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ProjectsToday Weekly Round-up: 17 Nov 2007

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

New Projects
(To view new projects added during the period 11 - 17 November 2007, click here)

• IOC plans petrochemicals unit at Haldia

• ETA Star to develop mall at Juhu

Response to tenders

• L&T, Gammon shows interest in Ganga Expressway project

• Four in fray for preparing master plan for Navi Mumbai airport

• Thirteen companies evince interest in Jharkhand UMPP

• Karnataka receives initial bids for Karwar deep-sea port

Approvals, Clearances

• Cabinet approves Dwarka-IGI Airport metro rail link

• Tamil Nadu government sanctions 39 bridges

• Approval for Hyderabad-Vijayawada four-lane project 

MoUs signed

• SPCL signs MoU with Chinese company for 1,200 MW power project 

General developments

• Texmaco signs MoA with with United Group Rail Services

• Columbia Asia Hospitals signs pact to develop hospitals

• Wockhardt to set up 14 hospitals by 2009

• Three state signs pact for joint coal exploration

• The DPR for Uttaranchal Jal Vidyut Nigam's 480 MW Pala Maneri hydroelectric power project on river Bhagirathi in Uttarkashi is completed

• Sixty blocks to be offered under NELP VII

• NHAI signs concession agreement for Delhi/Haryana Border-Rohtak section

• RPG Enterprises to expand Philips Carbon Black capacity

• RIL gets exploration rights for deepwater block in Oman

• Sterlite Optical plans optical fiber capacity expansion

• Bhoomi poojan performed for Ansal Housing's township project

• New guidelines to speed up public investment projects

• IVRCL acquires Alkor Petroo

• NBCC forays into power generation

• AMR Agro to diversify into sugar

• NHPC to add 25,000 MW capacity in 20 years

• Telcon to set up training, R&D centres

• Competitive bidding mooted for city gas

• CESC in joint venture with the Ministry of Coal, Govt of India made allocation of Mohuagarhi Coal block for 1,000 MW coal based power plant at Katikund

• Civil work for Sunil Ispat & Power's 350 tpd sponge iron unit in Raigarh district is completed & machinery erection is underway

• Kochi LNG terminal: EPC contract to be awarded by December 2007

Inorganic Indian Investment Abroad

• OIL to pick up equity stake in five oil blocks

General Investment Plans

• Essar Oil to invest Rs.24,000 crore by 2010

• Unitech lines up major capex

• JNPT's channel deepening project to commence by early-April 2008

• Piramal Enterprises, Suntech JV to invest Rs.1,000 crore

• REL to invest Rs.4,065 crore in Orissa

• Private shipbuilding companies to invest Rs.18,500 crore to expand capacity

• Puravankara to invest Rs.1,000 crore in South India

• SKF to invest Rs.420 crore in two manufacturing facilities

• Bombay Rayon to invest Rs.1,100 crore in Maharashtra

• Jamna Auto to invest Rs.120 crore in expansion

• Satyam Computers' to invest Rs.800 crore in Tamil Nadu

• SISCOL plans Rs.3,000 crore capex

• Tech Mahindra to invest Rs.1,000 crore

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