Chandni Sharma*, SN Jha and Pranav Tiwari
The infrastructure plays an important role in the economic growth of a country. Across different industries the construction industry is one among all which fosters the development of infrastructure. Furthermore, the sprawl of the construction sector facilitates the production of cement. India with 298 million tons in year 2022 became the second largest producer of cement in the world. In India there are 210 large cement plants, from which 32% of cement production is from South India, 20% from North India,15% from west India, 13% from Central India and remaining 20% of the cement production occurs from East India. The production of cement in India during 2011-12 was 223.50 million tons, which has increased to 374.55 million tons in 2022-23. Likewise, the consumption of cement has been significantly increased from 222.37 million tons in 2011-2012 to 375.19 million tons in 2022-23 respectively. India imported the cement with a quantity of 7.52 Lakh tons in 2012 which reached up to 7.27 Lakh tons in 2023. The export of cement in year 2012 was 21.36 Lakh tons and it reached upto 11.66 Lakh tons in year 2022. India imports cement from UAE (330 thousand tons in 2022), Bangladesh (207.1 thousand tons in 2022), Bhutan (195.98 thousand tons in 2022), Oman (73 thousand tons in 2022) and China (3.5 thousand tons in 2022). The countries to which India exports cement are Sri Lanka (350.6 crore tons in 2022), Nepal (203.4 crore tons in 2022), Maldives (178.7 crore tons in 2022), UAE (67.7 crore tons in 2022) and Mauritius (65.4 crore tons in 2022). The cement industry is one of the major industry in India which is contributing the national economy directly and indirectly. In order to sustain this industry, the Govt. of India is approving different investment schemes.
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