The Steel Import Monitoring System (SIMS) 2.0 portal features API integration with multiple government portals, enhancing quality control and streamlining processes for improved efficiency and effectiveness. It will give a boost to the domestic steel industry and help in monitoring steel imports.

Aug 5, 2024

The Union Ministry of Steel and Heavy Industries has launched the upgraded Steel Import Monitoring System portal, to bolster the domestic steel industry, monitor steel imports, and achieve self-sufficiency in steel production, aligning with the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat.

As per an official notification, SIMS 2.0 features API integration with multiple government portals, enhancing quality control and streamlining processes for improved efficiency and effectiveness. 

The portal boasts a robust data entry system, ensuring consistent and authentic data, which promotes transparency and accountability. Integration of various databases enable stakeholders to locate areas of risk and permit better risk management. 

Availability of such detailed data not only provides input for policy making but also signals areas for production and growth to the domestic steel industry, says the release, adding that the detailed data will also enable the Customs department to conduct better analysis and risk management of steel imports.

The government has also released the second volume of the book ‘Safety Guidelines for Iron of Steel Sector,’ containing the guidelines for 16 different processes being used by the iron and steel sector. It extends the work of the Steel Ministry of publishing 25 safety guidelines in 2020 covering specific risks. 

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As per the release, though these guidelines are currently voluntary in nature, the industry has welcomed such regulations, as these have been generated through a consultation process. Besides addressing safety, such rules and regulations have a positive bearing on productivity, it adds.