This thread will be used to track all the projects coming up in the state of Jharkhand

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PM lays foundation for expanding Bokaro Steel Plant (http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/3219)

To meet the increasing demand of steel and beat its skyrocketing prices, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh on Tuesday laid the foundation stone of ambitious Rs. 11,000-crore project for expanding and modernising Bokaro Steel Plant at Bokaro, Jharkhand.

Addressing to public meeting after laying the foundation stone of mega steel project, Prime Minister said that this ambitious project would fulfill the increasing demand of steel up to great extent.

“This expansion plan will also create new jobs that is the basic requirement of the state”, he said.

This newly inaugurated project would enhance the production capacity of hot rolled metal by 7.44 million tonne from 4.5 million tonnes while its crude steel production would also be enhanced from 4.36 million tonnes to 7 million tonnes. The plan is expected to begin operation by 2011-12.

Calcutta Telegraph (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080424/jsp/frontpage/story_9178754.jsp)

Khunti village will host central university
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Ranchi, April 23: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke about it yesterday. And now, Jharkhand’s first central university has finally found itself a home: it will come up over 300 acres at a site in Khunti district, 18km from the state capital.

On April 27, a team from the state human resource development department would visit the site — in village Dungra under the Khunti sadar block — along the Ranchi-Khunti road (near Sapphire International School).

Higher education director Anjani Kumar Shrivastava, who has confirmed the location, met officials of the Union HRD ministry recently.

Khunti deputy commissioner S.S. Meena told The Telegraph he had been asked to provide 300-acre land in and around Dungra village. “We have identified the probable land stretches. About 90 acres fall under gair mazarua (government) category, while the remaining over 200 acres are raiyati (private holdings) in the hands of both tribal and non-tribal owners,” he said.

Although the state HRD department is yet to send a formal requisition for land acquisition, sources revealed the state government would take prior consent from respective gram sabhas before starting the process.

State HRD secretary J.B. Tubid said his department would offer the identified land to the Union HRD ministry which was ready with a draft Bill for establishing 16 Central universities across the country.

The draft of the umbrella legislation that would govern all new Central universities for the first time has been sent to various ministries for their comments. As of now, there are only 22 Central universities in the country with Delhi having as many as four.

The 16 states where Central universities are to come up in the next five years at an estimated cost of Rs 5,000 crore are Maharashtra, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jharkhand and Punjab.

Calcutta Telegraph (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080425/jsp/jharkhand/story_8983757.jsp)

Maiden shuttlers’ complex in offing
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The badminton complex under construction
Hazaribagh, April 24: The state will get its first multi-complex with a badminton court within a couple of months.

Sources said the construction of this building, near the private bus stand along the Ranchi-Patna highway, is in the final stages.

The stadium would have a gallery and would be able to seat 500. Officials said the state government pumped in around Rs 7,600,000 to construct this building. According to them, the multi-complex would be 39m long and 20m wide, would have a hostel, canteen, offices, chairman’s room, staff rooms and 13 rooms for visitors.

Sports lovers said after the structure is completed, Hazaribagh would have a top-class indoor badminton stadium that is well equipped to host state and national-level tournaments. Many said the state lacks a proper indoor badminton stadium to host any big tournament. Though Hazaribagh has an indoor stadium for badminton players, there is no gallery here.

The former secretary of the district badminton association and a well-known coach, Naresh Sinha, welcomed the construction of the multi-complex. “I had been fighting for long to draw the attention of the government towards promoting badminton,” he said.

The new multi-complex would “definitely encourage” several people to take up this sport. “But other than the construction of the complex, I want the government to ask all private and government schools to organise badminton tournaments during their annual sports day,” he said.

Sinha said so far, the district badminton association had been organising state-level tournaments. “But we would be capable of hosting bigger events once this structure is completed,” he said.

Though several supported Sinha, they also said constructing such a complex would not solve the problem. They pointed out that an indoor stadium was constructed few years ago but due to lack of seriousness, only a handful of students visited the place to get tips on how to play this game.

“Construction of this complex is a positive indication but efforts are needed on the part of enthusiasts to popularise this game,” he said.

