The Joint Plant Committee (JPC), which comes under the Ministry of Steel, in its latest report has showed that crude steel output of India remained almost flat at 8.662 million tonne (MT) during April 2019, as compared to 8.653 MT during April 2018, up by 0.10 per cent.
According to the data, the production of hot metal was 1.4 per cent down at 5.825 MT in the month under review, against 5.907 MT in April 2018. Besides, the output of pig iron grew 3.9 per cent to 0.537 MT in April, compared with about 0.517 MT in the same month a year ago.
The data said state-run Steel Authority of India, Rashtriya Ispat Nigam along with private firms Tata Steel, Essar Steel, JSW Steel, and Jindal Steel and Power produced 5.082 MT and the remaining 3.58 MT came from other producers. Meanwhile, India has set an ambitious target of increasing its crude steel production capacity to 300 MT by 2030-31.
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