Upcoming Projects in India

The proposed project will generate direct and indirect employment for 700 people.

The Indian plant is a 100% subsidiary of the company and will involve an initial investment of Rs 57 crore. Total investment for setting up four plants in the next 10 years will be Rs 229 crore. The factory will commence operations in 2015, said the company sources.

As part of its growth strategy, Srithai Superware India intends to delve deeper into India's smaller cities and towns by having a varied price range to suit all pockets. The company also plans to export the products to neighbouring/South-Asian countries, once the manufacturing unit is operational.

The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), which is the implementing agency for the inland waterway project, will get a secured loan from CIDCO to the extent of 35 per cent of the total cost or Rs 400 crore at an interest of 9 per cent.

Earlier, the government had decided to implement the project on public private partnership (PPP) basis, but it did not receive the expected response.

The project, proposed along the East Coast of the city connecting Navi Mumbai and Mumbai, will now be developed on the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) model.

"We will be funding the project through debt, which would be to the extent of 35 per cent (around Rs 400 crore) of the project cost at an interest of nine per cent," Cidco Vice Chairman and Managing Director Sanjay Bhatia told PTI here.

CIDCO has, however, imposed two conditions for providing the loan-passenger ratio derived by MSRDC. It should be verified from a third party like the IIT to check the viability and there should be a joint monitoring committee of government, MSRDC and Cidco officials to monitor the project.

"We have given this proposal to MSRDC and they will submit it to the government," Bhatia said.

The Eastern transport project, which involves construction of ferry terminals at three locations--Ferry Wharf, Nerul and Mandwa -- has already received the Union Environment Ministry's Experts Appraisal Committee (EAC) in-principle approval.

"The project is now before the state government's sub-committee on infrastructure for its approval. We have decided to take up this project on a war footing basis," MSRDC Vice Chairman and Managing Director Anil Diggikar said.

Meanwhile, MSRDC is also working on western transport project, which will make commuting between the western suburbs and the island city more efficient and faster. This project too was green-signalled after environmental clearance.

The CM was accompanied by power minister Rajendra Prasad Singh, Jharkhand Vidyut Vikas Nigam Ltd (JVVNL) chairman S N Verma, Palamu MP Kameshwar Baitha and Daltonganj MLA KN Tirpathy.

The company is also planning to double capacity of its research and development and IT operations-- Lennox India Technology Center (LITC)-- and would invest $10 million in India this year.

“We are in the midst of making a determination on whether to set up operations through joint venture or we can come and set up a manufacturing facility on our own,” said Prakash Bedapudi, chief technology officer, Lennox International (LII). However, the company did not list out a specific time line for the execution of plans.

With the policies falling into place for better cold storage facilities for preservation of food and grocery, the company expects the market to grow faster in future.

The refrigeration equipment market in India is pegged at $1 billion (around Rs 6,200 crore) and was growing at around 20 per cent annually.

Bhagyanagar and Surana have already commissioned two 5-MW solar photovoltaic units each in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, respectively.

While the first unit set up in Munipally in Medak district of Andhra Pradesh was commissioned about six months after it was ready due to delays in securing linkages and permissions, the management is considering deferring the implementation of the other two solar projects of 5 MW each, Narendra Surana, Managing Director, Bhagyangar and Surana Ventures, told Business Line.

The companies have decided to defer the implementation of new projects till the Government extends support.

Surana said the erratic mode of evacuation of power at the Munipally unit is causing hardship to the company.

While the power gets generated by 6.30 a.m. or 7 a.m., it is not being evacuated as there is no power supply to the rural area around during that time. This is causing severe financial strain, making the project unviable.

The company has invested about Rs.30 crore on the project.

“Given this backdrop, the company is reconsidering its plan to set up two units of 5 MW each at Medak and Vikarabad.

The company would develop 950 apartments in this 17.5 acre project, of which 156 flats would be for elderly people.

"We have tied up with Age Ventures for management of 156 flats for senior living. It will also help us in designing and marketing," Silverglades Director Anubhav Jain told reporters.

Jain said the company would invest about Rs 300-350 crore on development of the entire project, including senior living community.

The construction of project would start later this year and would be completed in four years.

AGE Ventures CEO Arun Gupta said: "This is our third tie up with developers. We have partnered Brigade Group in Bangalore and another builder in Jaipur".

