Presented below is the ProjectsToday Weekly
Round-up, organized by major industry sectors,
for the week ending 17 September 2005.
Overall Developments
- Pact signed for WB-assisted project in TN (more
news)
Foreign Direct Investment
IIA Indian
Investment Abroad & Overseas Contracts
- Indian Oil-OIL, OVL to bid for Libyan
blocks (more news)
- Praj Industries bags Turkish order (more
news)
Textiles
- Maral
Overseas Rs.100 crore garment project in Gurgaon district of Haryana is scheduled for completion by June 2006.
(more news,
project
details)
Chemicals (incl rubber, fertilisers)
- Metallurgy Work on Phase-I of Rs.48.80 crore steel rolls project of Tayo
Rolls at Jamshedpur in Purbi Singhbhum district of Jharkhand is
scheduled for completion in 2005-06. (project
details)
- Phase-II of the project is scheduled for
completion by September 2008. Civil work on 50 tpd, steel ingot project of
Dhanbad Fuels at Bardhman district of West Bengal has been completed.
The project is expected to be commissioned by November 2005. (project
details)
- RINL-NMDC to
jointly set up sponge iron plant in Chhattisgarh (more
news)
- Jharkhand mega
project: Mittals withdraw iron export clause? (more
news)
- Seven PSU steel project
segments by Jan 2007 (more
news)
Machinery & Electronics
- Tecumseh Products
India's Rs.50 crore air conditioner compressors unit at Hyderabad in
Andhra Pradesh is likely to commence operations from 16 September 2005. (project
details)
Mineral
Fuels
- Petrobangla Jamalganj coal field development to Gail
(more news)
Petroleum
Products
- Southern Biofe Bio Fuels entered into a tripartite agreement with
Lurgi Life Science of Germany and Chemical Construction International
for its Rs.17.10 crore, bio diesel project in Nalgonda district of Andhra
Pradesh. (project
details)
- Petron Civil Engineering was awarded a Rs.57 crore civil contract in June 2005 by Reliance Engineering Associates for the Jamnagar Refinery
expansion project in Gujarat. The scope of work includes construction of 92' dia
crude storage tank and duke wall at the Jamnagar refinery. (project
details)
Oil & Gas Pipelines
Electricity
- PGCIL to invite private bids for Maharashtra, Gujarat projects
(more news)
- Dabhol power project: Asset transfer soon
(more news)
- RPG signs MoU for 1,000 MW power plant
in Jharkhand (more
news)
- Work on Akpa-Pooh transmission line of Himachal Pradesh
State Electricity Board in Kinnaur district is expected to commence by
October 2005 and likely to be completed by April 2006. (project
details)
Roadways
- Elevated road
project gets approval (more
news)
- Work on Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development
Authority's Rs.31.20 crore Andheri-Ghatkopar Link road project, a part
of Mumbai Urban Infrastructure Project, is scheduled for completion by December
2005. (project
details)
- NHAI awards highway contracts of Rs.1,000 crore in August
(more news)
- NHAI
awarded three contracts for four-laning of Gorakhpur-Ayodhya section
on NH-28 to Hindustan Construction Company worth Rs.255 crore, Nagarjuna
Construction Company worth Rs.266 crore and B Seenaiah & Company (Projects)
worth Rs.262.60 crore. (project
details)
- On 10 September 2005, NHAI through its SPV-- Calcutta Haldia
Port Road Company (CHPRCL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU)
with Haldia Development Authority (HDA) for the ongoing Haldia port connectivity
project (more
news, project
details)
- NHAI awarded a contract worth Rs.250 crore to Hindustan
Construction Company for construction of 42-km stretch between Ayodhya-Lucknow
on NH-28. ( project
details)
- Bangalore Mahanagara Palike's Rs.16.98 crore flyover project at
National College Circle in Basavanagudi near Bangalore in Karnataka was
inaugurated at the hands of Chief Minister Sri N Dharam Singh on 13 September
2005. (project
details)
- Railways (Urban Transportation) Mumbai metro project: Financial bids by 16
November (more news)
Shipping Infrastructure
Aviation Infrastructure
- The Karnataka
Government is likely to be sign an MoU with the Civil Aviation Ministry
on 23 September 2005 for reopening the Mysore airport implemented by Airports
Authority of India in Karnataka. (project
details)
Telecom
- MTNL to invest Rs.1,312 crore,
targets 5.5 lakh new connections in Delhi (more
news)
- Delhi Airtel plans to establish
largest network in Gujarat (more
news)
Industrial & Software Parks
- MoU for Integrated Textile Park Scheme
today (more news)
- The first phase of the Tidel Park II, promoted in a joint
venture between Tamil Nadu Industrial Devp. Corpn. (Tidco) and
Ascendas India was, completed and inaugurated at the hands of Ms.J Jayalalithaa,
Hon'ble chief minister of Tamil Nadu. (more
details)
- Accenture's software development centre in
Chennai district of Tamil Nadu was completed and formally inaugurated. (project
details)
Commercial Complex
- On 14 September 2005, National Buildings Construction
Corporation (NBCC) has signed an MoU with ONGC for the construction of
the office complex at Bandra Kurla complex in Mumbai. (project
details)
Water & Waste
Management
- Work on Kerala Water Authority's water supply scheme at Mahe in
Pondicherry is scheduled for completion by March 2006. (project
details)
- On 13 September
2005, IVRCL Infrastructure & Projects signed an agreement with
Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board for 60 acres of land at
Minjur for construction of 100 MLD treatment of DBOT basis for sea water
desalination project in Tamil Nadu. Page 3 of 4 (project
details)
- Work on 12 MLD capacity common effluent treatment plant (Unit 0 19071 0 II)
of Balotra Water Pollution Control & Research Foundation Trust at Balotra in
Barmer district of Rajasthan is scheduled for completion by the end of September
2005. (project
details)
Miscellaneous
- Capital goods production up 13.6pc in Apr-Jul
(more news)