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Projects Database: Gujarat
Fact File
Capital: Gandhinagar
Area: 1,96,022 sq.km.
Population: 50,596,992
Coastline: 1,290 km
Gujarat one most
industrialized State's in India, is the sixth largest state in area and tenth most populous state in India.
Having the country’s longest coastline, Gujarat borders Pakistan, Madhya
Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.
Projects Investment (Chemicals, ports, roadways, power, etc)
According to the 24th Quarterly Survey of Projects Investment conducted by Projects Today, Gujarat ranked
third in terms of total outstanding investment in the country. As of 30 Sep
2006, the state had 789 projects worth Rs.2,12,593 crore in various stages of planning and implementation.
Compared with a year ago statistics, the
outstanding investment in the state increased by 41.1 per cent.
Despite of this steep increase in outstanding investments, the state
managed to maintain a high project implementation ratio of 44.0,
almost at par with the national matrix.
The share of Gujarat in projects investment in India is around
8.6 per cent. Nearly 55 per cent of the investment in the state was by the
private agencies while the remaining 45 per cent is by the public sector.
The major industries attracting projects investment are thermal based power, shipping infrastructure (ports), petroleum refineries and petrochemicals, oil/ gas pipelines and storage, industrial parks, roadways, telecom services, non-ferrous metals and cement and community welfare schemes.
Ten Mega Projects in Gujarat
Top Ten Projects currently underway in the state are:
| Promoter |
Project |
Industry |
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Reliance Petroleum Ltd.
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Jamnagar Petroleum Refinery (SEZ)
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Petroleum Products [Refinery]
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Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd.
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Sardar Sarovar (Narmada)
Irrigation
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Irrigation
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Oil & Natural Gas Corpn. Ltd.
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Petrochemical Complex (Dahej)
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Petrochemicals [Hydrocarbon]
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Essar Oil Ltd.
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Vadinar Refinery
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Petroleum Products [Refinery]
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Pipavav Power Devp. Co.
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Pipavav Mega Power
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Gas Based Power
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Neyveli Lignite Corpn. Ltd.
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Lignite Based Power (South
Gujarat)
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Coal/Lignite Based Power
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Gujarat State Energy Generation
Ltd.
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Hansthal Tidal Wave
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Ocean Energy Based Power
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Gujarat Power Corpn. Ltd.
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Sarkhadi Barge Mounted Power
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Coal/Lignite Based Power
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Torrent Power Generation Ltd.
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Coal Based Power (Gujarat)
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Coal/Lignite Based Power
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Essar Power Ltd.
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Hazira Power Stage II
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Gas Based Power
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