XL Mall, Ranchi - designed by Sanjay Puri

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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080429/jsp/jharkhand/story_9201757.jsp

Water to flow in slum areas

Much to the relief of those who reside in the slum and semi-slum areas of the city, around 351 public taps would supply clear drinking water all over again.

The decision was taken at the first board meeting, which was especially called by Amrinder Singh Deol, councillor of Ward Number 3 and nine others after the Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) failed to convene a meting of the newly constituted board even after two weeks of its constitution.

According to the RMC Act, a meeting of the board could be requisitioned by at least 10 members, in writing, giving a specific agenda, in case the chief executive officer failed to convene such a meeting.

Though RMC administrator Vinay Kumar Choubey, who is on leave, did not attend the meet, other RMC officials including Mukesh Verma, Sunil Kumar and Rekha Rani Singh were present.

Deol told The Telegraph that with summer temperatures soaring and residents facing an intense drinking water crisis, they had no option but to requisition a special meeting of the RMC board.

In addition to making public water taps functional again, the meeting further resolved to set up plastic water tanks in all areas which are not connected by pipe water supply lines. These tanks would be refilled by RMC tankers at regular intervals to ensure that all those residing within the municipal area get their daily quota of drinking water.

The meeting observed that most of the 2,000-odd hand pumps in the city were non-functional. Thus, it was decided that a complete list of hand pumps in each ward would be made and urgent repair jobs would be taken up on priority basis. Both the RMC repair teams as well as NGOs would be engaged in repairing the existing hand pumps in the city.

All encroachments on public drains would also be removed and the meeting decided to ensure that the five main drainage systems are cleaned before the monsoon.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News_by_Industry/Lemon_Tree_to_set_18_hotels_will_invest_Rs_2150_cr_by_2011/articleshow/2953847.cms

NEW DELHI: In tune with its plan to become India's second largest hotel-chain, Delhi-based 'Lemon Tree' has earmarked a budget of Rs 2,150 crore for setting up 18 hotels in the country by 2011. .......
........the company would also set up similar hotels in cities like, Jaipur, Pune, Mumbai Bhubneswar, Ranchi and Gurgaon.

The company is planning to raise funds through the mix of equity participation and internal accruals, Keswani said.

I think this is a slightly dated information, nonetheless a relevant one. ... The Raddisson Group is setting up its first 5-Star Hotel Project in the state capital:banana:.

http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=5&subLeft=5&chklogin=Y&autono=314501&tab=r


Nandini Gupta, executive director of Jagmohan Lal Gupta Estates Private Ltd, could not believe her luck when Carlson Hotels Worldwide (Asia- Pacific) agreed to lend its Radisson brand-name to the five-star hotel that her company was building in Ranchi.

Radisson is the upscale, full-service brand in Carlson’s portfolio. With the Radisson tie-up, the family-run company, which has a robust country liquor business in the state, will not only make its debut in the hospitality sector but enter with the backing of a major international brand.

Carlson has signed a management franchisee agreement with the Ranchi company. This means that apart from lending its brand name, the hospitality major will also assist in management of the property. The 118-room hotel is due to open in April 2010. ....... ....

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080505/jsp/jharkhand/story_9226021.jsp

Fests to promote tourism

The tourism department is set to reap rich dividends from the bunch of festivals in store in the state.

Following a state tourism department initiative, different districts would play host to festivals round the year. The department officials said 12 grand festivals would be held in districts across the state with each festival being the speciality of the respective place.

While a tourism festival would get underway in Netarhat in June, July would be the time for Shravani Utsav in Deoghar.

In August, Parasnath will gear up to host Shikharji Mahotsav, while the Rajrappa festival would be held in Hazaribagh this September.

A tourism festival would also be organised there in October.

Ranchi would host the tourism festival in November. The much-awaited festival at Palamau would be held in December and the international kite festival at Deoghar would be held in January. In February, the Hijla Mela would be held in Dumka. In March, Jamshedpur would host a festival.

