Functions and Responsibility of Divisions

• General Office Administration and Housekeeping
• Protocol matters
• Procurement/maintenance of office equipment
• Departmental Security
• Medical Reimbursement Claims
• Issue of various items of official needs to the section/officers/officials of the Ministry
• Swachta Action Plan (SAP)
• All matters relating to acquisition of books, manuals, newspapers, journals, other reference books and maintaining catalogues for departmental Library, Record, Receipt & Dispatch.

Currently Headed by:- 

                     Shri Sanjay Roy (JS),   Shri Subhash Kumar (DS),   Shri Revati Raman  (US)

• Service-related matters like appointment, joining, confirmation, training, posting, transfer, DPC, promotion, leave, relieving, resignation, departmental/disciplinary enquiry, maintenance of Service Book, maintenance of e-HRMS / Probity / AVMS / SPARROW / Bhavishya portal, pay fixation, increment, MACP, pension, GPF, CGEGIS, NPS, grant of all type of advances (HBA/computer etc.), LTC, travelling allowance, Children Education Allowances, honorarium, intimation/permission under conduct rules, NOC for passport, APAR, attendance monitoring, recruitment rules, vacancy circular / advertisement, correspondence relating to fill-up the post, compassionate appointment.
• O&M/IWSU matters such as implementation of the provisions of the Manual of Office Procedure, Annual Inspection of the Divisions/Sections, preparation of Record Retention Schedule, Channel of Submission, Delegation of Financial Power
• Internal Complaint Committee
• Pension related matter of O/o DCIS
• Reservation Cell- Matters relating to reservation for SC/ST/OBC/EWS/PwD in respect of the Ministry
• Cash Section
• All legal matters pertaining to M/o Steel including LIMBS, Government cases coordination and maintenance of lists of counsels etc.
• RTI Section: Receiving and forwarding of RTI applications of applicants online & offline to concerned Section/Organization and monitoring the same till its disposal. Appointing CPIOs & Appellate Authorities for timely disposal of RTI Matters.
• Currently Headed by :- 

                     Ms. Sudershan Mendiratta (JS),     Ms. Sailaja Nanda (US)

• Matters involving general coordination with other Divisions of the Ministry & CPSEs (other than substantive subjects allocated to other Divisions).
• Comments on the Draft Cabinet Notes / CoS Notes / Bills received from other Ministries (other than substantive subjects allocated to other Divisions).
• Preparation of Annual Report of the Ministry of Steel.
• Monitoring of Central Public Grievance Redressal and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS).
• Preparation of Induction Material.
• Material for President’s Address to Parliament.
• Finalization and Updation of the Citizens’/Clients’ Charter of the Ministry.
• Circulation of general guidelines/orders/instructions issued by DPE and other line Ministries, concerning Central Public Sector Enterprises.
• PMO references/ Cabinet Secretariat references requiring general coordination.
• Senior Officers meeting by Secretary (Steel).
• Matters relating to Zonal Council Secretariat and Centre-State relations.
• Monitoring of Updation of e-Samiksha Portal
• Any other matter not specifically assigned to any Division.
• Parliament Cell: All Parliamentary matters relating to Ministry of Steel including Meetings of the Consultative Committee and Standing Committee; Visits of Parliamentary Committees/Study Group to PSUs/Projects under the Ministry of Steel. Parliament Questions, VIP references, Assurances, RTI, relating to the above.
• Currently Headed by :- 

                     Shri Sanjay Roy (JS),     Ms. Gurpreet Gadhok (Director),   Shri Revati Raman (US)

• Matters pertaining to the invitation for participation/support of Ministry of Steel in the various seminars/events/conferences organized by the Industry & Trade Associations on promotion of steel sector to disseminate the policy initiatives of Ministry and getting feedback of industries.
• Participation in Annual India International Trade Fair (IITF) along with CPSEs and private steel sector companies to disseminate policy initiatives of Ministry and to showcase achievements of Indian steel sector.
• Organizing India Steel Biennial International Exhibition & Conference on Steel sector to attract investments in steel sector in India and to promote export of quality steel products from India.
• Implementation of Made in India Branding of steel products by the steel industry.
• Currently Headed by :- 

