Steel Plants with Captive Ore Mines
The Minister of Steel, Shri Beni Prasad Verma has said that as per information available in the Ministry of Steel, amongst the large integrated steel plants, Steel Authority of India Limited having its integrated steel plants at Bokaro (Jharkhand), Durgapur (West Bengal), Rourkela (Orissa), Burnpur (West Bengal), Bhilai (Chhattisgarh) and Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) meet a large portion of their requirement of iron ore from their own captive mines. All other major steel producers either partially meet their requirement from captive sources or obtain the entire requirement of iron ore from the market.
In a written reply in the Lok Sabha today he said, cost of production of steel is dependent upon several factors such as raw material, cost of transportation, technology, manpower, energy etc. However, iron ore being one of the major raw material inputs for iron and steel making, the primary steel producers having captive iron ore mines enjoy the relative benefit on cost of steel production.
He said, a Draft Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation), Bill, 2010 proposed to replace the existing Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation), Act, 1957, which governs the grant of mineral concessions for various minerals including iron ore is under consideration of a Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted in this regard.
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