5. The Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd. (BALCO), Korba

This is a public sector company which set up its plant at Korba (Bilaspur District, Chhattisgarh) in 1965. It obtains bauxite from the Amarkantak (Shahdol District of Madhya Pradesh) and electricity from the Korba Thermal Power Plant. The plant has an installed capacity of 2.00 lakh tonnes of ingots per year. The government has recently disinvested its share to a private company namely, Sterlite Industries, India (March 2001).