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New Delhi : The total steel production capacity of the country at present is 143.91 million tonnes. As per Indian Mineral Yearbook, 2019 published by Indian Bureau of Mines, there were 254 reporting mines in 2018-19 of which 35 mines were in the Public Sector and 219 in Private Sector.
This information was given by Union Minister for Steel Ram Chandra Prasad Singh in a written reply in Lok Sabha on July 19, 2021, according toa PIB release.
The details of production, consumption, export and import of finished steel for the last two years and current year are as following:
| Year | Total Finished Steel (million tonnes) | |||
| Production | Consumption | Export | Import | |
| 2019-20 | 102.62 | 100.17 | 8.36 | 6.77 |
| 2020-21 | 96.20 | 94.89 | 10.78 | 4.75 |
| April-June, 2021* | 26.35 | 24.85 | 3.56 | 1.16 |
| Source: Joint Plant Committee (JPC); *provisional | ||||