The Steel and Steel Products (Quality Control) Orders, 2012 have been implemented for 15 steel products, having direct bearing on safety and security of human beings and infrastructure. As per the laid down procedure, all the steel production units are required to have requisite infrastructure so as to obtain license from Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), in order to make them eligible to use the Standard Marks of BIS in their products. The product & standard wise number of licenses granted by BIS, who have the requisite infrastructure, is annexed.
Annexure
| Sl. No | Indian Standard number | Product Description | No. of Licenses
issued by BIS |
| 1. | 1785(Part 1) | Specification for plain hard-drawn steel wire for pre-stressed concrete; Part 1 Cold-drawn stress relieved wire. | 7 |
| 2. | 1785(Part 2) | Specification for plain hard-drawn steel wire for pre-stressed concrete; Part 2 as drawn wire. | 8 |
| 3 | 6003 | Specification for indented wire for pre-stressed concrete. | 26 |
| 4 | 6006 | Specification for uncoated stress relieved strand for pre-stressed concrete. | 24 |
| 5 | 13620 | Specification for fusion bonded epoxy coated reinforcing bars. | 0 |
| 6 | 14268 | Specification for uncoated stress relieved low relaxation seven ply strand for pre-stressed concrete. | 4 |
| 7 | 277 | Galvanized steel sheets (plain and corrugated). | 37 |
| 8. | 2002 | Steel plates for pressure vessels for intermediate and high temperature service including boilers. | 10 |
| 9. | 2041 | Steel plates for pressure vessels used at moderate and low temperature. | 18 |
| 10. | 2830 | Carbon steel cast billet ingots, billets, blooms and slabs for re-rolling into steel for general structural purposes. | 425 |
| 11. | 1786 | High strength deformed steel bars and wires for concrete reinforcement (8 mm and above). | 518 |
| 12. | 648 | Cold rolled non-oriented electrical steel sheet and strip–fully processed type (CRNO). | 16 |
| 13. | 3024 | Grain oriented electrical steel sheet and strip (CRGO). | 16 |
| 14. | 15391 | Cold rolled non-oriented electrical steel sheet and strip–semi-processed type (CRNO). | 6 |
| 15. | 2062 | Hot rolled medium and high tensile structural steel (excluding bars and rods of diameter or thickness less than 6 mm and structurals below 50 mm x 50 mm x 6 mm). | 222 |
This information was given by Minister of State in the Ministry of Steel Sh. Vishnu Deo Sai in reply to a question Lok Sabha today.