“It is a very innovative concept. The objective is to ensure that the festivals currently organised at each of the places with the involvement of local people gets a wider recognition and is placed on the national scenario,” said Arun Kumar Singh, the secretary of the state tourism department.

The process of appointing festival event managers is on.

Working closely in association with the respective district administrations, the event managers would be responsible for liasing with hoteliers, domestic and international tour operators, artistes and publicity wings to ensure assured returns for the state.

“We will work closely on all aspects of providing quality amenities to visitors touring the state — right from accommodation to cultural shows in the evening,” added Singh.

The theme selection would be in accordance with the background of the festival.

For example, if the festival veers around tribal rituals, the cultural programmes would be designed according to the specified theme, said officials of the tourism department.

European industrialists interested in Jharkhand (http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blnus/27021706.htm)

JAMSHEDPUR: Prominent industrialists of Germany, France and Switzerland have expressed interest in mineral-rich Jharkhand and would visit the State soon, its Deputy Chief Minister Mr Sudhir Mahto said today.

"We had discussions with the chambers of the commerce of Germany, France and Switzerland and the focus of the discussion was on auto-component, steel, diary farm, power sectors," Mr Mahto said after returning from his 10-day tour to those countries.

While steel and auto-component sectors was the focus of the discussions with the chamber of commerce in Germany, Mr Mahto said he had invited reputed investors of Switzerland to invest in diary farming, power, tourism, development of modern townships, he alth and education sectors.

Mr Mahto, who had taken part in the Hanover Trade Fair last month along with industry department officials, said Jharkhand had set up a stall there and its handicraft and silk products under the brand name 'Jharcraft' were highly appreciated by the visit ors.

Asked about the steel industry in the State, he said Jharkhand had 64 MoUs with various companies including Tata Steel, Arcelor-Mittal and Jindal Steel.

The State aimed to enhance the steel production to 70-80 million tonnes in the next few years, he said adding the resettlement and rehabilitation policy would be placed in the cabinet soon for approval.

Calcutta Telegraph (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080508/jsp/jharkhand/story_9241026.jsp)

Bitumen boost to road

Ranchi, May 7: The government today approved of contractors’ buying bitumen in bulk for smooth completion or repair of different roads.

It also decided to engage Bihar State Bridge Construction Corporation and such other public sector undertakings for the construction of bridges and culverts at a review meeting presided by the chief minister. Huge amounts of bitumen and raw material would be required for the repair 2,100km of roads passing through the state. The expense would be about Rs 1,500 crore.

Tenders for strengthening and widening 600km of state roads have already been floated. The government has decided to create a special purpose vehicle for the repair of the rest of the stretch.

The road construction is often hit in the absence of adequate raw material. Companies like Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited at times expressed their inability for bulk packaging of bitumen. The prices of other road construction material, too, were expected to shoot up. “The petroleum companies are not averse to giving bulk supplies directly to the contractors, provided they make their own packaging arrangements,” said Koda, adding that the Bihar government had already given an NoC for the construction of a bridge over the Ganga in Sahebganj.

“Jharkhand’s economy cannot get a boost unless road connectivity improves,” Koda added.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080507/jsp/jharkhand/story_9236321.jsp
The officials of Birsa Munda Airport have set a six-month deadline to realise the grand expansion plan of the old terminal.

As part of the efforts to provide more facilities to players and officials arriving for the 34th National Games, the authorities also plan to beautify the garden in front of the airport to give a “special feeling” to the visitors........... . . . .



Looks like the much awaited Ranchi Airport Upgradation project is finally ready to take off ... Hope things don't get caught up again in red-tapes and Ranchi gets a decent airport to showoff^^.

Admist tight security, Chief Minster Naveen Patnaik laid the foundation stone for the improvement of road in Naxal-infested areas of Sambalpur district from Rairakhol to Naktideul here on Monday.

The 29.10 km long road, with carriage way of 7 metres and formation width of 12 metres, will be improved at an estimated cost of Rs 65.11 crore. It forms part of the 1,251.2 km Ranchi- Vijayawada corridor being developed for movement of security forces and usher in development of Naxal-hit areas.
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http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEQ20080602221435&Page=Q&Title=Orissa&Topic=0

Admist tight security, Chief Minster Naveen Patnaik laid the foundation stone for the improvement of road in Naxal-infested areas of Sambalpur district from Rairakhol to Naktideul here on Monday.

