Top 24 Steel Companies and Plants in India (2026)

India is the world’s second-largest steel producer, and its biggest plants rank among the largest steelworks anywhere. This guide profiles the industry honestly in two parts: first the 10 steel companies that anchor the sector, then the 14 largest individual plants, one by one. Every capacity figure is taken from an official source — a company annual report, an official company statement or a government release — and is dated, because expansions keep changing the order.

Two names in the company list need a health warning. Essar Steel and Tata Steel BSL appear in older rankings, but neither exists as an independent company today: Essar Steel became AM/NS India in December 2019, and Tata Steel BSL was merged into Tata Steel in November 2021. Their plants are still very much running, and both are profiled below under their current owners.

Quick answer

• India produced 152.18 million tonnes of crude steel in FY2024-25, second only to China (Press Information Bureau).
• The largest single plant is JSW Steel’s Vijayanagar Works in Karnataka, at 17.5 MTPA crude steel capacity (FY2024-25).
• The largest company by capacity is JSW Steel, with 35.7 MTPA consolidated crude steel capacity in FY2024-25.
• India’s installed crude steel capacity reached 200.3 MTPA in 2024-25 (Ministry of Steel), against a policy target of 300 MTPA by 2030-31.
• This article covers 10 companies and 14 plants. Two listed companies no longer exist independently, and the text says so where it matters.

India’s steel industry in numbers

The sector figures below come from the Ministry of Steel and the Press Information Bureau. They frame the company and plant profiles that follow: a fast-growing industry, still well short of the capacity its own policy targets.

• Crude steel production, FY2024-25: 152.18 million tonnes (PIB), keeping India second in the world behind China.
• Installed crude steel capacity: 200.3 MTPA in 2024-25, provisional (Ministry of Steel / Joint Plant Committee).
• Finished steel consumption, FY2024-25: 152.13 million tonnes, up 11.6% on the previous year (PIB).
• National Steel Policy 2017 targets for 2030-31: 300 MTPA of crude steel capacity, 255 million tonnes of production and 158 kg per-capita finished steel consumption.
• Public sector: SAIL (about 20 MTPA) and RINL (7.3 MTPA liquid steel) are the two government-owned steelmakers on this list.
• Private sector: JSW Steel and Tata Steel together account for the majority of the large integrated capacity profiled here.

Top 10 steel companies in India

The ten companies below are listed in the order the original guide used. Capacities are crude steel capacity for FY2024-25 unless a different measure is named. Two entries, Tata Steel BSL and Essar Steel, are status updates rather than live companies, and are labelled as such.

1. JSW Steel

JSW Steel is India’s largest steelmaker by capacity. Consolidated crude steel capacity stood at 35.7 MTPA in FY2024-25, including 1.5 MTPA in the USA; capacity within India was 34.2 MTPA. Consolidated crude steel production reached 27.79 million tonnes in FY2024-25, the company’s highest ever. Its integrated plants are Vijayanagar in Karnataka, Dolvi in Maharashtra and Salem in Tamil Nadu, and the company has stated a target of about 50 MTPA of domestic capacity by FY2030-31.

Key facts

• Headquarters: JSW Centre, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai
• Consolidated crude steel capacity: 35.7 MTPA (FY2024-25)
• Crude steel production: 27.79 million tonnes in FY2024-25, a record
• Site capacities (FY2024-25): Vijayanagar 17.5 MTPA, Dolvi 10 MTPA, Salem 1.15 MTPA
• Stated target: about 50 MTPA domestic capacity by FY2030-31

2. Tata Steel

Tata Steel runs India’s oldest steel business and its second-largest Indian capacity. Crude steel capacity in India was 26.6 MTPA in FY2024-25, with a further 8.7 MTPA overseas, giving a group total of about 35 MTPA. Indian crude steel production hit a record 21.68 million tonnes in FY2024-25. The Indian business rests on three large sites, Jamshedpur, Kalinganagar and Meramandali, all profiled in the plants section, and the company has stated an ambition to raise Indian capacity to 40 MTPA.