                     Shri Vinod Kumar Tripathi (JS),   Shri S Sharad Rao (Dir),    Shri Pallav (US)

• All Board Level Appointments-Function/Government/Independent (including CMDs/MDs/Directors) of all CPSEs of the Ministry
• Administrative matters viz. pay fixation etc. of the above-Board Level officers.
• Coordination with DPE for common HR issues relating to CPSEs under Ministry of Steel (Specific HR issues of CPSEs are being dealt in respective project Division).
• Currently Headed by:-

                     Shri Sanjay Roy (JS),      Shri Subhendu Hota (US)

• All matters related to Official Language & allied matters.
• Implementation of Annual Programme issued by Department of OL, Ministry of Home Affairs for implementation of OL Policy of the Union. Progressive Use of Hindi.
• All Committees related to Hindi and Official Language.
• Measures for promotion of Hindi.
• Incentive Scheme for Original Work in Hindi:
• Meetings of Monitoring Committee for Official Language Implementation in PSUs
• Official Language Inspections by the Officers of the Ministry/ Parliamentary Committee on Official Language.
• Currently Headed by :-

                     Ms. Sudershan Mendiratta (JS),    Shri Ananda Bhoi (JD(OL))

• Providing technical advisory and support on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enablement in the Ministry.
• Maintenance and up gradation of website of Ministry of Steel.
• Development and implementation of services and portals of the Ministry.
• PRAYAS Dashboard - KPIs Integration.
• Operating and maintaining Local Area Network (LAN) enabled with Wi-Fi services.
• Providing Video Conferencing (VC) services for conducting meetings over VC.
• Implementation of e-Office in the Ministry.
• Cyber Security Measures.
• Capacity building in the area of Information Technology and Cyber security.
• Currently Headed by :-

                      Shri Vinod Kumar Tripathi (JS),    Shri S Sharad Rao (Dir),    Ms. Sita Narayanan (US)

• Finalization/review of IEBR/CAPEX of Steel PSUs
• Preparation of Statement of Budget Estimates
• Supplementary Demands for Grants
• Re-appropriation of funds and surrender of funds
• Compilation and laying of Output-Outcome Budget (OOMF) in the Parliament
• Preparation and laying of Detailed Demands for Grants in the Parliament
• Examination of Demands for Grants by Standing Committee on Coal and Steel related to the Budget Section
• Cash management/review of pace of expenditure.
• Currently Headed by :- 

                      Shri Ashish Chatterjee (AS & FA), Shri Amit Pankaj (DS),    Shri Mukesh Rai (US)

• Matters involving general coordination with other Divisions of the Ministry & CPSEs (other than substantive subjects allocated to other Divisions).
• Comments on the Draft Cabinet Notes / CoS Notes / Bills received from other Ministries (other than substantive subjects allocated to other Divisions).
• Preparation of Annual Report of the Ministry of Steel.
• Monitoring of Central Public Grievance Redressal and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS).
• Examination and concurrence of all financial proposals of the Ministry
• Monthly D.O. being sent to Department of Expenditure
• Monitoring of Digital Transactions of Ministry as well as of CPSEs
• Review of Government Guarantee taken by Steel CPSEs
• Examination and concurrence of foreign visit proposals
• Examination and concurrence for exemption in booking of air tickets through other than Authorized Travel Agents (ATAs).
• Monitoring of procurement through Government e-Marketplace (GeM) by the Ministry/CPSEs.
• Currently Headed by :- 

                    Shri Ashish Chatterjee(AS & FA),  Shri Amit Pankaj (DS),     Shri Mukesh Rai (US)

