ANGUL: The State Government may rope in Nalco as a partner in the expansion of the fifth and the sixth units of Stateowned Ib Thermal Power Plant.

Coal supply to 1080 Mw captive power plant of the public sector National Aluminium Company (Nalco) located at Angul may be snapped soon as the Bharatpur coal mine in the Talcher coalfields which supplies coal to this plant is on the verge of closure due to non-availability of land.

Planned large-scale mechanised mining of minerals contributes substantially to the state and national exchequers. This is well-evident in the case of Orissa.

Satyasundar Barik

Nalco roped in to do initital experimentation

BHUBANESWAR: With Orissa projected to become one of the largest carbon emitting States in India, the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) is readying to adopt innovative technology that uses algae to capture carbon dioxide.

In the first such rejection by any ministry, Union Mines Minister B K Handique has shot down a proposal by the Finance Ministry that sought 10 per cent or more disinvestment in state-owned aluminium giant Nalco. The government holds 87.15 per cent in the navratna company that earned profits of Rs 1,272 crore on a turnover of Rs 5,531 crore in 2008-09.

Akshaya Kumar Saho

Orissa has more than 1,530 million tonnes of bauxite reserve, according a conservative esti- mate. Major alumi- na and aluminium producers, encour- aged by the 2010 upward swing in the world markets, have decided to increase their vol- ume of production.

BHUBANESWAR: National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), country's leading producer and exporter aluminium, here on Monday reported commissioning of The High Concentration Slurry Disposal (HCSD) system in its 1080 MW captive power plant.

Efforts on to check recurrence of naxal attack on bauxite mines

BERHAMPUR: Efforts are on by the NALCO to impede recurrence of the major naxals attack on its bauxite mines in Koraput district of Orissa on April 12 night in 2009.

B K Rout / Angul March 22, 2010, 1:03 IST

Union Minister for Mines B K Handique has ruled out any possibility of disinvestment in National Aluminum Company (Nalco), putting to rest all speculation on the possibility of a sale in government stake of up to 10 per cent in the navratna company.

Bhubaneswar, March 2: The Orissa government has cleared the proposal to lease a new bauxite mine in the southern district of Koraput to National Aluminimum Company Limited (Nalco), a central Navaratna public sector undertaking.
The state government gave the nod to Nalco for the Pattangi mines after a decade. The new mine is estimated to have bauxite reserve of over 70 million tonnes.