Age Ventures provides expertise in retirement homes and persuaded developers to include senior living in their residential developments. Its knowledge partners are Helpage and UK's leading expert in retirement homes MHA.

"Construction works of continuously reinforced cement concrete road with CD works including free maintenance guarantee period of 5 years on EPC Turn-key basis at Shaper Veraval Industrial Estate, dist. Rajkot under the scheme of critical infrastructure project of GoG," the company said

UAD minister Kailash Vijayvargiya while talking to mediapersons in Ujjaini announced that Murthy would be visiting Indore on February 24 to lay the foundation stone for Infosys City campus. 

Vijayvargiya was addressing mediapersons after participating in the state cabinet meeting held at Narmada-Kshipra linking spot at Ujjaini on Tuesday.

Infosys had received a notification for its proposed Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Super Corridor area of Indore recently.

The company will be developing the SEZ in a 130-acre area and the campus is likely to be operational within 4-5 years.

As part of the first phase of the project, the company would construct 54-metre high Software Technology Park (STP), having three blocks of nine floors each. Besides, the company would also construct a utility complex and parking facility, an official source said.

After the first phase, Infosys is expected to offer direct employment to 3,000 persons.

Another IT giant TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) had laid the foundation of its campus in Indore on August 10 last year. The project has five phases of which phase I has already begun. In the first phase, TCS will develop its premises with an investment of Rs550 crore within two years.

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Banas Dairy plans to invest nearly Rs. 300 crore for creating a milk processing facility at Faridabad. The plant will manufacture products such as pouched milk, curd, buttermilk and ice-cream under the brand name of Amul, a GCMMF official said here.

The foundation stone laying ceremony for the plant, having a capacity to process 10 lakh litres of milk daily, was held on Monday. This is the fourth plant in NCR for member unions of GCMMF. Earlier, the Mehsana District Cooperarive Milk Producers’ Union Ltd (Dudhsagar Dairy) had set up two plants at Manesar and Dharuhera, while the Sabarkantha District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd (Sabar Dairy) had set up a plant at Rohtak.

The State Government is planning to utilise this IT backbone to roll out the Food Security Bill this year. “The delivery system would improve significantly as the project envisages computerisation of records, inventory management and foodgrain flow from public warehouses. The system will also monitor distribution even at the level of fair price shops,” 4G Identity Chief Executive Officer Sreeni Tripuraneni said in a statement.

He was speaking at the foundation stone laying ceremony of Gadarwara plant.

Power Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia laid the foundation stone for the first 800 MW unit of Gadarwara project. The plant would have two units of 800 MW each.

According to the Minister, the project would ultimately have a generation capacity of 3,200 MW entailing a total investment of nearly Rs 25,000 crore, the statement said.

Coal for the Gadarwara plant would be sourced from the Talaipalli block in Mand-Raigarh coalfields.

The scheme is proposed to be developed on around 250 bigha land and will have 1,510 plots. Approval for layout plan of the housing project, titled Anand Vihar, was given in the project works committee meet on Tuesday. It will be located along in Jaisinghpura, Kaakroda and Privthiraj Singh Pura areas.

This project will be the first full scope limestone based FGD for a 500 MW plant in India and the fourth FGD project installation for Alstom in the country.

The scope of the contract includes delivery of the wet limestone based FGD system for the 1x500 MW pulverized coal-fired boiler unit on full turnkey basis including designing, engineering, manufacturing, testing, civil works, erection and commissioning.

The Central Pollution Control Board's mandate to improve emission regulations from thermal power plants have prompted thermal power companies in India to adopt measures that include installation of pollution control systems for control of SO2 emissions.

After completing its ongoing USD 20 million (around Rs 120 crore) expansion at the Pune plant by May 2015, Haier would start work on the proposed new new plant.

"We are planning for a new manufacturing plant in the Northern region. We would take up this new project after May 2015 when we would finish our expansion plan in Pune," Haier India President Eric Braganza told PTI.

When asked about the investments planned for the new project, Braganza said the company would invest Rs 100 crore but was yet to find a new location for it.

"We have not decided on any location in North. It would depend on the what kind of incentives we are going to get and what would be the government's policy at that time," he said, adding that the new proposed pant would manufacture washing machines and air conditioners.

"Logistically India is a huge market and when you expand, you need at least at three plant to meet the demand," he said.

Commenting on the future plans for India, he said the company may also consider having a third plant for the southern market after 5-6 years.