Key facts

• Registered office: Bombay House, Fort, Mumbai
• India crude steel capacity: 26.6 MTPA (FY2024-25); group about 35 MTPA
• India crude steel production: 21.68 million tonnes in FY2024-25, a record
• Site capacities: Jamshedpur 11 MTPA, Kalinganagar 8 MTPA, Meramandali 5.6 MTPA
• Stated ambition: 40 MTPA crude steel capacity in India

3. Jindal Steel

The company long known as Jindal Steel & Power shortened its name to Jindal Steel Limited in 2025, with the change effective from July 2025 following Registrar of Companies approval. Liquid steel capacity was 9.6 MTPA in FY2024-25, with an expansion programme designed to take it to 15.6 MTPA. The company reported production of 8.12 million tonnes in FY2024-25, its highest ever. Its steel plants are at Angul in Odisha and Raigarh in Chhattisgarh, with a further unit at Patratu in Jharkhand and a 9 MTPA pellet plant at Barbil in Odisha.

Key facts

• Former name: Jindal Steel & Power Limited (renamed in 2025)
• Registered office: O. P. Jindal Marg, Hisar, Haryana; corporate office in New Delhi
• Liquid steel capacity: 9.6 MTPA (FY2024-25), expanding towards 15.6 MTPA
• Production: 8.12 million tonnes in FY2024-25, a record (company presentation)
• Steel plants: Angul and Raigarh; pellet plant at Barbil, 9 MTPA

4. Steel Authority of India (SAIL)

SAIL is India’s largest public-sector steelmaker and a Maharatna company, with the Government of India holding about 65% of its equity. Crude steel capacity is about 20 MTPA and crude steel production was 19.17 million tonnes in FY2024-25. SAIL operates five integrated steel plants — Bhilai, Bokaro, Rourkela, Durgapur and IISCO Burnpur — each profiled below, and its annual report sets out a roadmap to lift capacity towards 35 MTPA by FY2030-31.

Key facts

• Headquarters: Ispat Bhawan, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
• Ownership: Government of India, about 65%; Maharatna status
• Crude steel capacity: about 20 MTPA (FY2024-25 annual report)
• Crude steel production: 19.17 million tonnes in FY2024-25
• Five integrated plants: Bhilai, Bokaro, Rourkela, Durgapur, IISCO Burnpur

5. Jindal Stainless

Jindal Stainless is India’s largest stainless steel manufacturer, in the company’s own words “India’s foremost and largest Swadeshi stainless steel manufacturer”. Melting capacity in India is 3.0 MTPA, split between Jajpur in Odisha (2.2 MTPA) and Hisar in Haryana (0.8 MTPA), and sales volume reached 2.37 million tonnes in FY2024-25. In March 2026 the company commissioned a 1.2 MTPA melt shop in Indonesia through a joint venture, taking group melting capacity to 4.2 MTPA including the 3.0 MTPA in India.

Key facts

• Registered office: O. P. Jindal Marg, Hisar, Haryana; corporate office in New Delhi
• India melt capacity: 3.0 MTPA — Jajpur 2.2 MTPA, Hisar 0.8 MTPA
• Sales volume: 2.37 million tonnes in FY2024-25
• Group melt capacity: 4.2 MTPA after the Indonesian melt shop commissioned in March 2026
• Product focus: stainless steel only, unlike the carbon-steel makers above

6. Tata Steel BSL — no longer a separate company

Tata Steel BSL still appears in older top-10 lists, but it has not existed as a separate company since 2021. Under a composite scheme of amalgamation sanctioned by the National Company Law Tribunal, Mumbai Bench, on 29 October 2021, Tata Steel BSL (formerly Bhushan Steel) was merged into Tata Steel Limited with effect from 11 November 2021.

Its one large asset, the integrated plant at Meramandali in Odisha, is therefore a Tata Steel plant today. It is profiled in the plants section as Tata Steel Meramandali, with a crude steel capacity of 5.6 MTPA.

