Shyam Steel Price List Today
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Shyam Steel TMT bars retail around ₹54–₹58 per kg, competing in the value band across East India. Shyam is a Kolkata-headquartered integrated producer (plants in West Bengal) whose flexiSTRONG Fe 500D/550D range is a staple on Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand sites.
Shyam Steel 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 |
Indicative rates including GST for East India; other regions add freight. Steel moves weekly — see the last-updated date above.
East India retail. Shyam and Captain trade within about a rupee of each other; both undercut national premium brands by ₹3–5/kg.
Steel at 4 kg per sq ft of built-up area (thumb rule), blended ₹55.5/kg — houses lean on 8–12 mm bars, which price above the 16 mm headline. East-India value pricing — the saving against a premium brand funds the verification routine below several times over.
Shyam grades and verification
Shyam rolls Fe 500D and Fe 550D under IS 1786 with in-house billet production, which keeps batch chemistry consistent. Bundles carry holographic tags — verify at the dealer and collect the mill test certificate showing yield strength, UTS and elongation for your batch.
Shyam vs Captain vs premium brands
Within East India's value band, Shyam and Captain trade within ₹1/kg of each other; both undercut Tata Tiscon by ₹3–5/kg. If your engineer specifies Fe 500D, any of them meets the grade — decide on dealer proximity, current quote and certificate availability. Full comparison: all-brands steel price list.
Fe 500D or Fe 550D? The decision, done properly
Shyam sells across the standard grade family, and the question buyers actually face at the counter is not which brand — it is which grade. This is the decision that changes the structure, and it is almost always made badly, by taking whatever is in stock.
What the numbers mean. Fe 500 and Fe 550 are minimum yield strengths in N/mm². The D suffix denotes a variant with higher minimum elongation and tighter limits on sulphur and phosphorus — in plain terms, a bar that stretches further before it breaks and is less brittle. Under IS 1786, the D grades are a distinct specification, not a marketing tier.
Why higher strength is not automatically better. This is the counter-intuitive part. Fe 550 lets a designer use less steel for the same load, which sounds like a saving. But higher-strength steel is generally less ductile — it reaches its limit and fails with less warning. For a structure that must survive an earthquake by deforming and absorbing energy rather than snapping, ductility is the property that saves lives, and raw strength is not a substitute for it.
That is why IS 13920 — the ductile detailing code — restricts what you may use in earthquake-resisting frames. It is also why Fe 500D is the sensible default for Indian housing rather than Fe 550: it carries the ductility, and the extra strength of Fe 550 buys you a marginal steel saving that a house does not need.
The decision rule:
- Fe 500D — the right answer for almost every house. Ductile, code-friendly, widely available, marginally cheaper than 550D.
- Fe 550D — where a designer has specified it for a reason: long spans, heavy loads, congested reinforcement where fitting the bars in is the actual constraint.
- Fe 500 (no D) — non-structural work, boundary walls, compound walls. Not for a frame in a seismic zone.
- Fe 550 (no D) — rarely the right answer for a house. If a dealer is pushing it as an upgrade over Fe 500D, he is selling strength you do not need in place of ductility you do.
The thing to internalise: the letter matters more than the number. Given a choice between Fe 550 and Fe 500D for a house frame, take the Fe 500D.
Buying in the eastern market
Shyam operates in a market — West Bengal and the East — with several competent regional mills and a wide spread of unbranded material. Two consequences follow.
First, the price spread is wide, and a rate alone tells you very little. Normalise every quote to delivered, per kg, same grade before comparing. A ₹4/kg spread between two quotes may be entirely explained by one being Fe 500 and the other Fe 500D — a difference in product, not a bargain.
Second, the paperwork is the differentiator. Ask for the mill test certificate for the heat number on your delivery: yield, tensile, elongation, mass per metre. A dealer who produces it without friction is selling a checkable product. In a market with this much unbranded material moving, that willingness is the most informative signal available to you, and it costs nothing to test.
And weigh a metre. 12 mm should be 0.888 kg per D²/162; IS 1786 permits ±5% at that diameter. On a six-tonne house order, the difference between the top and bottom of tolerance is real money — and it is invisible unless someone puts a bar on a scale.
The bar bending schedule — the document that decides your steel bill
Almost every steel argument on a site traces back to the absence of one document. The bar bending schedule (BBS) is the structural drawing converted into a cutting list: every bar, its diameter, its shape, its cut length, its count, and the total weight per element.
Why it beats every thumb rule. A rule says "4 kg per sq ft". A BBS says "42 nos of 16 mm at 4,250 mm, shape code 21". You cannot buy against the first one, and you cannot argue about the second one. It converts steel from a negotiation into a measurement.
What a BBS lets you do that you otherwise cannot:
- Order the right diameters. Six tonnes of "steel" is meaningless — you need 1,800 kg of 10 mm and 1,500 kg of 16 mm, and a dealer cannot substitute one for the other.
- Check the bar bender's claim. Bending is paid per tonne or per kg. The BBS is the independent figure.
- Nest the cuts. Stock is 12 m. A schedule needing 4,250 mm bars yields two per rod with 3.5 m left over — but if some other element needs 3,400 mm bars, that offcut is not waste. Only a schedule lets anyone see this.
- Detect an error before it is cast. A slab whose BBS shows 6 mm main steel is a slab with a problem, and the schedule surfaces it while it is still on paper.
