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. As of June 2024, 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, H.D. Kumaraswamy, assisted by a Minister of State.
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 and steel and ferroalloys 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.
Schemes and Programmes Bharat Steel National Metallurgist Award Scheme Steel Import Monitoring System (SIMS)
Steel Consumers Council The members of the Steel Consumers Council 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.
Central Public Sector Undertakings Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) NMDC Limited Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) KIOCL Limited MECON Limited Manganese Ore Limited (MOIL) Metal Scrap Trade Corporation Limited, New Delhi (MSTC) Sponge Iron India Limited (SIIL) Bird Group of Companies
Cabinet Ministers Note: I/C Independent Charge Key: Died in office
PortraitMinisterTerm of officePolitical party MinistryPrime Minister From To Period Minister of Steel, Mines and Fuel Swaran Singh 17 April 1957 10 April 1962 Indian National Congress Nehru III Jawaharlal Nehru Minister of Steel and Heavy Industries Chidambaram Subramaniam 10 April 1962 21 November 1963 Indian National Congress Nehru IV Jawaharlal Nehru Minister of Steel, Mines and Heavy Engineering Chidambaram Subramaniam 21 November 1963 9 June 1964 Indian National Congress Nehru IV Jawaharlal Nehru Nanda I Gulzarilal Nanda Minister of Steel and Mines Neelam Sanjiva Reddy 9 June 1964 24 January 1966 Indian National Congress Shastri Lal Bahadur Shastri Nanda II Gulzarilal Nanda Minister of Iron and Steel Tribhuvan Narain Singh(Minister of State) 29 January 1966 13 March 1967 Indian National Congress Indira I Indira Gandhi Minister of Steel, Mines and Metals Marri Chenna Reddy 16 March 1967 24 April 1968 Indian National Congress Indira II Indira Gandhi Prakash Chandra Sethi(Minister of State) 24 April 1968 14 February 1969 Minister of Steel and Heavy Engineering C. M. Poonacha 14 February 1969 15 November 1969 Indian National Congress Indira II Indira Gandhi Swaran Singh 15 November 1969 27 June 1970 Indian National Congress (R) Bali Ram Bhagat 27 June 1970 18 March 1971 Mohan Kumaramangalam 18 March 1971 2 May 1971 Indira III Minister of Steel and Mines Mohan Kumaramangalam 2 May 1971 31 May 1973 Indian National Congress (R) Indira III Indira Gandhi Indira Gandhi(Prime Minister) 31 May 1973 23 July 1973 T. A. Pai 23 July 1973 11 January 1974 Keshav Dev Malviya 11 January 1974 10 October 1974 Chandrajit Yadav(Minister of State) 10 October 1974 24 March 1977 Biju Patnaik 26 March 1977 15 July 1979 Janata Party Desai Morarji Desai Morarji Desai(Prime Minister) 16 July 1979 28 July 1979 Minister of Steel, Mines and Coal Biju Patnaik 30 July 1979 14 January 1980 Janata Party (Secular) Charan Charan Singh Minister of Steel and Mines Pranab Mukherjee 16 January 1980 15 January 1982 Indian National Congress Indira IV Indira Gandhi N. D. Tiwari 15 January 1982 14 February 1983 N. K. P. Salve(Minister of State, I/C) 14 February 1983 31 October 1984 31 October 1984 31 December 1984 Rajiv I Rajiv Gandhi Minister of Steel, Mines and Coal Vasant Sathe 31 December 1984 25 September 1985 Indian National Congress Rajiv II Rajiv Gandhi Minister of Steel and Mines K. C. Pant 25 September 1985 12 April 1987 Indian National Congress Rajiv II Rajiv Gandhi Vasant Sathe 12 April 1987 25 July 1987 Makhan Lal Fotedar 25 July 1987 2 December 1989 Dinesh Goswami 6 December 1989 10 November 1990 Asom Gana Parishad Vishwanath V. P. Singh Ashoke Kumar Sen 21 November 1990 21 June 1991 Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) Chandra Shekhar Chandra Shekhar Minister of Steel Santosh Mohan Dev(Minister of State, I/C) 21 June 1991 16 May 1996 Indian National Congress Rao P. V. Narasimha Rao Atal Bihari Vajpayee(Prime Minister) 16 May 1996 1 June 1996 Bharatiya Janata Party Vajpayee I Self H. D. Deve Gowda(Prime Minister) 1 June 1996 29 June 1996 Janata Dal Deve Gowda H. D. Deve Gowda Minister of Steel and Mines Birendra Prasad Baishya 29 June 1996 19 March 1998 Asom Gana Parishad Deve Gowda H. D. Deve Gowda Gujral Inder Kumar Gujral Naveen Patnaik 19 March 1998 13 October 1999 Biju Janata Dal Vajpayee II Atal Bihari Vajpayee