The company manufactures washing machines and refrigerators at its Pune plant and would soon start producing some models of flat panels in India.

Haier India Managing Director Song Yunjun said: "In a rising market like India, it is heartening to experience the commendable growth Haier has achieved over the decade."

The company today introduced 71 products here in four categories -- washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioner and panels -- under its 'i-age'.

"We signed an agreement a couple of weeks ago with the Punjab government for a 150-mw solar farm. the project, which will be commissioned by December, 2015, will involve an investment of around Rs 1,200 crore," Hindustan Cleanenergy Chief Executive RajyaWardhanGhei told PTI.

On funding part, he said the company normally follows the 70:30 rule of debt-equity ratio. He also said normally, after all the approvals, it takes six months for them to commission a solar farm.

Hindustan Cleanenergy is a subsidiary of Hindustan Powerprojects in which the PE firm Blackstone India has a 33% interest and the rest is with promoter RatulPuri.

Ghei said the project will need about 750 acres and the farms could come up on government land spanning four districts of Mohali, Patiala, Ropar and Sangrur.

When asked whether the company has identified the land and secured them, he said the state is working on a policy under which it proposes to allow private energy developers to lease out the land from the government.

On the power purchase agreement, he said it will be signed after the land acquisition is done.

The company has signed an agreement with Medica to set up two super-speciality hospitals in Kalinganagar and Gopalpur in Odisha, Tata Steel Managing Director, T V Narendran said while inaugurating a modernised and upgraded 150-bed Kantilal Gandhi Memorial Hospital here today.

Medica Chairman, DrAlok Roy told newsmen that as per the tie-up, Medica would manage both the proposed hospitals of Tata Steel at Kalinganagar and Gopalpur.

Each hospital would have a capacity of 500 beds and Rs 300 crores would be invested, he said.

Roy said 50 acre (10 acre in Kalinganagar and 40 acre in Gopalpur) has been earmarked for the proposed hospital.

The hospital in Kalinganagar, where the foundation stone has been laid will be completed in one and half year.

Royal Enfield is looking to complete work at its Oragadam facility in the next two years thereby taking the total capacity across the two plants to over 5 lakh units annually by 2016. It had produced a total of 1.78 lakh bikes in 2013.

"We will be making an investment of Rs. 600 crore in Royal Enfield towards capacity expansion and development of new global product platforms over 2014 and 2015," Eicher Motors Ltd MD and CEO Siddhartha Lal told reporters here.

The investment will go into capacity expansion, improving research and development (R&D) infrastructure and adding new products, he added.

the demand for our bikes in the market," Lal said.

By 2015-end the Oragadum plant would be completed fully thereby taking the total capacity to around 5 lakh units per annum, he added.

Lal said the additional capacity would help in reducing the waiting periods for various models.

When asked about the new product platforms, Lal said: "In the next 5-7 years horizon, we will be entirely focused on the mid sized motorcycle segment (250 cc-750 cc). We do not have any intention to enter below or above this segment."

He added that the new platforms are being developed keeping in mind global ambitions of the company.

"We are working on multiple platforms. What will be the final outcome can't be known now," Lal said.

The company, which sells Bullet, Classic, Thunderbird and Continental GT models, is also looking to enhance its dealer network in the next three years.

"We currently have around 300 dealerships across the country. In the next 2-3 years this number would grow to around 500," Lal said.

Commenting on the the recently introduced 'Pro Series' range of trucks in the 5-49 tonnes segment, Lal said the entire product range would be out in the next 18 months.

When asked about progress on the 50:50 joint venture with US-based Polaris Industries, he said: "It is well on track for a commercial launch in 2015."

While addressing the gathering at Navadih under Asansolpanchayat of the district, Soren said providing safe drinking water to rural populace tops his list of priorities. Soren also iterated his commitment to the welfare of the displaced people of the Masanjor Dam, constructed in 1956.

People who lost land to the dam are yet to receive compensation from the government

Foundation stones for drinking water facilities were also laid at Jhajhapara and Basmatta. Two other drinking water supply schemes at Sidpahadi and Kolakonda villages will be announced on Thursday. The total cost of the five water supply systems, undertaken by the drinking water and sanitation department, is estimated to cost Rs 77.41 crore approximately.

According to a rough estimate around 75000 residents in 100 villages would be benefitted from these drinking water supply schemes.

