This brief analyses four key sectors of the manufacturing industry: iron and steel, cement, ammonia and chemicals (primarily petrochemicals), which have the highest emissions intensity of production. The analysis reveals that the opportunities to decarbonise the manufacturing sector are aplenty.

NMDC Limited (Company) is a Central Public Sector Enterprise under the Ministry of Steel mainly carrying on iron ore mining in the States of Chhattisgarh and Karnataka. The Performance Audit on Operational Performance of NMDC Limited was conducted covering the period from 2012-13 to 2016-17.

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Accident in Blast Furnace-3 of RINL, 26/06/2019. The furnace has been operating with an average production rate of 7800 tonnes/day. After restoration, the furnace was operating at 7900 tonnes/day (7 days average) which is within the normal operating range.

Materials are the building blocks of society, making up the buildings, infrastructure, equipment and goods that enable businesses and people to carry out their daily activities.

The Standing Committee on Coal and Steel (2018-19) present this Forty-Eighth Report of the Standing Committee on Coal and Steel (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on "CSR Activities in Steel PSUs" relating to the Ministry of Steel.