Ministry of Steel

Agency overview
Jurisdiction	Government of India
Headquarters	Ministry of Steel Udyog Bhawan Dr. Maulana Azad Road New Delhi,110011 New Delhi
Annual budget	₹70.15 crore (US$8.8 million) (2023-24 est.)[1]
Ministers responsible	Jyotiraditya Scindia, Cabinet Minister Faggan Singh Kulaste, Minister of State
Agency executive	Pradip Kumar Tripathi IAS, STEEL SECRETARY
Website	steel.gov.in

The Ministry of Steel is an executive branch agency of the Government of India that is responsible for formulating all policies regarding steel production, distribution and pricing in India.^[2] As of July 2021, the ministry is headed by a Secretary Rank IAS officer, who is its administrative head, while the political head is a minister of cabinet rank, Jyotiraditya Scindia, assisted by a Minister of State, Faggan Singh Kulaste.

Functions of the ministry

• Coordination of data from various sources for the growth of the iron and steel industry in India
• Formulation of policies in respect of production, pricing, distribution, import and export of iron & steel and ferro alloys
• Planning and development of and assistance to the entire iron and steel industry in the country
• Development of the input industries relating to iron ore, manganese ore, refractories and others required by the steel industry

Attached/subordinate offices and institutes

• Joint Plant Committee (JPC)
  • A select organisation whose goal is the promotion of steel, coordinating work of the main producers
• National Institute of Secondary Steel Technology (NISST)
  • NISST aims to be a single source for all the requirements of the secondary steel sector
• Biju Patnaik National Steel Institute
  • Situated in Puri, BPNSI is an institute of modern steel technology. It provides education and training, research and development, and consultancy to the steel sector.

Steel Consumers Council

The members of the Steel Consumers Council^{[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]} are nominated by the Minister of Steel. The tenure of the council was initially fixed for two years, and it was re-constituted on 25 February 2010. The term of the present council is up to 29 February 2012.^[10][11]

Central Public Sector Undertakings

• Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)
• National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC)
• Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL)
• Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd (KIOCL)
• MECON Limited
• Manganese Ore Limited (MOIL)
• MSTC Limited
• Sponge Iron India Limited (SIIL)
• Ferro Scrap Nigam Limited (FSNL)

Steel Ministers of India

#	Portrait	Name	Term of office			Prime Minister	Party
1		Swaran Singh	17 April 1957	10 April 1962	4 years, 358 days	Jawaharlal Nehru Gulzarilal Nanda	Indian National Congress
2		Chidambaram Subramaniam	10 April 1962	9 June 1964	2 years, 60 days
3		N. Sanjeeva Reddy	9 June 1964	24 January 1966	1 year, 229 days	Lal Bahadur Shastri
4		Tribhuvan Narain Singh	29 January 1966	13 March 1967	1 year, 43 days	Indira Gandhi
5		Marri Chenna Reddy	13 March 1967	24 April 1968	1 year, 42 days
6		Prakash Chandra Sethi	24 April 1968	14 February 1969	296 days
7		C. M. Poonacha	14 February 1969	15 November 1969	274 days
(1)		Swaran Singh	15 November 1969	27 June 1970	224 days
8		Bali Ram Bhagat	27 June 1970	18 March 1971	264 days
9		Mohan Kumaramangalam	18 March 1971	31 May 1973	2 years, 74 days
10		Indira Gandhi	6 June 1973	23 July 1973	47 days
11		T. A. Pai	23 July 1973	11 January 1974	172 days
12		Keshav Dev Malviya	11 January 1974	10 October 1974	272 days
13		Chandrajit Yadav (MoS)	10 October 1974	24 March 1977	2 years, 165 days
14		Biju Patnaik	26 March 1977	15 July 1979	2 years, 111 days	Morarji Desai	Janata Party
			30 July 1979	14 January 1980	168 days	Charan Singh	Janata Party (Secular)
15		Pranab Mukherjee	16 January 1980	15 January 1982	1 year, 364 days	Indira Gandhi	Indian National Congress
16		N. D. Tiwari	15 January 1982	14 February 1983	1 year, 30 days
17		N. K. P. Salve (Independent Charge)	14 February 1983	31 December 1984	1 year, 321 days	Indira Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi
18		Vasant Sathe	31 December 1984	25 September 1985	268 days	Rajiv Gandhi
19		K. C. Pant	25 September 1985	12 April 1987	1 year, 199 days
(18)		Vasant Sathe	12 April 1987	25 July 1987	104 days
20		Makhan Lal Fotedar	25 July 1987	2 December 1989	2 years, 130 days
21		Dinesh Goswami	6 December 1989	10 November 1990	339 days	V. P. Singh	Asom Gana Parishad
22		Ashoke Kumar Sen	21 November 1990	21 June 1991	212 days	Chandra Shekhar	Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya)
23		Santosh Mohan Dev	21 June 1991	16 May 1996	4 years, 330 days	P. V. Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress
24		Atal Bihari Vajpayee	16 May 1996	1 June 1996	16 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Bharatiya Janata Party
25		H. D. Deve Gowda	1 June 1996	29 June 1996	28 days	Deve Gowda	Janata Dal
26		Birendra Prasad Baishya	29 June 1996	19 March 1998	1 year, 263 days	Deve Gowda I. K. Gujral	Asom Gana Parishad
27		Naveen Patnaik	19 March 1998	13 October 1999	1 year, 208 days	Atal Bihari Vajpayee	Biju Janata Dal
28		Dilip Ray (Independent Charge)	13 October 1999	27 May 2000	227 days
29		Braja Kishore Tripathy (Independent Charge)	27 May 2000	22 May 2004	3 years, 361 days
30		Ram Vilas Paswan	22 May 2004	22 May 2009	5 years, 0 days	Manmohan Singh	Lok Janshakti Party
31		Virbhadra Singh	28 May 2009	19 January 2011	1 year, 236 days		Indian National Congress
32		Beni Prasad Verma (Independent Charge till 12-Jul-2011)	19 January 2011	26 May 2014	3 years, 127 days
33		Narendra Singh Tomar	26 May 2014	5 July 2016	2 years, 40 days	Narendra Modi	Bharatiya Janata Party
34		Birender Singh	5 July 2016	30 May 2019	2 years, 329 days
35		Dharmendra Pradhan	30 May 2019	7 July 2021	2 years, 38 days
36		Ramchandra Prasad Singh	7 July 2021	7 July 2022	1 year, 0 days		Janata Dal (United)
37		Jyotiraditya Scindia	07 July 2022	Incumbent	344 days		Bharatiya Janata Party

List of Ministers of State

Ministers of State in the Ministry of Steel

Minister of state	Portrait	Political party		Term		Days
Vishnudeo Sai		Bharatiya Janata Party		26 May 2014	30 May 2019	5 years, 4 days
Faggan Singh Kulaste				30 May 2019	Incumbent	4 years, 17 days