Captain TMT Bar Price List Today
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Captain TMT bars currently retail around ₹54–₹58 per kg, positioning the brand a few rupees below premium labels like Tata Tiscon while staying BIS-certified under IS 1786. Captain Steel is based in Durgapur, West Bengal, and is strongest across East India — Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and the North-East — where its freight advantage from the Durgapur industrial belt shows up directly in the retail rate. This page carries the current indicative chart, the per-rod and per-house conversions, and the checks that matter when buying a value-band brand.
(Rates are indicative retail including GST and move with the steel market — see the date stamp above, and treat the chart as a negotiation baseline, not a same-day quote.)
Captain TMT rate chart (indicative retail)
| Bar size | Price per kg | Weight per 12 m rod | Price per rod (approx.) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 mm | ₹56–58 | 4.74 kg | ₹265–275 |
| 10 mm | ₹55–57 | 7.40 kg | ₹405–420 |
| 12 mm | ₹54–56 | 10.66 kg | ₹575–600 |
| 16 mm | ₹54–56 | 18.96 kg | ₹1,025–1,060 |
| 20 mm | ₹54–56 | 29.63 kg | ₹1,600–1,660 |
| 25 mm | ₹54–56 | 46.30 kg | ₹2,500–2,590 |
Same ranges as the table. As with every TMT brand, 8 mm carries a ₹1–2/kg premium over thicker bars because thin sizes take more rolling passes per tonne.
Rod weights follow the D²/162 rule (a 12 mm rod = 12² ÷ 162 × 12 m = 10.66 kg) — the full weight logic is on the unit weight of steel bars page, and it's the arithmetic behind every per-rod price above.
The brand in brief
Captain Steel India Ltd operates out of the Durgapur belt — one of eastern India's oldest steel clusters, with raw material and rail logistics that let regional producers price sharply in their home market. The company rolls TMT in the standard IS 1786 grades (Fe 500 and the higher-ductility "D" variants; confirm the exact grade offered in your market on the bundle tag and test certificate). Distribution is dense in Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha, thinner as you move west and south — which is why quotes outside East India often lose the brand's price advantage to freight.
For a buyer, the practical meaning of "value band" is simple: the steel meets the same Indian Standard as premium brands, the per-kg saving is real (₹3–5 against Tiscon), and the compensating discipline is on you — verification and weighing take the place of the premium brand's reputation cushion.
What decides your Captain TMT price
- Diameter: 8 mm runs ₹1–2/kg above 12–25 mm (thin-bar rolling economics).
- Grade: "D" grades (higher ductility) carry a small premium over plain Fe 500 where both are stocked; match the grade to your structural drawing, not to the cheaper quote.
- Distance from Durgapur: the brand's core advantage decays with freight; in Patna or Ranchi it's strong, in Pune it usually isn't.
- Quantity and terms: full-tonne orders and cash terms earn ₹1–3/kg off per-rod retail — same dealer arithmetic as any brand.
- Market cycle: monsoon months typically soften rates; October–March construction season firms them. Steel is a commodity chain — iron ore, coal and scrap move the base price under every brand simultaneously.
Per-house math at Captain prices
Thumb rule 3.5–4.5 kg of steel per sq ft of built-up area (thumb rules):
| House | Steel needed | At ₹55/kg blended |
|---|---|---|
| 800 sq ft single storey | ~3.0 t | ₹1.65 lakh |
| 1,200 sq ft G+1 | ~4.8 t | ₹2.64 lakh |
| 1,800 sq ft G+1 | ~7.2 t | ₹3.96 lakh |
Against a premium brand at ₹60/kg blended, the 1,200 sq ft house saves ≈ ₹24,000 with Captain — a real number, and also the exact budget the verification routine below is protecting. (Houses consume mostly 8–12 mm bars, so blend your estimate ₹0.5–1/kg above the 16 mm headline rate.)
Buying a value-band brand safely: the routine
- Confirm BIS licence and grade. The bundle tag shows the IS 1786 mark, licence (CM/L) number and grade; the rib pattern on the bar itself carries the brand name. Tags without rib branding to match = walk away.