Key facts

• Status: amalgamated into Tata Steel Limited, effective 11 November 2021
• Formerly: Bhushan Steel Limited
• Plant operated: Meramandali, Dhenkanal district, Odisha
• Meramandali crude steel capacity: 5.6 MTPA (now under Tata Steel)

7. Godawari Power and Ispat

Godawari Power and Ispat is an integrated steel and power producer based at Siltara in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Its chain runs from captive iron-ore mining through iron-ore pellets, sponge iron and steel billets to ferro alloys and captive power, rather than large-scale crude steel. The company’s May 2025 presentation lists a 2.7 MTPA pellet plant, 0.594 MTPA of sponge iron capacity, 0.525 MTPA of steel billets and 0.4 MTPA of hot rolling capacity. It belongs in this list for the completeness of its integrated model, not for crude steel tonnage.

Key facts

• Works and registered office: Industrial Area, Siltara, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
• Pellet capacity: 2.7 MTPA (company presentation, May 2025)
• Steel billets: 0.525 MTPA; sponge iron: 0.594 MTPA (May 2025)
• Also produces: ferro alloys, H.B. wire and captive power
• Raw material base: captive iron-ore mines

8. Electrosteel Castings

Electrosteel Castings is not a bulk steelmaker at all. It pioneered ductile iron (DI) pipes in India, setting up the first DI pipe plant in the Indian subcontinent, and describes itself as the country’s largest manufacturer of ductile iron fittings. Total production capacity is roughly 10 lakh tonnes a year across DI pipes, DI fittings and cast iron pipes, and its pipes serve water supply and sewerage networks. It appears in steel company lists because its foundries melt steel and iron at scale, but its tonnage is pipe tonnage, not crude steel.

Key facts

• Head office: Camac Street, Kolkata; registered office at Rajgangpur, Odisha
• DI pipe capacity: 9,00,000 tonnes per annum (company investor presentation)
• Total capacity: about 10 lakh tonnes a year across pipes, fittings and CI pipes
• Plants include: Khardah and Haldia (West Bengal), Srikalahasti (Andhra Pradesh), Elavur (Tamil Nadu)
• Position: first DI pipe plant in the Indian subcontinent; largest DI fittings maker in India

9. Essar Steel India — now AM/NS India

Essar Steel India no longer operates. The company was taken through the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, and on 16 December 2019 ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel completed their acquisition of it, creating ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India), owned 60% by ArcelorMittal and 40% by Nippon Steel. The Hazira steelworks that Essar built is now AM/NS India’s flagship plant and is profiled in the plants section under its current owner. Any ranking that still lists Essar Steel as a live company is out of date.

Key facts

• Status: acquired under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code; acquisition completed 16 December 2019
• Successor: AM/NS India (ArcelorMittal 60%, Nippon Steel 40%)
• Main asset transferred: the Hazira integrated plant, Gujarat
• Hazira crude steel capacity today: 9 MTPA under AM/NS India

10. Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (RINL)

RINL, better known as Vizag Steel, is a Schedule-A central public sector enterprise under the Ministry of Steel, wholly owned by the Government of India. It operates a single integrated plant, the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, with an installed capacity of 7.3 MTPA of liquid steel. In January 2025 the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a revival package of ₹11,440 crore for RINL — ₹10,300 crore as fresh equity and ₹1,140 crore of working-capital loan converted into preference capital — expressly to keep it running as a going concern.

Key facts

• Headquarters: Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
• Ownership: Government of India, 100%; Ministry of Steel
• Installed capacity: 7.3 MTPA liquid steel (PIB, January 2025)
• Revival package: ₹11,440 crore approved in January 2025
• Single-plant company: operates only the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant

The largest steel plants in India, one by one

Fourteen plants follow, in the order the original guide used. The table summarises them; the profiles give the detail. Capacities are crude steel unless the row says liquid steel, and each is the latest figure its operator or the government has published — several of these plants are mid-expansion, so treat the table as a dated snapshot, not a permanent ranking.

