| Steel Production | SAIL | Million Tonne | |
| FY2021-22 | Apr.21 | May.21 | Jun.21 |
| Hot Metal | 1.371 | 1.381 | 1.382 |
| Crude Steel | 1.23 | 1.237 | 1.303 |
| Saleable Steel | 1.256 | 1.242 | 1.271 |
| Iron Ore | Apr.21 | May.21 | Jun.21 |
| NMDC | 3.13 | 2.27 | 2.98 |
Ministry of Steel, Government of India released the data for steel production in the country during the month of June 2021 on 12 July 2021.
The production and consumption of steel during the first quarter of the fiscal year 2021-22 (Q1:FY22) registered significant improvement over their respective levels in Q1:FY21 which saw a significant contraction due to COVID-19 lockdown with production of crude steel, finished steel and consumption of steel increasing by 60.6%, 87.7% and 103.1%, respectively.
However, production and consumption of steel was comparable to the levels achieved during Q1 of the prepandemic previous two years i.e., FY20 and FY19 with production of crude steel and finished steel during Q1:FY22 being higher than that during Q1:FY19 but marginally lower than Q1:FY20 while consumption of finished steel in Q1:FY22 remained higher than consumption during Q1 in both these years. Production and/or consumption of crude and finished steel was lower than that achieved during the preceding quarter i.e., Q4:FY21.
During the month of June 2021, production of Hot Metal, Crude Steel and Saleable Steel by SAIL stood at 1.382 MT, 1.303 MT and 1.271 MT respectively which is an improvement of 44%, 46% and 35% over their respective performance during June’20 and an increase of 0.11%, 5.35% and 2.29% M-o-M. The cumulative production performance during Q1:FY22 for Hot Metal, Crude Steel and Saleable Steel stood at 4.13 MT, 3.77 MT and 3.77 MT respectively which is an improvement of 54.4%, 52.4% and 65.5% respectively over the performance during CPLY. Saleable Steel Sales during June’21 at 1.06 MT was lower by 17.2% over CPLY and 2.6% M-o-M. The cumulative sales performance during Q1:FY22 stood at 3.34 MT which is a growth of 49.2% over CPLY.