- Collect the mill test certificate for your lot — yield strength, UTS, elongation and measured mass per metre. Every legitimate producer issues these; dealers who "can't get it" are telling you something.
- Weigh against nominal. Nominal bundle weights from the chart (e.g. 12 mm × 5 rods ≈ 53 kg); IS 1786 allows ±5% on 12–16 mm and ±7% on ≤10 mm. Deliveries running consistently at the light edge deserve a supplier change — tolerance is a band, not a discount scheme.
- Bill with GST (18%) in the buyer's name, with the weighbridge slip attached. Loan reimbursements and dispute resolution both live on this paper.
- Storage: off the ground on sleepers, covered — light surface rust is normal and harmless; pitting from months of open storage is not.
The East India steel picture
Captain's home market has its own economics worth knowing as a buyer. The Durgapur–Asansol–Jamshedpur corridor concentrates integrated plants, re-rollers and induction furnaces within a short rail radius, so eastern buyers enjoy both the country's densest brand choice and its thinnest freight premiums — retail TMT in Kolkata or Patna routinely undercuts identical grades in western metros. The flip side of that density is a long tail of small re-rollers, which is where fake branding and off-tolerance bars circulate; the verification routine above is more valuable in this market than anywhere else in India. Seasonally, the east adds one wrinkle to the national pattern: an intense monsoon slows construction hard, so the June–September rate softening tends to be more visible here — a window self-builders with dry storage can use.
Captain vs the neighbours
Within East India's value band, Captain and Shyam Steel trade within about a rupee of each other, and both undercut the national premium brands by ₹3–5/kg. Choosing between them usually comes down to which authorised dealer is closer and today's quote — compare on the all-brands steel price list, and always compare the same grade (an Fe 500 quote will always look cheaper than an Fe 500D quote; that's grade, not generosity).
Against Tata Tiscon / JSW / SAIL: grade-for-grade the standard is identical on paper; the premium buys tighter batch consistency, near-nominal rolling weight and a national dealer network. A defensible split many East-Indian engineers suggest: premium brand if the budget carries it easily or the structure is ambitious; Captain-class BIS brands with full verification for standard G+1 homes — and either way, the weighbridge slip and test certificate are non-negotiable.
Buying a regional brand on its home ground
Captain TMT is a regional player with its strength in the East, and that shapes the value proposition in a way national-brand logic misses entirely.
Freight is the hidden term in every steel price. TMT is heavy, low-value-per-tonne cargo, and moving it is expensive. A national brand rolling in Karnataka and selling in West Bengal carries that freight in the delivered price whether the customer values it or not. A regional mill selling into its own catchment does not. This is most of why a competent regional brand can undercut a national one on its home ground without cutting anything real out of the steel — the saving is logistics, not metallurgy.
What you should still verify, because "regional" is not a quality claim either way:
- IS 1786 certification and the BIS mark, on the bar and on the paperwork.
- The test certificate for your heat number, stating yield, tensile, elongation and mass per metre. This is the document that makes any brand claim checkable.
- Rolled identification marks, repeating along the bar.
- Grade. Fe 500D and Fe 550D carry tighter elongation requirements than plain Fe 500 — the 'D' is ductility, and it is what you want in any structure expected to survive a seismic event. Much of eastern India sits in Zone III or higher; the D grade is not an upsell there.
Where a regional brand is the right answer: ordinary residential work within the mill's catchment, where freight savings are real, the dealer relationship is direct, and a problem with a delivery can be resolved by someone who is actually reachable. Local supply chains fail more gracefully than distant ones — a short delivery gets replaced next morning rather than next fortnight.
Where to think harder: projects far outside the home region (the freight advantage inverts), anything where a specifying engineer has named a brand for a documented reason, and any purchase where the dealer resists producing a test certificate. That last one is not about Captain or any other brand — a dealer of any label who will not show you the TC has removed the only mechanism you had for checking what you bought.
Grade before brand
The most common mistake on a page like this is to shop the brand and accept whatever grade the dealer has in stock. That is backwards. Fe 500D from a competent regional mill is a better input to an earthquake-resilient frame than Fe 500 from a famous one, because the D grade's minimum elongation is what lets a member deform instead of snapping.