The CM also laid the foundation stone for the widening of 14.7km stretch between Pattabari and Masanjor, under the road construction department, at the cost of Rs 39 crore approximately. Although the work for the drinking water supply projects were going on for the last several months, the move to lay foundation stones is widely viewed here to be an attempt to take political mileage ahead of the LokSabha and assembly elections.

The company has awarded an EPC contract for Rs 680 million. While, Central Public Works Department (CPWD) gave a contract of Rs 1,790 million for construction buildings under phase-I North for IIT Mandi at Kamand, Himachal Pradesh.

Paras Buildtech India has awarded an EPC contract of Rs 780 million for execution of civil and structural works for Gurgaon Haryana.

While, Hospital Services Consultance Corporation (HSCC India) has awarded an EPC contract of Rs 1,380 million for construction of housing complex, teaching block and auditorium block including dismantling of existing building and their foundation for Kalpana Chawla government Medical College, Karnal, Haryana (Package - I).

SPML has awarded a contract Rs 2,300 million for the work of regional water supply scheme of Beawar, Rajasthan. It has bagged order worth Rs 2,270 million in Bharatpur, Rajasthan.

North western railway has bagged order Rs 350 million for work of construction of railway under bridge at Sikar Lohuru section, Rajasthan.

NBCC has awarded an EPC contract of Rs 1,220 for construction of Mahanadi Institute of Coal Management at Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

PWD Odisha has awarded an EPC contract of Rs 410 million for construction of district head quarter hospital at Jharsuguda under NRHM fund.

“Having stabilised the SmartCity Kochi project with the first phase of 650,000 sft property getting ready by December and the work on another 3.6 million sft to be launched soon, we are keen on looking for a similar but much larger project elsewhere in the country, preferably in the North. Our plan is to develop a new SmartCity project spanning 500-1,000 acres,” SmartCity India MD Baju George told . However, he did not specify the investment size saying it is too early to comment on that.

Considering the possible size of the project, it could be well over Rs 10,000 crore. The 246-acre Kochi project has capex of Rs 5,000 crore.

SmartCity Kochi is a cluster of futuristic buildings planed to house the ICT, media, finance, research & innovation giants from across the world in a 246-acre knowledge hub. SmartCity is the international business parks arm of Dubai Holding.    

George, who is also the head of SmartCity Kochi as its MD, said the company will finalise the plans after forthcoming general elections. When asked if Delhi NCR could be a potential location, George said: “Any location that can offer connectivity and a pool of raw talent will be okay with us. We are not looking at a well-developed IT centres like Pune or Hyderabad but not so developed areas, but good connectivity is a pre-condition.”    

The proposed SmartCity will be self-contained knowledge townships. “Like the Kochi project, there will be full-fledged digital master plan to ensure inter-operability so that the project is really smart and efficient,” George added.

The Kerala government holds 16 per cent equity in Kochi SmartCity project, while the rest is held by Tecom Investments, a subsidiary of Dubai Holding. Once completed, the project will be at least 8.8 mn sft developed area and is expected to create over 90,000 direct jobs.    

George said though the mandate is to have 8.8 million sft, the objective is to take this to 14 millionsft of developed area over the next five years. The company held a road show in Bangalore last month to attract both tenants and builders and another roadshow will be held in Mumbai in June to attract bankers, media etc, George said, adding SmartCity is not a construction or realty company but creating knowledge-based habitats and offices.    

The project, located in Narsingpur district, would have two super critical units, each with 800 MW capacity. State-owned NTPC said foundation stone for the plant is scheduled to be laid on February 19.

"An investment of approximately Rs 11,000 crore has already been approved by NTPC for setting up the project and it is targeted to be commissioned in the 13th Plan period (2017-22)," the company said in a statement.

Coal for the project would be sourced from the Talaipalli block in Mand Raigarh coalfields.

Half of the electricity generated from the plant would be supplied to Madhya Pradesh while the rest would be provided to other states in the Western region.

With the Narayanghat-Mugling road playing a major role in Nepal’s trade with India and other countries, this section has long required improvement.

The department said the consultant will carry out a feasibility study and also prepare designs for new bridges and maintenance of other bridges under the Road Sector Development Project funded by the World Bank (WB).

Currently, there are 18 medium bridges on the Narayanghat-Mugling section that were built more than three decades ago. According to the department which is carrying out the study with the support of the WB, the new crossings to be built will be of 9-m standard.

