a share of 57 per cent of India’s crude steel production of 101.4 million tonnes (mt) in 2017, their presence in the industry has always been overshadowed by a few, but very large in capacity, integrated steel mills using the blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) route. It will be noticed that any discussion on steel in newspapers and other platforms centres on the challenges before integrated producers at the near exclusion of the secondary sector.

It is only now that the secondary sector comprising electric arc furnaces (EAFs), induction furnaces (IFs), standalone rolling