The BJP led NDA has completed two years in Government. While hearteningly India is now the fastest growing major economy in the world, one of the sectors that will keep this impressive growth going is steel. To make this sector highly robust and productive Minister for Steel and Mines Mr Narendra Singh Tomar has drawn up a long term strategy. What he plans is to position India as the world’s second largest producer of crude steel in the next 10 years, by overtaking Japan. The nation’s flagship steel company, the SAIL, is being given more powers of expansion. An industry driven Steel Research and Technology Mission is being put in place. With more budgetary support for infra-expenditure projects like railways, highways, airports and housing, Make in India programmes, rapid urbanization, and increased automobile manufacturing, steel production and consumption will receive a boost. On all this and more, Minister Tomar spoke with Editor and Publisher Sayantan Chakravarty at his office