These plans aim to generate more employment, strengthen the plants’ self-sustainability, and align with PM Modi’s ‘Make in India’ vision. The initiative has already begun with Minister of Steel and Heavy Industries H D Kumaraswamy personally visiting these plants and assessing revival strategies.

It also carries the PM’s target of bringing India’s steel production to 300 million tonnes by 2030. Aligned with this vision, Kumaraswamy is learnt to have started work in building India’s indigenous and nationalised plants to be more self-sufficient in terms of infrastructure and labour force.