On 30 October 2007, Reliance Energy (REL)
board approved a proposal to transfer its infrastructure projects to a separate
wholly-owned subsidiary.
The yet-to-be-named company will be a
wholly owned subsidiary of REL and execute projects such as roads, bridges,
metro rail and real estate projects. It includes four-laning of five National
Highway projects in Tamil Nadu covering a length of 400 km, the 20 km Western
Freeway Sealink Project in Mumbai, the Rs.6,000 crore project for the
construction of a 12 lane, 150 km highway around Jaipur and the metro rail
project in Mumbai.
A consortium led by REL has emerged as
the preferred bidder for the development of a new business district spread over
77 acres in Hyderabad, which includes construction of a 100 storey trade tower
(likely to be the tallest in South East Asia) at an investment of Rs.6,500
crore.