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Centre taking steps to increase production of green steel to cut carbon footprint: Minister

New Delhi, March 21: As part of its efforts to increase green steel manufacturing in the country, the Ministry of Steel has awarded two pilot projects to produce Direct Reduced Iron (DRI) using 100 per cent hydrogen in vertical shafts and one pilot project to use hydrogen in an existing blast furnace to reduce coal consumption and cut the carbon footprint, the Parliament was informed on Friday.