Saturday, September 09, 2006 18:26 IST <\/p>\n
Ministry of Steel <\/p>\n
The main steel producers agree to keep prices of steel at reasonable level. This follows an appeal by the Union Minister for Steel, Shri Ram Vilas Paswan that the prices of steel should be kept at a reasonable level to safeguard the interests of the common man in accordance with the UPA\u2019s common minimum programme. A meeting of the Steel producers held under the chairmanship of Shri R. S. Pandey, Secretary, Ministry of Steel here took the following decisions:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The producers will make available items of common consumption in the rural districts\/blocks through their dealer network at the same price as applicable at Metros. Cost of transportation as well as distributors\/wholesalers\u2019 margin will be bone by the producers. This would result in relief of about Rs.600 -1000 per tone to the individual customer in hinterland. It was further agreed that the concern of the common man will be kept in view by the producers while fixing prices of such items. <\/p>\n
All the main producers will adopt villages around their plants and as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), help develop these villages as model steel villages. Appropriate schemes in the areas of health, education, livelihood promotion through agriculture and\/or small scale industries will be drawn preferably in conjunction with Government\u2019s development schemes operated in the area. In such endeavours use of steel will specially be made in items such as storage beans, bullock carts, buildings such as school buildings, panchayat halls, health centre buildings, water tanks, waiting sheds etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}