Jaypee Cement, the cement manufacturing arm of Jaiprakash Associates (JPA) is waiting for an approval to set up a 2.4 – mtpa cement plant in Gujarat’s Kutch. According to a report, the company has formed a joint venture with Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation Limited called Gujarat Jaypee Cement and Infrastructure Limited, through which it...
Construction
Peugeot to start construction of Gujarat plant in November
According to Economic Times report French car-maker PAS Peugeot Citroen will start construction of their car manufacture facility in Gujarat’s Sanand in November this year. The report says that stone laying ceremony will take place on November 3 at the 600 acre site where a plant with investment of Rs 4,000 crore is going...
HCC wins Rs. 298.63 crore Limbdi branch canal project
Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) has won a Rs 298.63 crore contract from Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam to construct the Limbdi branch canal in Gujarat, the engineering and construction company said in a notice to the stock exchanges. HCC said the project will be completed in 18 months and it will also maintain and operate...
Six Laning of Ahmedabad – Vadodara National Highway sanctioned
The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure today approved the development of six laning of 102.3 Km. long Ahmedabad – Vadodara section on National Highway NH-8 in the State of Gujarat under NHDP Phase V on Design, Build, Finance, Operate and Transfer (DBFOT) basis in BOT (Toll) mode of delivery. The total project cost is estimated...
Rs 1,145.45-crore to be invested by private players in six-lane Bagodara-Tarapur highway
The Gujarat State Road Development Corporation, under the Roads & Buildings Department, has signed a concession agreement with GVK Development Project Ltd to convert the 101.9-km long three-lane Bagodara-Vasad-Tarapur into a six-lane road with the latest infrastructure facilities on Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) basis as a Public-Private Participation (PPP). The project connecting south Gujarat with Saurashtra...
Royalty on minor minerals for buildings to be charged from end-users from April 1
Government of Gujarat has passed a resolution to charge royalty on minor minerals used as building materials from the end-users, instead of lease holders, with effect from April 1, 2011. Minister of State for Mines and Minerals Saurabh Patel said the decision for change has been taken to bring about transparency and simplification in...
Tapi River Front Project works to kick off in Surat
The city of Surat will get its sixth river bridge and river front project today on 25 January. Gujarat Cheif Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a bridge on river Tapi that connects Dabholi and Jahangirpura. Modi will also address a public meeting in Jahangirpura, but that programme will be about employment related state programmes....
Gujarat envisages becoming the ‘Cement Capital of India’
As a run-up to the Vibrant Gujarat 2011 Summit, the Government of Gujarat today held a seminar on “Integrated mining cities”. Organised by the Government of Gujarat and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) with the support of the Industrial Extension Bureau (iNDEXTb), this seminar focused on the concept of introducing integrated mining cities...
Gujarat’s official realty market to touch Rs50k cr mark
-State’s S&R revenue is likely to increase by 19.12% in 2010-11 compare to 2009-10 -Unofficial estimate of the state’s realty market size Rs.83000/- crore Though the experts are expecting a minor or medium scale correction in Gujarat’s realty market due to sky rocketed property prices in last two years but the state government is...
Ahmedabad Metro to be designed to carry 40,000 passengers per hour
The ambitious Ahmedabad Metro project will soon get on the fast track as Surveys and the detailed project reports of ambitious Ahmedabad Metro project’s first phase, are in their final stages. The First Phase plan of the Metro Rail project is to facilitate movement between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. Preparation of Detailed Project Report (DPR)...
Three new bridges to be opened in Surat today
Surat is getting thee new bridges built by Surat Municipal Corporation on Friday. Gujarat’s Urban Development Minister Nitin Patel is going to inaugurate the bridges. The bridges are constructed at a cost of Rs 27 crore. Amroli bridge, named as Pandit Shyamji Krishna Verma bridge, joins Amroli and Katargam and has been built at...