The 29.10 km long road, with carriage way of 7 metres and formation width of 12 metres, will be improved at an estimated cost of Rs 65.11 crore. It forms part of the 1,251.2 km Ranchi- Vijayawada corridor being developed for movement of security forces and usher in development of Naxal-hit areas.
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http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEQ20080602221435&Page=Q&Title=Orissa&Topic=0

I have read elsewhere that this highway will extend upto Vishakhapatnam.

Jindal Power signs MoU with Jharkhand govt for 2640mw power project (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Energy/Jindal_Power_signs_MoU_with_Jharkhand_govt_for_power_project/articleshow/3099279.cms)

MUMBAI: Jindal Steel & Power on Wednesday said it has signed an agreement with the Jharkhand government for setting up a power project in the state at an estimated cost of Rs 11,880 crore.

Jindal Power has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Jharkhand government for setting up 2,640 MW (4X660MW) power project in the state at an investment of Rs 11,680 crore, the company said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

As per the understanding, the state government would provide all necessary assistance, including providing state-level clearances, selecting coal blocks within the state and recommending Centre for allocation of coal blocks, among others.

Sky clear for star hotels in state (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080607/jsp/jharkhand/story_9377556.jsp)

- Deoghar, Bokaro among lucky towns; global tenders floated


Ranchi, June 6: To boost local tourism, the state government has taken a fresh initiative to invite national and international hospitality chains to set up three, four and five star hotels across the state.

The department of tourism today floated global tenders inviting expressions of interest to set up star hotels in the state capital, temple town of Deoghar, steel cities Bokaro and Jamshedpur and coal capital Dhanbad, and Chaibasa.

In July 2004, the government had invited similar tenders to which hospitality majors like Hyatt, InterContinental Hotels Group, ITC-Welcomgroup, The Kenilworth and The Broadway of US responded. But lack of initiative and inability to locate land stalled the project.

“Jharkhand is endowed with rich bio-diversity, good climate, grand cultural and historical heritage, famous places of worship and ethnicity. It could emerge as the ultimate destination for tourists, if only proper arrangements are made for them,” said Arun Kumar Singh, the secretary, planning and tourism.

Lamenting the acute shortage of star and quality budget hotels offering clean and hygienic food and lodging, he added, “We plan to cater to both luxury and budget travellers. There will be something to suit every pocket.”

Proposals have also been invited under public-private partnership — for which the government would set up an special purpose vehicle with the state tourism development corporation — for developing property under a joint venture.

The government has promised to help with land and provide incentives, which were being worked out. The hotels, which had earlier sent proposals, have been asked to revalidate their expressions of interest.

Singh was confident that the number of tourists to Jharkhand, which was 50 lakh, including pilgrims visiting Deoghar during Shravani Mela, could go up to at least 75 lakh as and when the hospitality plans take off.

In fact, the deputy commissioners of districts concerned have been asked to identify suitable land for the hotels. They have been told to make available good and free land, at least three acres and easily accessible, near airport, railway station and bus stand, whichever was available.

Apart from quality accommodation and multicuisine dishes, top-end hotels could be expected to provide facilities would like spa, health clubs, swimming pool, shopping arcades, discotheques, and in some cases, a golf course.

They would also be expected to have round-the-clock coffee shops and special restaurants for Indian delicacies.

Jharkhand’s dhuska, arsa, pua, chilka roti (rice), khajur, nimki, laddu (rice) and a whole array of saag (greens) could also be made part of the menu.

Indiabulls inks MoU for 1320MW power project (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Indiabulls_inks_MoU_for_power_project_in_Jharkhand/articleshow/3114921.cms)

MUMBAI: Indiabulls Power Services on Monday said it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Jharkhand government for setting up a 1,320 MW power project in the state.

The power project with a capital outlay of Rs 6,600 crore would be operational within four years from the date of financial closure, Indiabulls said in a statement.

