Ministry of Steel has constituted a Technical Committee, comprising officials of BIS and domain experts from the industry to examine applications for import of steel products whether the steel products being imported fall within the purview of the Steel Quality Control Order or otherwise. Based on the recommendation of Technical Committee, ministry issues requisite clarification to the applicants. The ministry has set up a dedicated QCO portal for processing the applications since July, 27 2020. As per the state-wise break-up 472 applications have been received in the Portal so far. State-wise break-up is at the Annexure.

 

Annexure

 

Sr. No.	State	Number of Applications
1	Bihar	1
2	Delhi	11
3	Gujarat	40
4	Haryana	51
5	Himachal Pradesh	5
6	Jharkhand	4
7	Karnataka	41
8	Madhya Pradesh	2
9	Maharashtra	108
10	Punjab	43
11	Rajasthan	7
12	Tamil Nadu	141
13	Telangana	9
14	Uttar Pradesh	6
15	West Bengal	3
Total		472

 

This information was given by the Union Minister for Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

 

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