Plant	Location	Operator	Capacity (latest official figure)
JSW Steel Vijayanagar Works	Toranagallu, Karnataka	JSW Steel	17.5 MTPA crude steel (FY2024-25)
Jindal Steel Angul	Angul, Odisha	Jindal Steel	6.0 MTPA crude steel (FY2024-25), expanding to 12
Tata Steel Jamshedpur	Jamshedpur, Jharkhand	Tata Steel	11 MTPA crude steel
JSW Steel Dolvi Works	Raigad, Maharashtra	JSW Steel	10 MTPA crude steel
AM/NS India Hazira	Hazira, Gujarat	AM/NS India	9 MTPA crude steel
Tata Steel Kalinganagar	Jajpur, Odisha	Tata Steel	8 MTPA crude steel
Visakhapatnam Steel Plant	Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh	RINL	7.3 MTPA liquid steel
Bhilai Steel Plant	Bhilai, Chhattisgarh	SAIL	7 MTPA crude steel
Tata Steel Meramandali	Dhenkanal, Odisha	Tata Steel	5.6 MTPA crude steel
Bokaro Steel Plant	Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand	SAIL	4.65 MTPA crude steel
Rourkela Steel Plant	Rourkela, Odisha	SAIL	4.2 MTPA crude steel
Jindal Steel Raigarh	Raigarh, Chhattisgarh	Jindal Steel	3.6 MTPA crude steel
IISCO Steel Plant	Burnpur, West Bengal	SAIL	2.5 MTPA crude steel
Durgapur Steel Plant	Durgapur, West Bengal	SAIL	2.2 MTPA crude steel

1. JSW Steel Vijayanagar Works — Toranagallu, Karnataka

Vijayanagar is the largest single-location steel plant in India, a description JSW Steel uses in its own reporting. Crude steel capacity stood at 17.5 MTPA in FY2024-25, a figure that includes 1.7 MTPA at the JSW Vijayanagar Metallics unit that was still under commissioning at the year end. A 5 MTPA expansion at that unit was commissioned and ramping up during the year, and a planned upgrade of Blast Furnace 3 is intended to take the site to 19 MTPA.

Key facts

• Operator: JSW Steel
• Crude steel capacity: 17.5 MTPA (FY2024-25), including 1.7 MTPA under commissioning
• Status: India’s largest single-location steel facility (company statement)
• Next step: Blast Furnace 3 upgrade planned to lift capacity to 19 MTPA

2. Jindal Steel Angul — Angul, Odisha

Angul is Jindal Steel’s growth engine and the plant most often misreported in rankings. Its steel melt shop capacity was 6.0 MTPA in FY2024-25, with an expansion to 12.0 MTPA under way — the 12 MTPA figure quoted in many lists is the target, not the achieved capacity. Angul also hosts what the company calls the world’s first and largest coal gasification plant for steelmaking, feeding a 1.8 MTPA direct reduced iron unit, and the chairman has stated an ambition to reach 25.2 MTPA by 2030.

Key facts

• Operator: Jindal Steel
• Steel melt shop capacity: 6.0 MTPA (FY2024-25), expanding to 12.0 MTPA
• Direct reduced iron: 1.8 MTPA, using gas from the coal gasification plant
• Company claim: world’s first and largest coal gasification plant for steelmaking
• Stated ambition: 25.2 MTPA by 2030 (chairman’s statement, January 2025)

3. Tata Steel Jamshedpur — Jamshedpur, Jharkhand

Jamshedpur is India’s oldest integrated steel facility, described by Tata Steel as continuously operating for over a century. Steel production began here on 16 February 1912, four and a half years after the company was registered in August 1907, and the works has been rebuilt repeatedly since. Capacity today is 11 MTPA of crude steel (FY2024-25 environment statement), and Jamshedpur was the first site in India to receive ResponsibleSteel certification, later followed by Kalinganagar and Meramandali.

