Mr A Sai Prathap minister of state for steel informed the Lok Sabha that government engaged Indian Institute of Metal of Kolkata in March 2007 for a comprehensive study on technical manpower requirement at different levels in the steel industry.

The report has been submitted by IIM, Kolkata to Ministry of Steel in March 2008 which inter alia covers discipline-wise requirement of technical manpower needed by the iron and steel industry by the year 2020, including shortages thereof.