The cement manufacturing and handling capacity of Birla Corporation is planned to be increased through spending Rs 1,500-1,600 crore in capital expenditure. The company is also in plans to hike captive power generation capacity for supporting the production to be expanded. Birla Corporation is the flagship company of the MP Birla Group of Companies.The company is presently in the process of executing a 1.2 million tonne per annum brownfield expansion project at Chittorgarh district in Rajasthan. The project is planned to be commissioned by the end of this financial year. A 7 lakh tonne expansion of the company’s cement plant at Durgapur has also been undertaken. Petcoke is planned to be sourced from the Jamnagar refinery of Reliance and the Panipat refinery of Indian Oil.