Public sector steel units are expanding their dealer and distributor networks to reach district centers and remote areas of the country.

Presently SAIL has a total marketing network of 2700 dealers in 626 districts, 66 warehouses, 37 branch sales offices and 27 customer contact offices in the country.

RINL has over 150 dealers.

Private sector steel companies have also been asked to expand their distribution network to cover almost all the major districts of the country.

Ministry of Steel has evolved a scheme for routing the allocation of iron and steel materials from main producers like SAIL, RINL and TATA Steel to SSI units and other Government Departments through the Small Scale Industries Corporations and the National Small Scale Corporation and provides handling charges of approximately INR 500 to INR 550 per tonne to the Corporations so that the Corporations supply the steel materials at the doorsteps of the SSI units.