Union Cabinet approves ₹6,322 crore PLI scheme to boost the steel manufacturing industry

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Union Cabinet approves ₹6,322 crore PLI scheme to boost the steel manufacturing industry
Steel industryIANS
In a major development for the country's steel sector, the Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for the manufacturing of specialty steel, with an outlay of ₹6,322 crores.
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An official statement said that the scheme will boost the production of high-grade specialty steel in the country. Further, it will lead to enhanced exports and minimise dependence on imports for high-end steel.

The scheme is expected to bring in an investment of approximately ₹40,000 crores and capacity addition of 25 MT. The duration of the scheme will be 5 years, commencing from 2023-24 to 2027-28.

With a budgetary outlay of ₹6,322 crores, the PLI scheme would cover coated/plated steel products, high strength/wear-resistant steel, specialty rails, alloy steel products, steel wires, and electrical steel.

These steel products are used in a variety of applications which are both strategic and non-strategic and include white goods, automobile body parts and components, pipes for transportation of oil and gas, boilers, ballistic and armour sheets for defence applications, high-speed railway lines, turbine components, electrical steel meant for power transformers, and electric vehicles.

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India presently operates at the lower end of the value chain in the steel sector. Value-added steel grades are largely imported in India. This is because of the disabilities faced by the steel industry to the tune of $80-100 per ton, on account of higher logistics and infra cost, higher power and capital cost, and taxes and duties.

The objective of the PLI scheme for specialty grade steel is to address this disability by incentivizing the production of specialty steel within the country.

The scheme proposes to incentivize eligible manufacturers by paying between 4 percent to 12 percent incentive on incremental production. PLI incentive will also help the Indian steel industry mature in terms of technology and move up the value chain.

Any company registered in India, engaged in manufacturing of the identified specialty steel grades will be eligible to participate in the scheme.

It will, however, have to ensure that the steel used for making specialty steel is "melted and poured" in the country, thereby ensuring end-to-end manufacturing keeping in view of the Prime Minister's 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'.

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The PLI scheme for specialty steel is expected to play an important role in strengthening the domestic steel value chain and will incentivize the steel sector to invest in technological capability building to contribute to the global steel value chain by producing value-added steel.

Considering the additional production and investment, the scheme has an employment generation potential of about 5.25 lakh of which 68,000 will be direct and the rest will be indirect employment.


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