Centre holds 87.15 per cent shares of NALCO. The remaining shares are held by 55,286 shareholders including banks, financial institutions and individual shareholders.
Out of Rs 224.60 crore payable to the Centre, the aluminium major had already paid Rs 202.14 crore as interim dividend, company sources said.
The cheque for final dividend amounting to Rs 22.46 crore was handed over to Dinsha J Patel, Union Minister of Mines by NALCO CMD Ansuman Das in New Delhi today, they said.
Since inception, NALCO has paid a total of Rs 4197.02 crore as dividend of which Rs 3659.62 crore has been given to the central government, sources said.