Steel rate today: TMT price per kg (20 Oct 2026)

TMT steel price by city

Reported 12 mm TMT rates run from ₹45.2/kg in Durgapur to ₹53.5/kg in Bhavnagar, excluding GST.

The source does not name brand, grade or primary/secondary class. The per-kg column is the per-tonne rate ÷ 1,000. Freight and loading are not stated, so treat them as extra.

TMT steel price trend

Primary vs secondary TMT: dated category references

In Delhi, the source reported primary steel at ₹64.7/kg on 17 Oct 2026 (Fe 550D, 12–32 mm) and secondary steel at ₹50.8/kg on 19 Oct 2026 (Rerolling Fe 500, 12–25 mm). Grades, sizes and dates differ, so the gap is not a brand premium.

The source calls the second category “rerolling”; we list it as secondary. It names no brands. For a brand comparison, get quotes for the same grade, size and date.

Buy the grade your structural drawings specify. The TMT bar grades and IS 1786 guide explains the grades and their markings. A price category says nothing about compliance.

Convert per kg to per tonne, then price the quantity

Check nominal kg per metre and per 12 m bar in the unit weight of steel chart.

Multiply ₹/kg by 1,000 to get ₹/tonne, then multiply billed kg by ₹/kg for the material value.

Using the Delhi observation of 19 Oct 2026: ₹51,000/tonne ÷ 1,000 = ₹51/kg. An illustrative 2.5-tonne order is 2,500 kg × ₹51 = ₹1,27,500 before GST. At 18%, material GST is ₹22,950 and the subtotal is ₹1,50,450. Loading, freight and processing remain to be quoted.

To get the kg, use the steel calculator and TMT bar weight table or a bar bending schedule. Keep each diameter separate in the order, because dealers may charge size extras. For steel quantities measured from your full drawing set, get a BOQ from drawings.

GST, loading, transport and cutting/bending

GST on TMT and other iron or non-alloy steel bars and rods (HSN 7213–7215) is 18%, under Schedule II of Notification 9/2025 — Integrated Tax (Rate), dated 17 Sept 2025, effective 22 Sept 2025. The price tables show whether each source already includes it; do not add it twice.

• Loading and unloading: not stated by the city source. Agree who provides labour or lifting and where the dealer’s responsibility ends.
• Transport: ask for the charge to your site PIN code, per vehicle load, and any waiting charge.
• Cutting and bending: confirm whether you are buying straight bars or processed steel, and whether the charge is per kg, tonne or lot. Record whose account receives reusable offcuts and scrap.
• Other goods: binding wire, couplers and chairs are not included in a bare TMT price unless the quote explicitly includes them.

How to check a dealer quote

Get the quote in writing, with material, GST, freight and processing as separate lines.

1. Write the manufacturer, grade, diameter-wise quantity, bar length and delivery location on the request.
2. Ask for the date, validity, payment terms and stock status in writing.
3. Convert every quote to the same unit before comparing. Do not rank quotes whose inclusions you do not know.
4. Match mill/test documentation and bar identification to the approved specification. Confirm the agreed weighing and shortage-resolution procedure.
5. At receipt, reconcile the delivery challan, weighbridge slip, purchase order and invoice. Record rejected bars and returns separately.

A lower rate helps only if steel reconciles

A purchase rate prices incoming steel; it does not prove the quantity installed. Track opening stock + receipts − returns/transfers − closing stock as net site consumption. Compare that with BBS-based installed quantities, measured scrap and reusable offcuts; investigate the balance rather than calling every difference wastage.

Illustrative check: 1,000 kg opening + 5,000 kg received − 200 kg transferred − 800 kg closing = 5,000 kg consumed. If 4,800 kg is supported by the BBS and 150 kg by measured scrap, 50 kg remains unexplained. At an illustrative ₹50/kg, that difference is ₹2,500 before tax.

Use the material reconciliation statement guide. For measurement records, BBS and RA-bill support, see the construction billing desk.

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Methodology and source dates

We check free public sources by hand. Each price keeps the date its source gives for that rate, not the date we found it. “Listed” is a seller’s advertised price; “reported” is a market publisher’s reference rate. Unit conversions keep the source’s GST basis, and a row shows a range only when its source publishes one. We have not verified any sale or dealer quote. Prices dated more than 7 days before the check are marked as older references and left out of the summary range. The summary range is the lowest and highest of the recent prices shown, not an India-wide average. The tables change only when we re-check the sources by hand. The trend chart adds dated readings from a weekly scripted check of the same sources, reviewed before it is published.

• Ayron Mart — 19 Oct 2026; Mandi Gobindgarh, Raipur, Raigarh, Muzaffarnagar, Bhavnagar, Durgapur, Kolkata, Indore, Jalna, Mumbai, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Delhi, Rourkela, Chennai; ₹ per metric tonne; reported.
• easeInfra — 17 Oct 2026; Delhi; ₹ per metric tonne; reported.
• easeInfra — 19 Oct 2026; Delhi; ₹ per metric tonne; reported.

What we could not verify

• No verified brand-specific primary-versus-secondary price matrix for the same city, grade, size and date.
• No current usable public PSU/SAIL or PWD retail price circular was established in this review. Schedule rates are not substituted for market quotes.
• Ayron Mart does not identify primary/secondary class; those city prices remain unclassified.

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