New Delhi : Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), has recently launched a countrywide rural awareness campaign aimed at increasing steel usage in rural India. This was identified under the new National Steel Policy.
A meet was organised to christen SAIL Steel: Gaon Ki Orr and create awareness about SAIL steel products and the company’s extensive distribution network. This is in line with the aim to raise the country’s steel producing capacity to 300 million tonnes by 2030. The fourth such meet of the campaign in Northern Region was held at Sundernagar in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh on September 5, 2017. It was attended by more than 150 people, including local masons, micro-dealers of steel, area managers of HPCSS (Himachal Pradesh State Civil Supplies Corporation) & HIMFED (Himachal Pradesh State Cooperative Marketing And Consumer’s Federation Ltd), and local administrators such as tehsildars, superintending engineers and school principals and their family members.