Steel Ministry to Set Up Steel Industry Safety Council (SISC)

The correct answer is the Secretary, Ministry of Steel. The Steel Industry Safety Council is being created as an apex body for the whole steel industry, with the mandate of strengthening safety standards, preventing accidents and building a safety culture, and the Secretary of the ministry will head it. The technical work will fall to a separate Steel Industry Safety Directorate, which will conduct safety audits, investigate serious incidents and issue safety standards suited to Indian conditions, covering iron and steel producers as well as the mines of central public sector enterprises. Option A names the political head of the ministry, who has not been given this charge. Option B names the head of a single producer, which cannot preside over a body that oversees the entire industry. Option D names the mining company that commissioned the Nagarnar pellet plant, a different item in the same review.

The correct answer is Chhattisgarh. The pellet plant of 2 MTPA capacity has been commissioned at Nagarnar in Chhattisgarh, and with it NMDC has completed an integrated project costing Rs 5,427 crore. The same project contains an iron ore processing plant at Bacheli and a slurry pipeline 135 km long with a throughput of 15 MTPA, while the pellet plant itself runs on Straight Grate Induration technology. Its purpose is to add value to the fines and slimes of Bailadila iron ore and to reduce the carriage of ore by road. Options A and B name two other states rich in minerals and steel capacity, but neither hosts this plant. Option D, West Bengal, is the state where SAIL and Bharat Coking Coal Limited agreed to jointly develop two coal blocks, so it belongs to a separate item in the same review.

The correct answer is 101. Under the Green Steel Initiative of the Ministry of Steel, Green Steel Certificates have been issued to 101 distinct producers across the lists brought out up to September 2026. The certification spans TMT bars, hot rolled and cold rolled coils, plates, wire rods, pipes and other steel products, and a large majority of the certified products have earned a five star rating, which the ministry treats as a sign that lower emission steelmaking is spreading through the industry. The other three options are near figures of the kind a paper setter uses to check whether the exact number has been learnt. Aspirants should link this with the second green item in the same review, the Centre of Excellence for green hydrogen research that Jadavpur University is setting up with SAIL, DVC and HURL at a cost of Rs 8.18 crore.

The correct answer is Bharat Coking Coal Limited. The agreement covers the joint development and operation of two blocks in West Bengal, the Indikatta Ramnagore coal block held by SAIL and the East of Damagoria or Kalyaneshwari block held by BCCL. Both are central public sector enterprises, and the tie up is meant to deepen cooperation between them and widen domestic sources of coking coal, which Indian steel plants otherwise import in large quantity. Option A names the parent coal producer, not the partner named in this memorandum. Option C names the iron ore miner that commissioned the pellet plant at Nagarnar in the same review, so it is a distractor drawn from a neighbouring item. Option D, Damodar Valley Corporation, does appear in the review, but in the green hydrogen Centre of Excellence with Jadavpur University, SAIL and HURL, not in this coal block agreement.