The Jharkhand government would facilitate all clearances for the project under a single window and would assist the company in acquiring land.

The government would have the right to claim 25 per cent of power delivered by the proposed power plant and Indiabulls would sell the remaining 75 per cent, it said.

Indiabulls is developing the 1,320 MW Bhaiyathan Mega Thermal Power Project in Chhattisgarh, 2,640 MW project in Maharashtra and 4,000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project in Jharkhand.

Calcutta Telegraph (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080616/jsp/jharkhand/story_9417462.jsp)


Ranchi, June 15: National Sample Survey Organisation would undertake an extensive survey on domestic tourism, housing conditions and urban slums across the state.

It has constituted 544 sample survey units and will organise a three-day seminar in Ranchi from June 23 to discuss the issues.

“The current round is earmarked to collect information on domestic tourism, housing condition and urban slums. At the national level, the survey covers 12,928 units for central samples and 13,736 units for state,” said deputy director-general S.K. Das.

The survey on domestic tourism will mainly cover detailed information on household characteristics, trip characteristics, visitors’ characteristics and expenditure characteristics.

Domestic tourism has improved all over the country during the recent years and has played a great role in generating employment through different means.

Tourism specific development and investment, too, are on the rise in the national economy.

The survey on housing conditions will involve schedule data on structural aspects of dwelling units and basic amenities such as drinking water, toilet facilities, sewerage and electricity among others.

This would provide a broad idea of the dimensions of variables reflecting housing conditions.

The main purpose of the survey on urban slums is to collect information on present conditions and changes in the conditions of certain facilities available therein.

Both notified and non-notified urban slums would be taken into account.

The deputy director-general, however, also maintained that the data collected by the officials of field operations division are kept secret.

The result of the survey, the deputy director-general added, would be used for national planning and policy making purposes.

The National Sample Survey Organisation was set up by the Centre in 1950, for providing comprehen- sive information on a wide range of parameters to the policy makers and ad- ministrators for formula- ting Five Year plans, welfare and development oriented policies and also for appropriate administrative interventions.

The information provided by the National Sample Survey Organisation are also used by academicians and researchers for analysis and interpretation of socio-economic changes in the country.

Developers bet big on over 60 steel and power cos setting up offices in Ranchi

RANCHI, once the summer capital of unified Bihar, is still a favourite destination of many people, especially those in search of peace of mind. The city, with a population of over 15 lakh, still attracts people because of its comparatively pleasant climate and good schools. It has all the indicators of a modern city but it has not lost its traditional flavour, and that is where lies its charm.
The city has seen a phenomenal growth in real estate sector ever since it became the capital of Jharkhand in 2000. There is huge gap in demand and supply, primarily because of unavailability of land in the city area. “Ranchi witnessed huge influx of people from outside after becoming the capital. Many big companies started setting up offices here. All this resulted in a boom in the real estate sector — both residential and commercial,” says S N Singh, president of Jharkhand unit of Confederation of Real Estate Developers Association of India (CREDAI).
The city is also witnessing a retail boom. Big companies like Spencer, Reliance Fresh, Big Bazaar have already opened outlets. Reliance Hypermart will also be ready soon. Besides there are offices of most of the big companies and multinational banks. One multiplex has opened and another four are in the pipeline. This has resulted in a sudden growth in the sector. A few fivestar hotels are also coming up in the city.
However, the basic demand comes from sectors like banking, insurance, finance, telecom, coaching institutes etc. According to an estimate, more than 10 million sq ft structure is being created to meet the demand. Also, there is not much scope for speculators as the buyers are those who want to purchase for self use or want to settle in future.
According to a government official, a new capital township — Greater Ranchi — is to be developed for which a global tender ha been invited. “Ranchi has also been selected as one of the Millennium cities, to be developed under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewable Mission (JNNURM). All this is expected to give a fillip to the real estate,” he added.
With the state government announcing its rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R) policy, Jharkhand is poised for a big industrial boom. More than 60 companies, including ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel, Jindal Steel, Ispat Industries and Hindalco, have signed MoUs with the state government for setting up steel and power plants. Most of them have set up their offices in Ranchi while the rest are in the process of doing so. This has brightened the hope of developers.
“A majority of the development is taking place within the city. Unlike other cities, people here generally tend to avoid satellite areas because of poor connectivity in terms or road and public transport,” says Mr Singh. At present the concentration of development is in areas like Mahatma Gandhi Road, Circular Road, Ashok Nagar, Bariatu, Ratu Road and Kanke Road, where it is really difficult to get land. A majority of the projects are being carried out in joint venture or collaboration. “But we hope that once the Ring Road project, which is in the execution stage, is complete, the city will have a more defined area. In that scenario, connectivity of peripheral areas will also improve leading to further boom in the sector,” he adds.
According to Singh, the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act which prohibits sale of tribal land to non-tribals has been a major hurdle in the growth of real estate sector. “Due to the Act, we often find it hard to buy land for a project, despite being available in the municipal area. As a result, land prices are high but plots are less. The government must abolish this Act, at least in the urban areas, to facilitate real estate growth,” he adds.