The current 5.5-m bridges have made it difficult for vehicles to pass easily from two directions simultaneously. Amid the necessity for road improvement, the government is also working on a separate project—Nepal-India Regional Trade and Transport Project (NIRTTP)—that will widen the 33-km Narayanghat-Mugling road to 9-11m. The WB has extended $99 million loans, including $69 million in soft loans and $30 million grant for this project.

Arjung Jung Thapa, spokesperson for the department, said whether to build completely new bridges or improve the existing ones to 9-m on the Narayanghat-Mugling stretch would depend on the feasibility study.

“We hope to start bridge work from fiscal year 2015-16,” he said.

An estimated 90 percent of Nepal’s total international trade traffic (about 6,000 vehicles per day) passes through this section, and the narrow road has remained as bottleneck for years.

The NIRTTP, which is also funded by the WB, will mainly work on modernising transit arrangements between Nepal and India, strengthening trade-related institutional capacity and improving selected trade-related infrastructure.

According to the department, the consultant to be hired by September this year would prepare detail design for the construction of about 54 news bridges , maintenance of around 51 existing bridges and update detail design study for the construction of 5 bridges , including the bridges on the Narayanghat-Mugling section of the Prithivi Highway.

Launching the third phase of HMIS recently, Tamil Nadu Health Minister, Dr. C. Vijayabaskar, said, “All 20 medical colleges and attached hospitals, including the Government dental college and hospital, four nursing colleges, two physiotherapy colleges, two pharmacy colleges and 23 nursing schools in Tamil Nadu will be included in the scheme.”

The HMIS project has a budget of INR 1.5 billion, of which INR 520 million is for the current third phase, according to local media reports. It is a centralised web-based, scalable solution based on “fully scalable open standards technologies,” described Project Director of the Tamil Nadu Health System Project, Pankaj Kumar Bansal.

Developed by Tata Consultancy Services, the HMIS application includes a health management system (HMS), management information system (MIS), college management system (CMS) and a university automation system (UAS). The health management system will have information on patients’ registration, diagnoses and other medical data.

The first and second phases saw the HMIS go online in 1613 primary health centres, while HMS was implemented in 258 hospitals.

All patient records on the HMS pass through a secured intranet line from the State Wide Area Network.

The MIS provides a service history of 35,000 employees of medical institutions across the state. It has been piloted in five hospitals for two years and the software is now ready, Kanagasabai noted.

The last tender, issued around two months ago, was recalled "as the cost estimate was rather high", according to a source from the civic body.

"The technology used will be the same - a combination of GPS and manual surveying - as all images and thickness of tree trunks cannot be mapped properly," the source added.

But there is still no consensus on the mode of conducting the census. The NMMC had floated a tender in 2011, but the budgetary provision of Rs 50 lakh was found to be inadequate for using satellite imaging. It was then decided to use manual mapping. The civic body once again floated a tender around October 2012, but even then they didn't appoint any agency.

The survey is carried out every five years under the Maharashtra (Urban Areas) Protection And Preservation Of Trees Act, 1975. The last survey was done in 2006, which was also the first for the civic body, since it was formed in 1992. The next census should have taken place in 2011, but was delayed for administrative reasons.

The human to tree count in the civic body area works out to one tree for every two persons. The 2006 census details a total of 4,79,120 trees. However, several activists and environmentalists feel that the civic body is to blame for the delay in conducting the census.

"There have been massive hacking for various infrastructure projects. At the tree belt along Thane-Belapur Road, at least 300 trees have been cut to build a service road. Similarly, on Sion-Panvel road and Aamra Road at Uran Phata many trees have been destroyed," said RTI activist Rajeev Mishra.

D Stalin of the NGO Vanashakti said, "If private parties are charging high rates to carry out the census, it's better to involve like-minded citizens and NGOs for counting the trees along with the civic body. Citizens can also do mobile tagging of the trees using GPS- enabled cell phones."

JSW Steel has lined up an investment of Rs 50,000 crore for setting up a 10 million tonne steel mill at an undecided location in Kendrapara district. The plant capacity will be three million tonne per annum in the first phase. The company has intended to locate the steel project close to a port since that would ease exports of finished steel products.

An empowered committee of the union cabinet has been authorised to take all decisions to implement the FAB projects. The proposed FABs will create direct employment of about 22,000 and indirect employment of about one lakh, according to an official release.

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