Steel Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia chairs 1st Meeting of Advisory Committees for Integrated Steel Plants and Secondary Sector industry
The Union
Minister of Steel & Civil Aviation, Jyotiraditya M Scindia chaired a
meeting of the two Advisory Committees formed for Integrated Steel Plants and
the Secondary Steel industry yesterday. The Minister of State for Steel and
Rural Development, Faggan Singh Kulaste was also present at the meeting.
Eminent members of the steel industry, associations, academia, senior retired
officials from the Government are members of the Committees.
In the first meeting held
yesterday, it was decided that these Committees shall deliberate on the issues
of importance pertaining to the steel sector.
Addressing the members of the Committee, the Minister
emphasised that the mantra of the Government is to make decision-making
participatory. There is a great amount of interplay between various other
sectors including logistics, coal & mines, the State Governments etc. The
purpose of forming Advisory Committees is to ensure active participation of
stakeholders to listen to the issues and possible course of action directly
from the stakeholders, which will ensure success of steel sector.
Issues to be dealt on priority were identified by both
the Advisory Committees.
Jyotiraditya M Scindia urged the industry to take active
part in the Advisory Committees and said that the periodicity of the meetings
will depend upon the industry’s desire to push forward to resolve issues common
to the sector.
Thanking the Minister, the Committee members welcomed the
idea of formation of the Committees and assured full cooperation for robust
development of the sector and achieving the targets set in the National Steel
Policy 2017.