Hey !
The metallurgical profession is extremely diverse, and it offers a wide variety of career opportunities for young people who have an interest in technology, science and engineering.
Metallurgical engineers are employed in every industry and enterprise that produces, buys, sells, refines or manufactures metals or metallic products. One of the best career option is to go for post graduation course (this is suggested coz you may not be paid to the extent you expect just after your undergraduation in this stream and also helpful for your career growth later on). Mtech or PhD is the best choice. And the Institute in which you pursue this also matters. IIT's, IISc etc stand at the top.
Check the below link for information regarding the course.
https://engineering.careers360.com/articles/metallurgical-and-materials-engineering-
Hope this helps
All the best !

salary is near about in starting in a normal psu is 8lakh per annum

• IOCL, RINL, SAIL, NALCO, NMDC, RRB-Senior Engineer for Chemical-metallurgy post, DRDO, ISRO, BIS, JWM(Metallurgy)At Ordnance Factory at Ministry of Defence etc.

You can go further studies like

• Master (M.Tech) after finishing off your undergraduate(B.tech/B.E) and then Ph.D. and then you can be settled as the professors or scientist at any good organization like DRDO, BIS, ISRO etc.