Key facts

• Operator: Tata Steel
• Crude steel capacity: 11 MTPA (FY2024-25)
• Steel production began: 16 February 1912 (first blast furnace blown in December 1911)
• Distinction: India’s oldest integrated steel facility; first ResponsibleSteel-certified site in India

4. JSW Steel Dolvi Works — Raigad, Maharashtra

Dolvi, on the Maharashtra coast near Mumbai, is JSW Steel’s second integrated plant. JSW acquired it in 2010 at 3.3 MTPA and has grown it by brownfield expansion since; a 5 MTPA expansion completed in FY2021-22 took capacity from 5 MTPA to the present 10 MTPA of crude steel. A further expansion, to 15 MTPA by September 2027, has been announced in the company’s FY2024-25 reporting.

Key facts

• Operator: JSW Steel
• Crude steel capacity: 10 MTPA
• Growth: acquired at 3.3 MTPA in 2010; 5 MTPA expansion completed in FY2021-22
• Announced: expansion to 15 MTPA by September 2027

5. AM/NS India Hazira — Hazira, Gujarat

Hazira is the flagship plant of AM/NS India, the joint venture that took over Essar Steel in December 2019. Crude steelmaking capacity is 9 MTPA, supported by 20 MTPA of pellet capacity, and the company calls Hazira one of the largest single-location flat steel plants in the world. An expansion of about 6 MTPA, taking Hazira to roughly 15 MTPA, was officially announced in September 2022 in two phases; the company’s long-term goal for the site is 24 MTPA.

Key facts

• Operator: AM/NS India (ArcelorMittal 60%, Nippon Steel 40%)
• Crude steel capacity: 9 MTPA; pellet capacity 20 MTPA
• Earlier owner: Essar Steel, until December 2019
• Expansion: about 6 MTPA announced in 2022, towards 15 MTPA; long-term goal 24 MTPA

6. Tata Steel Kalinganagar — Jajpur, Odisha

Kalinganagar is Tata Steel’s newest greenfield plant and the centrepiece of its recent growth. The first phase, 3 MTPA, was dedicated to Odisha in November 2015. Phase II lifted capacity to 8 MTPA: India’s largest blast furnace was commissioned at the site on 20 September 2024, and the expanded plant, built with an investment of ₹27,000 crore, was inaugurated on 22 May 2025.

Key facts

• Operator: Tata Steel
• Crude steel capacity: 8 MTPA after Phase II (2025)
• Phase I: 3 MTPA, dedicated 18 November 2015
• Phase II: India’s largest blast furnace commissioned 20 September 2024; inaugurated 22 May 2025

7. Visakhapatnam Steel Plant — Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

The Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is RINL’s only plant and, as the Comptroller and Auditor General’s reporting records, the first shore-based integrated steel plant in India, sited on the coast to receive imported raw materials by sea. It began with 3 MTPA of capacity; the first blast furnace was dedicated in March 1990 and full-fledged operations commenced in 1992-93. Successive expansions have taken installed capacity to 7.3 MTPA of liquid steel.

Key facts

• Operator: Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd. (RINL)
• Installed capacity: 7.3 MTPA liquid steel
• Distinction: India’s first shore-based integrated steel plant
• Milestones: first blast furnace dedicated 20 March 1990; full operations from 1992-93

8. Bhilai Steel Plant — Bhilai, Chhattisgarh

Bhilai, SAIL’s flagship, was established in 1955 with assistance from the former USSR and commissioned in 1959. After SAIL’s modernisation and expansion programme, the plant’s capacity stands at 7.5 MT of hot metal and 7 MT of crude steel (SAIL’s official plant particulars). Bhilai is best known as the rail plant: SAIL states it is India’s largest producer and supplier of rails for Indian Railways, rolling single-piece rails 130 metres long and welded panels of 260 metres.

Key facts

• Operator: SAIL
• Capacity after modernisation: 7 MT crude steel; 7.5 MT hot metal
• Commissioned: 1959, built with assistance from the former USSR
• Speciality: rails — India’s largest rail supplier to Indian Railways; 130 m single-piece rails

9. Tata Steel Meramandali — Dhenkanal, Odisha

Meramandali was built by Bhushan Steel and came to Tata Steel through the insolvency process: Bamnipal Steel, a Tata Steel subsidiary, acquired control on 18 May 2018 under the NCLT-approved resolution plan, and the operating company, renamed Tata Steel BSL, was merged into Tata Steel in 2021. The plant’s crude steel capacity is 5.6 MTPA, and Tata Steel’s environment statement records production of 5.19 million tonnes in FY2024-25. An expansion to 7.1 MTPA has been proposed through the environmental clearance process but is not current capacity.