Cut length is not member length. This is the arithmetic people get wrong. A bar bent into a stirrup or cranked over a support is longer than the straight distance it covers, and the bends themselves consume length. Cut length = the developed shape + hooks − bend deductions, per IS 2502. A stirrup for a 230 × 450 beam with 25 mm cover and 8 mm steel works out to about 1,216 mm, not the 1,160 mm its perimeter suggests.
Wastage: what is normal and what is not. Budget 3–5% on a house. Above that, look at three things:
- Nesting. Are cuts being planned across elements, or is each bar cut from a fresh rod?
- Schedule stability. Every drawing revision after cutting has begun turns finished bars into scrap.
- Offcut discipline. Short offcuts are perfectly good for stirrups, chairs and dowels. A site that treats every offcut as scrap is throwing away 2–3% of its steel bill.
Scrap has value. Offcuts sell back at a fraction of the rate. Whether that money reaches you or the contractor is a question worth settling in the contract, before the first bar is cut — on a six-tonne house it is not a trivial sum, and it is never mentioned unless someone raises it.
What actually moves the steel rate
Steel is the most volatile line in an Indian house budget, and understanding why helps you stop trying to time it.
Iron ore and coking coal. These are the raw inputs, priced globally. When ore rises, integrated producers' costs rise; when coking coal spikes, everyone's do. Neither has anything to do with your city, and both arrive in your quote anyway.
Scrap and sponge iron prices set the floor for the induction-furnace mills that supply much of India's value-band TMT. Scrap is traded internationally too — so a shipping disruption on the other side of the world moves the rate at your local dealer, with a lag.
Mill order books and construction season. Demand rises sharply post-monsoon as sites restart across the country. Rates typically firm from October, soften in the monsoon when pouring stops. This is the one genuinely predictable pattern, and it is small compared to input swings.
Import duty and policy. Changes to duty on steel or its inputs reprice the whole domestic market within weeks.
Freight and diesel. The delivered rate contains a transport component that has nothing to do with steel at all.
What this means for you: you cannot forecast it, and the people who sell you forecasts cannot either. What you can do is buy per stage against the bar bending schedule rather than speculating with six tonnes of inventory you have to keep dry. The rate you "save" by buying early is easily lost to a monsoon and a tarpaulin that pooled water.
Stirrups and ties — the small steel that does the hard work
Most attention goes to main bars because they are big and expensive. The bars that most often decide whether a member survives are the small ones wrapped around them.
What stirrups actually do. Three jobs, and only one is obvious:
- Resist shear. Diagonal cracking near supports is a shear failure, and it is brittle — it arrives without the warning that bending failure gives. Stirrups carry that diagonal tension.
- Confine the concrete. In a column, closely spaced ties hold the core together under load, letting it deform rather than burst. This is the property that matters in an earthquake.
- Hold the cage together so the main bars stay where the designer put them.
Why spacing tightens near the ends. Shear is highest at supports, so stirrup spacing closes up there and opens out at mid-span. In seismic detailing to IS 13920, the confinement zone at each end of a member gets much closer spacing, and this is not optional decoration — it is the detail that gives a frame its ductility. A site that spaces stirrups uniformly "to make it easier" has removed exactly the thing that was meant to save the building.
The 135° hook. Seismic detailing requires stirrup hooks bent to 135° and embedded into the core, not the 90° hooks that are quicker to make. Under load, a 90° hook opens and the stirrup lets go precisely when it is needed most. This is one of the most consequential details on an Indian site and one of the most frequently substituted, because 90° is faster and looks similar in a photograph.
On your order: stirrups are usually 8 mm and they are a meaningful share of the steel tonnage — often 10–15%. They are also where offcuts should be going. A site buying fresh 8 mm while throwing away 3 m offcuts of 12 mm is wasting money at both ends.
Where to spend your attention
If this page is read as a shopping guide it has failed. The steel decisions that matter, in order of how much they change the building:
- Grade — Fe 500D over Fe 500 for any frame in a seismic zone. Costs ₹1–2/kg. Changes how the structure behaves when it is asked to move. This is the only item on the list that is about safety rather than money.
- Cover — 40 mm to the outside of the stirrup, held with real cover blocks. Free. Roughly quadruples service life against 25 mm.
- Curing — the full period, continuously moist. Costs water and schedule. Decides whether the concrete around the steel is dense or porous.
- The pour — nobody standing on the top mat, chairs in place, proper compaction.
- Billing basis and wastage — actual weight, nested cuts, offcuts used. Worth more than the brand premium and nobody negotiates it.
- Brand — last. Matters on a G+2, a long span or a coastal site. Largely irrelevant on a single-storey house on good soil with a valid test certificate in hand.
Most owners spend all their attention on item 6 and none on items 2 to 5. That is precisely backwards, and it is the most expensive habit in Indian house building.
Buying in a market with many mills
Eastern India has more competing rolling mills per square kilometre than almost anywhere else in the country, which is good for price and hard for comparison. Two consequences worth planning around: the spread between the cheapest and dearest quote for nominally the same product will be wide, and much of that spread is explained by grade and billing basis rather than by quality. Normalise before you conclude.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Shyam Steel price per kg today? Around ₹54–₹58 per kg retail in East India, depending on diameter and quantity.
Is Shyam Steel good for house construction? Yes — Shyam is an integrated producer with BIS-certified Fe 500D/550D TMT, widely used in residential RCC across East India.
What does one 12 mm Shyam rod cost? A 12 mm × 12 m rod weighs 10.66 kg — about ₹575–600 at current rates.
Where is Shyam Steel made? At Shyam Steel's integrated plants in West Bengal (Durgapur belt), which is why East India rates are the sharpest.
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