• Enhancing the capacity of Civil Servants by building their behavioural, domain and functional competencies through both offline/online training courses/immersions programmes
• To Roll out and implement Capacity Building Plan
• Coordination with Capacity Building Commission
• Follow-up on skill related recommendations of the Task Force for "Skill Development" towards Decarbonisation of steel sector
• Conducting Skill Gap Survey across the Indian iron and steel sector
• Coordination with the IISSSC / CGSC for skill related matters.
• Currently Headed by :-

                     Ms. Swapna Bhattacharya (DDG),   Shri Ramesh Kumar (DS),  Shri Deepak Kumar Sah (US)

• Policy matters related to major raw material (viz. Iron Ore, Coking Coal, Manganese, Dolomite, Limestone, chrome) used in steel making.
• Policy matters related to Ferro Alloys (viz. Ferro Chrome, Ferro Molybdenum, etc.).
• Procurement of Coking Coal abroad
• Advice to Ministry of Mines on Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 and the rules derived from it.
• Advice to Ministry of Coal on Allocation of Coal Blocks to Steel CPSEs and coal linkages to steel units/sponge units.
• Policy matters related to Critical Minerals and strategic Minerals, Rare Earth Elements and Lithium.
• Mining events abroad related to steel sector.
• Supply of Natural Gas to Steel Units.
• Environment Clearance (EC), Forest Clearance (FC) & Wildlife Clearance (WC) issues of CPSEs related to Mining Leases – Policy issues raised in ICMC Meetings and regional issues raised in FRCM meetings.
• Logistics matters related to Ministry of Shipping and Inland Waterways.
• Laying of Slurry Pipelines under Petroleum and Minerals Pipelines (Acquisition of User in Land) Act 1962.
• Proposals of CPSEs for seeking approval of Ministry of Steel for NOC from Ministry of Shipping for import of coal on CIF basis.
• Issues of logistics needs for iron & steel sectors, coordination with other Ministries, PSUs of Ministry of Steel and other stakeholders.
• Currently Headed by :- 

                     Shri Ashish Chatterjee (AS & FA), M.s Neha Verma (Director), Shri Mukesh Rai (US)

• National Steel Policy
• DMI&SP Policy
• Matters relating to growth & development of pig iron industry, steel providing industry, steel processing industry etc.
• Foreign Direct Investment in the Iron and Steel Sector and updating & monitoring information on the Foreign Investment Facilitation Portal (FIFP).
• Issues relating to SSI (other than substantive subjects allocated to other Divisions).
• Scheme of Ministry of Ports Shipping and Waterways (MoPSW) for promotion of flagging of merchant ships in India.
• Issues related to National Capital Goods Policy in coordination with Ministry of Heavy Industries.
• Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme.
• Steel Policy – Clusters
• Purvodaya
• Coordination with Private Steel Sector
• Industry 4.0
• Vision 2047
• Currently Headed by :-

                      Shri Abhijit Narendra (JS),  Shri Gopalakrishnan Ganesan (Director),   Shri Ravi Ranjan (US)

• All matters related to Green Steel.
• Matters regarding Climate Change, including GHG Emissions.
• Energy & Environment Management.
• Matters related to Conference of Parties (CoP) sessions.
• Green financing, tapping multilateral institutions for funding of the green transition.
• Carbon emission and monitoring.
• Circular Economy
• Steel Scrap Policy/Schemes
• Currently Headed by :-  

                      Shri Vinod Kumar Tripathi (JS),    Ms. Maimum Alam (Director),   Shri Ravi Shekhar (US)

• All matters pertaining to International Cooperation on issues not specifically assigned to any Division.
• Greenfield Investment Projects from overseas.
• Coordination of matters pertaining to Joint Ventures (JVs), MOUs/ Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation received from all Ministries/Departments of Government of India
• Matters pertaining to Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• Participation and follow up action with the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity (GFSEC)
• Inputs/material for preparation of Annual Reports in respect of International Cooperation.
• Currently Headed by :- 