Key facts

• Operator: Tata Steel
• Crude steel capacity: 5.6 MTPA; FY2024-25 production 5.19 million tonnes
• History: built by Bhushan Steel; acquired by Tata Steel group in May 2018
• Note: expansion to 7.1 MTPA proposed, not yet capacity

10. Bokaro Steel Plant — Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand

Bokaro was built with Soviet collaboration, agreed in January 1965; its first blast furnace was commissioned on 2 October 1972 and the first 1.7 MT phase was completed in 1978. It is SAIL’s flat-products specialist, rolling hot and cold rolled coils and sheets, tin mill black plate and galvanised sheets. SAIL’s latest stated crude steel capacity for the plant is 4.65 MTPA, and an expansion to 7.25 MTPA of crude steel is under way — larger figures sometimes quoted for Bokaro (5.25 or 7.55 MTPA) are hot metal numbers, not crude steel.

Key facts

• Operator: SAIL
• Crude steel capacity: 4.65 MTPA (SAIL statement, 2026)
• Built with Soviet collaboration; first blast furnace commissioned 2 October 1972
• Products: flat products — HR and CR coils and sheets, galvanised sheets, tin mill black plate
• Expansion: crude steel capacity planned to rise to 7.25 MTPA

11. Rourkela Steel Plant — Rourkela, Odisha

Rourkela was the first integrated steel plant in India’s public sector, set up with German collaboration at an initial 1 MTPA; its first blast furnace, Parvati, was lit in February 1959. Modernisation and expansion have taken it to 4.5 MTPA of hot metal and 4.2 MTPA of crude steel, and the modernised plant was dedicated in April 2015. Its output leans towards plates, hot rolled coils, ERW and spiral-welded pipes and cold-rolled non-oriented electrical steel.

Key facts

• Operator: SAIL
• Capacity after modernisation: 4.2 MTPA crude steel; 4.5 MTPA hot metal
• Distinction: first integrated public-sector steel plant in India; German collaboration
• First blast furnace operational: February 1959
• Products: plates, HR coils, ERW and spiral pipes, CRNO electrical steel

12. Jindal Steel Raigarh — Raigarh, Chhattisgarh

Raigarh is Jindal Steel’s older integrated plant, rated at 3.6 MTPA in the company’s official FY2025-26 presentations. The site houses what the company documents describe as the world’s largest coal-based sponge iron (DRI) plant, and a 1 MTPA rail and universal beam mill that rolls rails up to 121 metres long, supplied as welded panels of up to 260 metres in normal and head-hardened grades. A plate-cum-coil mill produces plates up to 3,500 mm wide.

Key facts

• Operator: Jindal Steel
• Capacity: 3.6 MTPA integrated steel plant (official presentation, August 2025)
• Company claim: world’s largest coal-based sponge iron plant on site
• Rail mill: 1 MTPA; rails rolled to 121 m, welded panels to 260 m
• Plate-cum-coil mill: plates up to 3,500 mm wide

13. IISCO Steel Plant — Burnpur, West Bengal

IISCO is one of India’s oldest iron and steel names: the enterprise was established in 1918 and first produced iron at Hirapur, later Burnpur, in 1922. IISCO was amalgamated with SAIL on 16 February 2006 and renamed IISCO Steel Plant. A modernisation and expansion lifted crude steel capacity from 0.55 MTPA to 2.5 MTPA, and the modernised plant was dedicated to the nation on 10 May 2015. A further expansion, towards 7.1 MTPA, features in SAIL’s current project reporting, but 2.5 MTPA remains the plant’s capacity today.