source economictimes.com

ArcelorMittal applies for 11k acres in Jharkhand (http://www.financialexpress.com/news/ArcelorMittal-applies-for-11k-acres-in-Jharkhand/341925/)

World's largest steel producer ArcelorMittal has requisitioned over 11,000 acres of land from Jharkhand Government for setting up its proposed steel plant and resettlement colony in the State.

The move comes within days of the Jharkhand Government announcing its much-awaited Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy.

ArcelorMittal, which has proposed setting up a 12-million tonne integrated steel plant in Jharkhand with a whopping investment of about Rs 40,000 crore, has applied for about 8,800 acres for its steel plant and over 2,400 acres for the resettlement colony.

"The company has applied for land to the deputy commissioners of Gumla and Khunti districts, where it proposes to set up the plant," Secretary, Industries Department of Jharkhand, K K Khandelwal told PTI over phone.

Official sources said nearly 75 per cent of the land requisitioned by the global steel player belongs to private owners spanned across 14 villages, while the rest is owned by the Government.

Interestingly, the LN Mittal-led steel company has managed to skip the entire forest area falling in the vicinity of its proposed project site.

Ranchi-based agency Sigma had surveyed about 20,000 acres in Torpa-Kamdara blocks of Gumla and Khunti districts for ArcelorMittal's steel plant and resettlement colony.

Of the total land surveyed, ArcelorMittal has zeroed in on over 11,000 acres with the help of its consultant M N Dastur and Company, which has been entrusted with the job of preparing the company's detailed project report.

If this is the sign of things to come, then Ranchi's Birsa Munda Airport may soon have a new integrated terminal with facilities for International flights too ... Check this article published in TelegraphIndia.com: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080731/jsp/jharkhand/story_9625760.jsp

The Birsa Munda airport here will soon host an international terminal, complete with a VIP lounge and better passenger amenities....
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ArcelorMittal applies for land from Jharkhand

World's largest steel producer ArcelorMittal has requisitioned over 11,000 acres of land from Jharkhand Government for setting up its proposed steel plant and resettlement colony in the State.

The move comes within days of the Jharkhand Government announcing its much-awaited Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy.

ArcelorMittal, which has proposed setting up a 12-mn tonne integrated steel plant in Jharkhand with a whopping investment of about Rs 40,000 crore, has applied for about 8,800 acres for its steel plant and over 2,400 acres for the resettlement colony.

"The company has applied for land to the deputy commissioners of Gumla and Khunti districts, where it proposes to set up the plant," Secretary, Industries Department of Jharkhand, K K Khandelwal told over phone.

Official sources said nearly 75 per cent of the land requisitioned by the global steel player belongs to private owners spanned across 14 villages, while the rest is owned by the government.

Interestingly, the LN Mittal-led steel company has managed to skip the entire forest area falling in the vicinity of its proposed project site.

Ranchi-based agency Sigma had surveyed about 20,000 acres in Torpa-Kamdara blocks of Gumla and Khunti districts for ArcelorMittal's steel plant and resettlement colony.