                     Shri Vinod Kumar Tripathi (JS),    Shri S Sharad Rao (Dir),   Ms. Sita Narayanan (US)

• Monitoring the progress of all on-going and under tendering projects for examining the time and cost overrun of the projects.
• Analysis of the delays, if any, after duly examining the progress.
• Coordinating meetings of project heads of CPSEs in the Ministry to review the progress and to suggest corrective actions.
• Attending to references received from the Cabinet Secretariat and Prime Minister’s Office for monitoring of projects.
• Coordinates with Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) for issues pertaining with the Online Computerised Monitoring System (OCMS).
• Monitoring and coordinating issues related to Projects being monitored in PRAGATI Portal under PMO and Project Monitoring Group (PMG) under Cabinet Secretariat.
• Monitoring and facilitating resolution of issues relating to National Infrastructure Pipeline (NIP) Projects under Department of Economics Affairs of Ministry of Finance.
• Currently Headed by :- 

                     Shri Ashwini Kumar (EA),   Shri Raj Kumar (JD)

• Monthly DO letter from Secretary (Steel) to the Cabinet Secretary.
• Providing inputs on and analysis of development in steel sector for incorporation in Economic Survey.
• Preparation of a Monthly Overview of Indian Economy with Particular relevance to the Steel Sector on various economic indicators for Hon’ble Steel Minister.
• Preparation and Uploading of an Overview of Steel Sector.
• Analysis of the Physical and Financial performances of CPSEs of Ministry of Steel.
• Provide Comments on Whole Sale Price Index (WPI) to the Office of Economic Advisor, DPIIT, M/o Commerce and Industry.
• Currently Headed by :-

                    Shri Ashwini Kumar (EA),   Shri Raj Kumar (JD)

• Technical evaluation / disposal of specific work of technical nature besides rendering technical advice on all matters falling under the purview of Ministry of Steel.
• Research & Development scheme
• Guidelines for Safety in Iron & Steel Sector
• Standardization & Quality Control orders
• National Metallurgist Awards
• Safety, Disaster Management, Technology Upgradation of Steel Industry Issues related to Steel Consumption, Steel Consumer Council/Advisory Coucil & INSDAG.
• Co-ordination with all Ministries/Departments on Technical Matters.
• Currently Headed by :-

                     Shri Abhijit Narendra (JS),    Shri G Sarathy Raja (DS),   Shri YB Baghel (Assistant IA (IEDS))

• WTO and Bilateral & Regional Trade Agreements.
• EU-CBAM, TRQ, Safeguard Measures of other countries, Dumping etc.
• Trade Remedial Measures in Steel Sector.
• Rules of Origin in FTA/CEPA/PTA.
• Administration of Steel Import Monitoring System (SIMS).
• Tax Issues
• Tax Proposals for Union Budget pertaining to Steel Sector and its Raw Materials.
• GST & Customs related issues.
• RoDTEP Scheme.
• Currently Headed by:-

                     Shri Ashwini Kumar (EA),    Shri Nitin Jain (Director),      Shri Deepak Kumar Sah (US)

• Scrutiny of vigilance complaints and initiation of appropriate investigation measures;
• Furnishing comments / factual reports of the Ministry to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) on the enquiry / investigation reports involving Board Level Officers, wherever required
• Obtaining first and second stage advice of the CVC, wherever necessary;
• Obtaining Vigilance Clearance in respect of Board Level Officers for their appointment, confirmation, extension of service, etc.;
• Ensuring rotation of officials / officers holding the sensitive posts, as per CVC guidelines;
• Sending periodical reports / returns to CVC/DoPT.
• Matters related to immovable Property Returns of Officers and Staff working in this Ministry and Board Level Officers of Steel CPSEs.
• Matters related to appointment of Chief Vigilance Officers (CVOs) in the Steel CPSEs.
• Matters related to APARs of the CVOs of Steel CPSEs.
• Vigilance Awareness Week.
• Currently Headed by :- 

