Ram Chandra Prasad Singh will now take charge of the Ministry of Steel. He is a Member of Parliament from Bihar since 2010. Ram Chandra succeeds Dharmendra Pradhan as India’s new Steel Minister.
Before joining politics, he was a UP cadre IAS officer, who became a close aide of Nitish Kumar. A graduate in History he has a major task at hand to streamline and promote sustainability in the steel industry.
Amongst this he has a major challenge to privatise Vizag Steel Plant, whose ambitious privatisation is being opposed by many fractions including the state government and the trade unions calling it the pride of Telugu People and Andhra Pradesh.
