ProjectsToday Weekly Round-up: 12 July 2008
Every Saturday,
ProjectsToday brings together important project-related developments transpired
during the week.
New
Projects
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- 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
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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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