                     Shri Abhijit Narendra (JS),   Shri Gopalakrishnan Ganesan (Director),   Shri B K Sahoo (US)

• Secretary, Ministry of Steel is the Chief Accounting Authority. The Chief Controller of Accounts is the head of the Accounting Organization. The accounting organization comprises the Principal cum Pay & Accounts Office, Internal Audit Wing. The Pay and Accounts Office discharges its responsibilities with reference to finance and budget management, payment control and accounts including finalization and authorization of pensionary benefits to retiring/retired officials.

• Work related with statistical data/research ranging from price forecasting to skill demand estimation in the Indian iron and steel sector
• Planning and monitoring of statistical survey as per the requirement of the Ministry
• Reviewing and validating data being collected through implementation of the Collection of Statistics Act 2008 in indian iron and steel industry
• Coordination with the MoSPI, NITI Aayog, MEITY and other Ministries.
• Currently Headed by :-

                     Ms. Swapna Bhattacharya (DDG),     Shri Sanjeev Sharan Pandey (DD)

• Research Institutes BPNSI & NISST.
• Currently Headed by :- 

                     Shri Abhijit Narendra (JS),    Shri Gopalakrishnan Ganesan (Director)

• Steel Development Fund (SDF)
• Monitoring and furnishing data on production, consumption, export and import of iron & steel in the country etc
• All matters related to JPC.
• Currently Headed by :-

                     Shri Ashish Chatterjee (AS & FA),  Ms. Neha Verma (Director),   Shri Mukesh Rai (US)

• All matters relating to SAIL, Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Steel (except Board Level Appointments).
• Matters pertaining to ICVL.
• Currently Headed by:-

                     Shri Abhijit Narendra (JS),    Shri Gopalakrishnan Ganesan (Director),   Shri Ravi Ranjan (US)

• Matters relating to NMDC Ltd. and NMDC Steel Ltd. (NSL), Public Sector Undertakings under the Ministry of Steel (except Board Level Appointments)
• Currently Headed by:-

                    Shri Abhijit Narendra (JS),   Shri G Sarathy Raja (DS),  Shri Rajesh Kumar (US)

• All matters relating to RINL, Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Steel (except Board Level Appointments).
• All matters relating to EIL, OMDC & BSLC, Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Steel (except Board Level Appointments).
• Currently Headed by:-

                        Shri Sanjay Roy (JS),   Ms. Gurpreet Gadhok (Director),    Shri S Narayanswamy (US)

• All matter relating to KIOCL, Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Steel (except Board Level Appointments)
• Currently Headed by:-

               Shri Vinod Kumar Tripathi (JS),    Ms. Maimum Alam (Director),   Shri Ravi Shekhar  (US)

• ll matter relating to MECON Ltd., Public Sector Undertaking under the administrative control of Ministry of Steel (except Board Level Appointments)
• Currently Headed by:- 

                  Shri Vinod Kumar Tripathi (JS),   Shri S Sharad Rao (Dir),   Shri Pallav  (US)

• All matters relating to MSTC& FSNL, Public Sector Undertakings under the Ministry of Steel (except Board Level Appointments)
• All issues related to Mahindra MSTC Recycling Private Limited (MMRPL).

• Currently Headed by:-

          Ms. Swapna Bhattacharya (DDG),       Shri Ramesh Kumar (DS),   Shri Deepak Kumar Sah  (US)

• All matter relating to MOIL, Public Sector Undertaking under the Ministry of Steel (except Board Level Appointments)
• RTI / CPGRAM / e-Samiksha / VIP references / PMO references /Parliament Questions / Court Cases / Annual Report / Induction Material etc. related to above subjects will be dealt by the respective Divisions.
• Currently Headed by :- 

                       Shri Ashwini Kumar (EA),   Shri Nitin Jain (Director),   Shri Deepak Kumar Sah (US)