ProjectsToday Weekly Round-up: 12 July 2008

Every Saturday, ProjectsToday brings together important project-related developments transpired during the week.  

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New Projects
(To view new projects added during the period 06 - 12 July 2008, click here)

• Bengal Park plans housing project by West Bengal

• Umicore plans automotive catalyst plant

• Era Infra plans project in Madhya Pradesh

• Kamat Hotels plans luxury hotels at Nashik

• SAIL plans steel plant in J&K

• PIDB plans five-star, three-star hotels

• NSL Cotton Corporation plans integrated cotton development project

Approvals, Clearances

• Maharashtra Cabinet approves CIDCO's Navi Mumbai airport

• In-principle approval for Ludhiana-Mumbai freight corridor

MoUs signed

• HCV signs MoU with Tamil Nadu government

• MoU soon for Sikkim underground expressway

• SKIL Infrastructure signs MoU with Oman government

• MADC, Deccan Cargo signs MoU for cargo hub

General developments

• RIL inks pact with Peru company

• BPCL in JV for Kenya LPG bottling plant

• NTPC-BHEL plans boilers, turbines manufacturing facility

• CIL to invite EoIs for coal mines by end July

• DPR for Surat food park to complete by August

• NMDC Spice to acquire Armenia iron ore deposits

• Akruti City plans JV with Pacific Alliance Group

• Sixty per cent civil works completed of Jamshedpur automobile ancillaries unit

• Mudhal cotton yarn project: Phase I to complete by December

• Best Group in JV with Koki Technik Transmission Systems

• Dadupur hydel power: Unit I & II to complete by May 2009

• Tata Power likely to divest assets, holdings to part-finance capex

• EPC contractors for Surguja power project by August

• Captain TMT plans steel unit in West Bengal

• Civil works resumes for Orissa's Titanium project

• Tanti Group jointly with Arcapita Bank acquires Honiton Energy Holdings 

• Areva T&D successfully tests 1,200 kV transformers

• Trial runs begins at UCIL's processing plant

• World Bank team to assess Eastern Corridor project

• PFC Consulting plans JV wirh international firm

• L&T to restructure ECC division into four entities

• Sayaji Hotels to open Pune hotel project by year end

· Swastik Sponge plans power plant, coal washery unit at Korba

• Moser Baer to foray into entertainment business

• Nigeria cancels award of oil blocks to two Indian companies

• Sri Lankan government signs pact with Cairn India

• Seven companies envinces interest in Kochi port capital dredging

• Vossing begins pre-feasibility study of Mumbai-Nagpur train corridor 

• Merlin Group enters pact for housing project in Kolkata

• Vedanta Aluminium to expand capacity of Lanjigarh refinery

• L&T, NHPC JV runs into rough weather

• MoEF clearance received for RIL's Raigad gas based power project 

• Bajaj-Nissan-Renault JV to be signed by end July

• NHPC, J&K inks JV on three power projects

• Land acquisition completed for Yamuna Expressway

• MMRDA to finance Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link project

• Bureau of Energy Efficiency , PTC sign pact

• Era Group to reorganise its business

• Two Indian companies shows interest in Kathmandu-Terai highway project 

• Land for Chennai airport expansion project to be soon handed over

• SpiceGas acquires BND Gas

• Visakh refinery expansion project: Feasibility report by September

• Mundra SEZ: Supreme court grants permission for construction work 

• NABARD sanctions funds for Bihar high-level bridge

• Petron Engineering receives four LoIs from Utility Energytech Engineers 

• Basic infrastructural works underway for Technopark III expansion

• KLE Society bags Kolhapur health city project

• Vipul launches housing project in Haryana

• Rusni Distilleries signs pact with Prithvi Bio-Projects

• BEML bags mining equipment contract

• Indian Railways in the process of achieving financial closure

General Investment Plans

• Thacker Dairy to invest in backward integration programme 

• Haryana government to spend to improve transmission system 

• Catmoss Retail plans project by FY11

• UB plans investment by 2010

• KIOCL to spend on Mangalore pellet modernisation project 

• Welspun Retail plans project by 2011

• Surat APMC plans  modern terminal market

• NABARD sanctions funds for Haryana, Punjab

• Osim International to invest in India

• Ennore Port plans major capex by FY11

• J P Morgan invests in BPTP

• Anu Laboratories plans chemicals manufacturing unit

• Government approves 23 coking and non-coking coal blocks

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