ProjectsToday Weekly
Round-up: 27 Oct 2007
Every Saturday, ProjectsToday brings together important project-related developments transpired during the week.
New Projects
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projects added during the period 21 - 27 October 2007, click here)
- Parsvnath to build two luxury
hotels in Jodhpur
- Ennore Foundaries plans casting facility
- ELCOT plans nine IT parks
- Rajasthan plans international
convention centre
Approvals, Clearances
- MoEF accorded clearances for Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam's
1,000 MW Anpara D coal-based power project in Sonbhadra.
- Government approves 15 captive coal
blocks
MoUs signed
- Triveni Engineering signs pact with
GE for compressors
- GHIAL signs MoU pact with Sabena
Flight Academy
- West Bengal signs MoU for solar
wafer manufacturing project
- BHEL signs MoU with TNEB for
Udangudi power project
General developments
- General Motors plans engine and
transmission parts facility
- Amartex Industries to expand
garment capacity
- Mundra Port to raise
fund through IPO
- GSPC discovers oil blocks in Cambay
- BSEL to foray into hospitality
sector
- Around 70 per cent work on Brigade
Group's township 'Brigade Gateway' at Bangalore is completed.
- Tata Chemicals plans ethanol plant
in Maharashtra
- Punjab approves Rs.250 crore master
plan for Amritsar
- BILT plans
major
capacity expansion
- Around 12 entities evinced interest
in Maharashtra Krishna Valley Dev Corp's Nira
Deoghar irrigation scheme in Pune on BOT basis.
- TRF to start site
activities for Krishnapatnam port
project in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh by December 2007.
- Astonfield plans BOO model for
renewable energy
- Kandla Port Trust to finalise contractor for port based
SEZ at Kandla port in
Gujarat. DPR is prepared & submitted to the government for approval.
- Trident Group plans
industrial-cum-agro-tech project
- Around 40 per cent work on Shree
Cement's one million tpa cement project at Ras in Pali district of Rajasthan
is completed.
- Consultants for Gujarat Maritime
Board's Bedo port project in Jamnagar district of Gujarat is yet to be
finalised.
- IOC-OIL consortium scouts for local
partner to bid in Libya
- ONGC revises gas reserve estimate
for KG basin
- 3i India picks minority stake in
Adani Power
- L&T to float $1 billion
infrastructure fund
- Carlson to add 52 new hotels by
2009
- ONGC to sell 50 per cent stake in
KG basin offshore block
- GMR signs lease agreement for sugar
unit in Karnataka
- GSFC to invest Rs.500 crore
capacity expansion
Organic Indian Investment Abroad
- RIL in talks for two oil blocks in
Peru
- NTPC plans Indonesian JV to secure
coal linkage
- OMEL acquires 30 per cent stake in
Turkmenistan block
- GAIL plans petrochemical complex in
Russia
General Investment Plans
- Andhra Pradesh to invest
in SEZ infrastructure
- BPCL
plans
retail outlets
- IIFCL to fund
on PPP projects
- Uppal Housing to invest in hospitality sector
- Gulf Finance House raises $630
million for Energy City
- Alpha G: Corp to invest in realty projects
- Akruti City to invest Rs.1,500
crore in Pune
Policy Developments
- Draft airport policy finalised
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