Over the past three years, steel imports from China have come down from 2.163 million metric tonnes to 1.562 million MT resulting in imposition of anti-dumping and countervailing measures on Chinese steel imports, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
Union Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in a written reply that steel being a deregulated sector, specific decision on recruitment of employees in private steel sector is taken by individual steel companies or investors on the basis of their requirement.
In the case of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), Steel PSUs, in the last three years and current year regular employment to about 4067 people have been provided.
He said out of 5684 identified as displaced families in setting up of Bhilai Steel Plant employment has been provided to 4468 under displaced category.
Employment to one of the dependents of locally displaced persons was provided in Bhilai Steel Plant since inception as a measure of rehabilitation to the families who were displaced on account of land acquisition for establishing the Steel Plant.
He said during 1986, the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) under the Ministry of Industry had issued guidelines vide letter dated 03.02.1986 regarding rehabilitation of locally displaced persons wherein it was specifically stated that “any understanding formal or informal in regards to employment to one member of the dispossessed family in the project stands withdrawn”.
Consequent upon this, the Management of Bhilai Steel Plant discontinued the system of calling of dependents of displaced persons for priority employment. Employment to displaced persons in Bhilai Steel Plant, SAIL is regulated in terms of the BPE guidelines as referred above & Supreme Court judgments in this regard, he added.
