In his address, Poundrik said speciality steel is still one area where more is needed to be done. The government brought a PLI to incentivise specialities steel but the offtake was not as expected.
“So we are bringing another round of PLI so that we can get more interest in the speciality steel business,” he said.
Later speaking to PTI, the secretary said the government had launched Rs 6,400 crore PLI Scheme for speciality steel, out of that only Rs 2,600 crore could be allocated.
Speciality steel is high grades used in sectors like defence, automobile, and electrical among others.