STEPS TO PROMOTE CONSUMPTION OF STEEL
The steel plants
determine their production targets keeping in view their capacity
and the market demand for different type of products. Domestic
production increases in response to the increase in consumption
levels. The Government have taken various initiatives to increase
consumption. These are constitution of a National Campaign Committee
to promote steel consumption through development of markets especially
in the rural areas, encouraging usage of steel in new application
areas such as grain storage systems, crash barriers in highways
and express ways, providing financial support to R&D venture
in iron and steel sector to reduce production cost, constitution
of a Committee to augment use of domestic steel in the automobile
sector, organising seminars for dissemination of knowledge on
the use of steel and setting up of service centres to supply products
as per the specific needs of the consumers.
