INDIAN STATE : CHHATTISGARH

Existing Industries

• Aluminium

  Chhattisgarh can soon boast of having the largest aluminium plants in the country at Korba. The plant is quadrupling its capacity to 400,000 tonnes per annum. The state has proposed to develop an aluminium park for downstream products. It will house more than 100 units to manufacture various aluminium products for civil aviation, automobile and construction sectors.

• Cement

  Chhattisgarh is famous for its cement industry. There are eight large units accounting for around 20 percent of India's cement production.

• Coal

  Chhattisgarh is an important player in coal sector. Presently, the sector is dominated by public sector undertakings, but the private sector is also coming up in this sector in terms of captive mines for industrial units.

• Iron and Steel

  The state is the iron and steel hub of the country. The Bhilai steel plant of Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL) produces over four million tones of iron and steel per annum. Substantial capacities have been set up in the private sector too. Twenty eight per cent of India's sponge iron production comes from Chhattisgarh.

• Power
  
  Chhattisgarh has a robust power sector since its inception. The power situation of the state is very comfortable. NTPC has an installed thermal capacity of 2100 MW while CSEB's units have a thermal capacity of 1280 MW and hydel capacity of 130.85 MW. Apart from NTPC and CSEB, there are a number of private generation units of large and small capacity operating in the state. The private players have been attracted to this sector mainly on behalf of the liberal policy pursued by the Government with regard to captive generation.

As per a study made by the Power Finance Corporation Ltd., Chhattisgarh has potential of 61000 MW of additional thermal power in terms of availability of coal and more than 2500 MW hydel capacity.