After MoRTH's New Decision, As Long As Steel Passes Standard Tests, It Will Be Used For Highway Construction; Metal Need Not Come From Primary Producer Only by Arun Kumar Das - Feb 15, 2021 05:56 AM Nitin Gadkari (Wikimedia Commons) Snapshot With this step, the supplier base for steel used in the construction of national highways would increase, leading to more competition and better price discovery by the markets. Ensuring cost reduction in building of highways using steel, the Road Transport and Highways Ministry has issued orders that all steel â whether produced from ore, billets, pellets or melting of scrap - would be allowed to be used for National Highway construction, as long as it meets the standards required for specific grades of steel.