HAL factory (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, a defence enterprise of the Government of India) is only 15 km from Koraput town. This HAL factory makes military aircraft engines forMiG and expanding for Sukhoi assembly line. The HAL factory and township is surrounded by hills and forest. It employs 6000 engineers and technicians, all are staying in the township next to the factory. The National Aluminium Company Ltd. (NALCO), Damanjodi also has its significance to boost up the economy of Koraput district. Around 2500 engineers & technicians are engaged in the process of extraction of Alumina from Bauxite. Other than the employees there are thousands of workers engaged by hundreds of contractors. Nearby Semliguda has developed as a commercial centre of the district and has become a good market catering to the people of Semliguda as well as of nearby sunabeda and damanjodi. Semliguda is mostly inhabited by trading community