Minister of Steel Dilip Ray(Minister of State, I/C) 13 October 1999 27 May 2000 Biju Janata Dal Vajpayee III Atal Bihari Vajpayee Braja Kishore Tripathy(Minister of State, I/C) 27 May 2000 22 May 2004 Ram Vilas Paswan 23 May 2004 22 May 2009 Lok Janshakti Party Manmohan I Manmohan Singh Virbhadra Singh 28 May 2009 19 January 2011 Indian National Congress Manmohan II Beni Prasad Verma(Minister of State, I/C until 12 Jul 2011) 19 January 2011 26 May 2014 Narendra Singh Tomar 27 May 2014 5 July 2016 Bharatiya Janata Party Modi I Narendra Modi Chaudhary Birender Singh 5 July 2016 30 May 2019 Dharmendra Pradhan 31 May 2019 7 July 2021 Modi II Ramchandra Prasad Singh 7 July 2021 6 July 2022 Janata Dal (United) Jyotiraditya Scindia 6 July 2022 9 June 2024 Bharatiya Janata Party H.D. Kumaraswamy 10 June 2024 Incumbent Janata Dal (Secular) Modi III
Ministers of State
PortraitMinisterTerm of officePolitical party MinistryPrime Minister From To Period Minister of State for Steel, Mines and Fuel Keshav Dev Malviya 17 April 1957 10 April 1962 Indian National Congress Nehru III Jawaharlal Nehru Minister of State for Steel, Mines and Metals Prakash Chandra Sethi 13 March 1967 24 April 1968 Indian National Congress Indira II Indira Gandhi Minister of State for Steel and Heavy Engineering K. C. Pant 14 February 1969 27 June 1970 Indian National Congress (R) Indira II Indira Gandhi Minister of State for Steel and Mines Shah Nawaz Khan 2 May 1971 5 February 1973 Indian National Congress (R) Indira III Indira Gandhi Kariya Munda 14 August 1977 28 July 1979 Janata Party Desai Morarji Desai Minister of State for Steel, Mines and Coal P. M. Sayeed 4 August 1979 14 January 1980 Indian National Congress (Urs) Charan Charan Singh Kishore Chandra Deo 4 August 1979 14 January 1980 Minister of State for Steel and Mines Charanjit Chanana 15 January 1982 2 September 1982 Indian National Congress Indira IV Indira Gandhi Ram Dulari Sinha 15 January 1982 14 February 1983 Gargi Shankar Mishra 2 September 1982 6 September 1982 Minister of State for Steel, Mines and Coal K. Natwar Singh 31 December 1984 25 September 1985 Indian National Congress Rajiv II Rajiv Gandhi Minister of State for Steel and Mines Ram Dulari Sinha 25 September 1985 14 February 1988 Indian National Congress Rajiv II Rajiv Gandhi Ramanand Yadav 14 February 1988 12 April 1988 Yogendra Makwana 14 February 1988 2 October 1988 Mahaveer Prasad 4 July 1989 2 November 1989 Basavaraj Patil Anwari 21 November 1990 20 February 1991 Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya) Chandra Shekhar Chandra Shekhar Minister of State for Steel and Mines Ramesh Bais 19 March 1998 13 October 1999 Bharatiya Janata Party Vajpayee II Atal Bihari Vajpayee Minister of State for Steel Akhilesh Das 29 January 2006 6 April 2008 Indian National Congress Manmohan I Manmohan Singh Jitin Prasada 6 April 2008 22 May 2009 Sai Prathap Annayyagari 28 May 2009 19 January 2011 Manmohan II Vishnu Deo Sai 27 May 2014 30 May 2019 Bharatiya Janata Party Modi I Narendra Modi Faggan Singh Kulaste 31 May 2019 9 June 2024 Modi II Bhupathi Raju Srinivasa Varma 11 June 2024 Incumbent Modi III
Deputy Ministers No.PortraitMinisterTerm of officePolitical party MinistryPrime Minister From ToPeriod Deputy Minister of Steel and Heavy Industries1Prakash Chandra Sethi19621963Indian National Congress Nehru IVJawaharlal Nehru Deputy Minister of Steel, Mines and Heavy Engineering (1) Prakash Chandra Sethi19631964 Indian National Congress Nehru IVJawaharlal Nehru19641964 Nanda IGulzarilal Nanda Deputy Minister of Steel and Mines (1) Prakash Chandra Sethi19641966 Indian National Congress ShastriLal Bahadur Shastri19661966 Nanda IIGulzarilal Nanda Deputy Minister of Iron and Steel(1)Prakash Chandra Sethi19661967Indian National Congress Indira IIndira Gandhi Deputy Minister of Steel, Mines and Metals2Ram Sewak Chowdhary19671969Indian National Congress Indira IIndira Gandhi Deputy Minister of Steel and Heavy Engineering 3 Mohammad Shafi Qureshi19691971 Indian National Congress Indira I Indira Gandhi19711971 Indira II Deputy Minister of Steel and Mines4Subodh Chandra Hansda19731974 Indian National Congress Indira II Indira Gandhi5Sukhdev PrasadRajya Sabha MP for Uttar Pradesh}19731977
References
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