The government needs to strictly enforce cement usage in rural and urban roads

摘要

Overall cement demand will go up which will increase the present capacity utilisation levels from 50-60 per cent to around 80 per cent, says Faisal Alam, President-Sales & Marketing, Kalyanpur Cement. Excerpts from the interview... Which sectors will drive cement demand in 2015? According to the recent Government of India guidelines, most of the highways and roads will be built using concrete. This should have happened much earlier. If this happens, infrastructure demand will take the lead as is the case in China. The gap between China and India as first and second largest producer of cement in the world is primarily on account of cement being used in roads and bridges in China. The overall specs of the roads is for 100 years or more horizon. Rest of the sectors will grow at 7 to 8 per cent.