Bajaj Hindusthan Ltd. (BHL), a part of the 'Bajaj Group', is India's Number One sugar and ethanol manufacturing company, headquartered at Mumbai (Maharashtra), India.

The Company has ten sugar plants, which are all located in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) :
Golagokarannath, Palia Kalan and Khambarkhera (district Lakhimpur Kheri), Barkhera (district Pilibhit), Kinauni (district Meerut), Gangnauli (district Saharanpur), Thanabhavan and Budhana (district Muzaffarnagar) and Bilai (district Bijnore) and a Unit that commenced operations this sugar season of 2007-08 at Maqsoodapur (district Shahjahanpur).These ten plants have an aggregate sugarcane crushing capacity of 96,000 tcd (tonnes crushed per day).

BHL’s subsidiary, Bajaj Hindusthan Sugar and Industries Limited (BHSIL), has a 6,000 tcd sugar plant at Pratappur (district Deoria) in UP. BHSIL has, this sugar season, commenced sugarcane crushing operations at two more sugar plants: a 7,000 tcd plant in Rudauli (district Basti), a 15,000 tcd plant in Kundakhi (district Gonda). a third greenfield plant with a crushing capacity of12,000 tcd in Utraula (district Balrampur) is scheduled to start operations later this season. Thus, in the 2007-08 sugar season, BHSIL will have a crushing capacity of 40,000 tcd. The Bajaj Hindusthan Group as a whole will have an aggregate sugarcane crushing capacity of 136,000 tcd. The Group has a distillery capacity to produce 800,000 liters of Alcohol per day.

BHL is India’s largest ethanol producer. It is the pioneer of India’s fuel ethanol programme. BHL is currently producing 34.24 million litres of ethanol in a year. In anticipation of emerging market demand, the Company has increased its ethanol manufacturing capacity to nearly 218 million litres per year.

BHL generates 397 MW of power from the bagasse produced in its sugar mills. After meeting its own energy needs, BHL has a surplus of over 90 MW. The Company has already begun to supply significant part of this surplus power to the UP state grid.