The government of Gujarat has approved as many as seven projects worth Rs 15,000 crore in the states.
The projects approved include those of Essar Power, ONGC, Cairn India, and multi-product economy zone, IOCL, among others. The remaining two projects will also be cleared soon. These projects are being approved by the project monitoring group being set up by the Centre.
Further, to facilitate faster clearance of projects worth less than Rs 1,000 crore, the Gujarat government is planning to set up its own project monitoring group on the lines of the monitoring group set up by the Centre.
As many as six states, including Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, have already set up the project monitoring groups.