Decide the grade from the drawing and the seismic zone first. Then choose among brands that actually supply it, on delivered price and on whether the dealer will hand you the test certificate without an argument. In that order, a regional brand on its home ground very often wins on merit — not as a compromise.
The three questions that settle any TMT purchase
Strip away the brand argument and every TMT buying decision — Captain or otherwise — comes down to three questions, in this order.
1. What grade does the drawing call for? Not what the dealer has, not what the neighbour used. Fe 500D and Fe 550D carry the elongation minimums that let a member bend rather than snap, which is the whole basis of ductile detailing under IS 13920. Most of eastern India sits in seismic Zone III or higher. Settle the grade from the structural drawing, then shop.
2. Will the dealer produce the test certificate for the heat number on my bars? This is the single most informative question you can ask, and it costs nothing. A mill TC states yield strength, tensile strength, elongation and mass per metre for the specific cast. A dealer who produces it promptly is a dealer who knows what he is selling. A dealer who offers a generic photocopy, or explains why it is not necessary, has answered a different and more useful question.
3. Am I being billed on actual weight or theoretical weight? IS 1786 permits a rolling tolerance on mass per metre. Billed on chart weight, you pay for steel that may not be there. Billed on weighbridge weight, you pay for what arrived. On a 6-tonne order this is worth thousands of rupees, and it is negotiable — but only if you raise it before the order, not after the delivery.
Get those three right and the brand question mostly answers itself: buy the cheapest delivered bar, of the correct grade, from a dealer who will hand you the certificate. On its home ground in the East, that is frequently Captain — not because the name carries a promise, but because the freight maths and the paperwork both work out.
A note on indicative rates
July 2026, indicative. In the eastern market the quote spread is unusually wide, because several competent regional mills compete against a great deal of unbranded material — so a rate on its own tells you very little, and much of the gap between any two quotes turns out to be a difference of grade rather than a difference of quality. Settle the grade from your drawing first; only then is a price comparison meaningful.
The short version
Decide the grade from your drawing and your seismic zone — Fe 500D for any frame, and most of the East is Zone III or higher. Then buy the cheapest delivered bar of that grade from a dealer who hands you the test certificate for your heat number without an argument. On its home ground the freight maths usually makes that a regional brand, and that is a decision on merit rather than a compromise.
Then stop thinking about steel and start thinking about cover, compaction and curing. Those three decide how long the frame lasts, they cost almost nothing, and they are where nearly every Indian site quietly loses the durability it paid for.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Captain TMT price per kg today? Around ₹54–₹58 per kg retail depending on diameter, city and quantity — sharpest in East India, where the brand's freight advantage lives.
Is Captain TMT good for house construction? Yes — Captain TMT is BIS-certified under IS 1786 and widely used in residential RCC across East India. Buy from authorised dealers, match the grade to your drawing, and take the test certificate.
What is the price of one 12 mm Captain TMT rod? A 12 mm × 12 m rod weighs 10.66 kg, so one rod costs roughly ₹575–600 at current rates.
Where is Captain TMT manufactured? At Captain Steel's plant in the Durgapur industrial belt, West Bengal — the reason East India rates are the most competitive.
How many Captain rods make a tonne? From the D²/162 rule: ~211 rods of 8 mm, ~135 of 10 mm, ~94 of 12 mm, ~53 of 16 mm.
Captain vs Tata Tiscon — how big is the real saving? Typically ₹3–5/kg, i.e. ₹15,000–25,000 on a typical house's 4–5 tonnes. The premium brand buys consistency and network; the value brand plus disciplined verification buys the same standard for less.
Does Captain TMT come in Fe 550D? Higher-strength and ductile grades are part of the IS 1786 line-up producers in this band offer; availability varies by market — confirm the grade on the tag and certificate for your specific lot.
Why is 8 mm Captain costlier per kg than 16 mm? Thin bars need more rolling passes and handling per tonne — an industry-wide pattern, not a brand quirk.
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