India has asked state-controlled National Aluminium Co Ltd (Nalco) to re-think its overseas expansion plans including a proposal to set up a $2 billion smelter unit in Iran, a top official has said.
"Value addition should happen in India and we should be self-sufficient in aluminium instead of importing by setting up plants overseas," Mines Secretary Balvinder Kumar told Reuters. "We have asked them to expand their domestic capacity."
The Secretary said the final decision would be taken by Nalco’s board on the Iran project.
Earlier in May, the state-owned company had entered into an initial agreement with Iran’s mining development body to supply alumina from its refinery in India to set up an aluminium smelter in Iran.
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