Key facts

• Operator: SAIL
• Crude steel capacity: 2.5 MTPA after modernisation
• Origins: established 1918; iron first produced at Burnpur in 1922
• Modernised plant dedicated: 10 May 2015
• Caution: the 7.1 MTPA figure in project documents is a proposed expansion, not current capacity

14. Durgapur Steel Plant — Durgapur, West Bengal

Durgapur was set up with British collaboration in 1959 at 1 MTPA of crude steel. Modernisation in the 1990s took it to 1.8 MTPA, and the recently completed modernisation and expansion plan set present capacity at 2.45 MTPA of hot metal and 2.2 MTPA of crude steel (SAIL). The plant is a long-products specialist and, in SAIL’s words, the only producer of forged railway wheels and axles in the country, supplying Indian Railways from its wheel and axle plant.

Key facts

• Operator: SAIL
• Present capacity: 2.2 MTPA crude steel; 2.45 MTPA hot metal
• Set up: 1959, with British collaboration, at 1 MTPA
• Speciality: forged railway wheels and axles — the only producer in India (SAIL)

How to read these numbers

Steel statistics mix several different measures, and most misleading rankings come from confusing them. The points below explain the basis of every figure in this article.

• Capacity is not production. Capacity is what a plant could make in a year; production is what it did make. Both are given above, each labelled.
• Crude steel, liquid steel and saleable steel differ. Liquid steel is measured at the melt shop, crude steel after casting, and saleable steel after finishing losses. RINL’s 7.3 MTPA is liquid steel; most other figures here are crude steel.
• Figures are dated on purpose. Most capacities are FY2024-25 values from annual reports and official statements. Where a newer official statement exists, its date is given instead.
• Expansions change the ranking. Angul (to 12 MTPA), Dolvi (to 15 MTPA), Hazira (to about 15 MTPA) and Bokaro (to 7.25 MTPA) are all mid-expansion, so this order will not hold for long.
• Not all tonnage is comparable. Jindal Stainless melts stainless steel, Godawari Power and Ispat is pellet- and billet-led, and Electrosteel Castings makes pipes; none of those figures should be ranked against crude steel capacity.
• Company totals and plant totals answer different questions. JSW Steel’s 35.7 MTPA is a group figure including overseas units; Vijayanagar’s 17.5 MTPA is a single site. This article counts 10 companies and 14 plants, and keeps the two lists separate.

Frequently asked questions

Which is the largest steel plant in India?

JSW Steel’s Vijayanagar Works at Toranagallu, Karnataka, with 17.5 MTPA of crude steel capacity in FY2024-25. JSW Steel itself describes Vijayanagar as the largest single-location steel-producing facility in India. The next largest single sites are Tata Steel Jamshedpur (11 MTPA) and JSW Steel Dolvi (10 MTPA).

Which is the largest steel company in India?

By capacity, JSW Steel: 35.7 MTPA consolidated crude steel capacity in FY2024-25, of which 34.2 MTPA is in India. Tata Steel is second on Indian capacity at 26.6 MTPA, and SAIL, at about 20 MTPA, is the largest public-sector steelmaker.

How much steel does India produce?

India produced 152.18 million tonnes of crude steel in FY2024-25 (Press Information Bureau), making it the world’s second-largest producer behind China. Installed crude steel capacity reached 200.3 MTPA in 2024-25, and finished steel consumption was 152.13 million tonnes.

What happened to Essar Steel?

Essar Steel India was resolved under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel completed its acquisition on 16 December 2019 and renamed the business AM/NS India, owned 60:40 between them. Its Hazira plant continues to operate at 9 MTPA under the new owner.

Is Tata Steel BSL still a separate company?

No. Tata Steel BSL, formerly Bhushan Steel, was amalgamated into Tata Steel Limited under a scheme sanctioned by the NCLT in October 2021, effective 11 November 2021. Its Meramandali plant now operates as Tata Steel Meramandali.

What is India’s 300 MTPA steel target?

The National Steel Policy 2017 targets 300 MTPA of crude steel capacity by 2030-31, alongside 255 million tonnes of production and 158 kg per-capita finished steel consumption. Against that target, installed capacity in 2024-25 was 200.3 MTPA, so roughly another 100 MTPA is expected to be added by the end of the decade.