Union Steel Minister Birender Singh has asked the steel industry to compete and fight with other industries supplying substitution materials for steel. Inaugurating the second regional conference on 'Make in India-Make in Steel 'and' Doubling per capita Steel Consumption' in Ludhiana Punjab on Tuesday, he outlined the unique qualities of steel including life cycle cost, recyclability, reusability, strength, and durability during. He said that FCI has plans to construct 100 lakh ton steel silos by 2020 and northern states can contribute largely to it. Singh praised the secondary steel industry in Northern states which use scrap intensive steel making thus reducing coking coal dependence and is also cost effective. He added that "Steel industry's landscape has undergone wide changes and more plants using melt and manufacture technologies should come up." The conference was organized by the steel ministry and was attended by Mos, senior officials, and SAIL representatives also.