Of the total land surveyed, ArcelorMittal has zeroed in on over 11,000 acres with the help of its consultant M N Dastur and Company, which has been entrusted with the job of preparing the company's detailed project report.


source economictimes.com (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Services/Property__Cstruction/ArcelorMittal_applies_for_land_from_Jharkhand/articleshow/3301681.cms)

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The company would invest Rs4,500 crore for setting up the power plant at Kandra in Saraikela-Kharswan district (http://www.livemint.com/2008/08/04142211/Adhunik-Group-arm-to-set-up-1.html)

Adhunik Thermal and Power Ltd, a unit of Adhunik Group, today said it would invest Rs 4,500 crore for setting up a 1,000 MW power plant in Jharkhand.
The plant, to be located at Kandra in Saraikela-Kharswan district, would come up in two phases. The company has already placed an order for a 2x135 MW unit to be set up in the company premises, Group Managing Director Manoj Agarwal said.
He said the company has been allotted coal mines jointly with Tata Steel and the process of getting environmental clearances and land acquisition is underway.
Describing the expansion plans of the Group, Agarwal said Adhunik Alloys and Power Ltd would also add two waste heat recovery boilers to generate 30 MW (2x15 MW) power out of waste gases, which will save around 11,000 tons of coal per month.
The boilers would help in keeping pollution levels at zero, as well as aid in keeping the steel production cost low, Agarwal said.
He added that AAPL would also place two kilns of 350 ton per day each by next May, which will double their steel-making capacity from two lakh tons per annum to four lakh ton per annum.
Agarwal said the 2x15 MW power project is likely to be synchronised by March-end 2009. The automation plant will be state-of-art and a zero pollution unit, he said.
Adhunik Alloys and Power Ltd would also add 2x20 ton induction furnace along with billet caster and Ladder Redefining Furnace (LRF) for quality steel-making capacity.
The induction furnace is scheduled to be completed by February next, he said, but did not reveal the investment size.

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Adhunik Group to set up 1,000 MW power plant in Jharkhand

Adhunik Thermal and Power Ltd, a unit of Adhunik Group, on Monday said it would invest Rs 4,500 crore for setting up a 1,000 MW power plant in Jharkhand.

The plant, to be located at Kandra in Saraikela-Kharswan district, would come up in two phases. The company has already placed an order for a 2x135 MW unit to be set up in the company premises, Group Managing Director Manoj Agarwal said.

He said the company has been allotted coal mines jointly with Tata Steel and the process of getting environmental clearances and land acquisition is underway.

Describing the expansion plans of the Group, Agarwal said Adhunik Alloys and Power Ltd would also add two waste heat recovery boilers to generate 30 MW (2x15 MW) power out of waste gases, which will save around 11,000 tons of coal per month.

The boilers would help in keeping pollution levels at zero, as well as aid in keeping the steel production cost low, Agarwal said.

He added that AAPL would also place two kilns of 350 ton per day each by next May, which will double their steel-making capacity from two lakh tons per annum to four lakh ton per annum.

Agarwal said the 2x15 MW power project is likely to be synchronised by March-end 2009. The automation plant will be state-of-art and a zero pollution unit, he said.

Adhunik Alloys and Power Ltd would also add 2x20 ton induction furnace along with billet caster and Ladder Redefining Furnace (LRF) for quality steel-making capacity.

The induction furnace is scheduled to be completed by February next, he said, but did not reveal the investment size.

source economictimes.com (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Energy/Power/Adhunik_Group_to_set_up_1000_MW_power_plant_in_Jharkhand/articleshow/3324350.cms)

^^more news



Adhunik Group to set up 1,000 MW power plant in Jharkhand



source economictimes.com (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Energy/Power/Adhunik_Group_to_set_up_1000_MW_power_plant_in_Jharkhand/articleshow/3324350.cms)

:guns1: You!!!! They are the same news..

No worries. I guess my source copied from your's.. :laugh:

oh damn, you're right.
cant believe 2 websites have the exact same wording in their articles. aah well...

Ispat gets mining lease for Jharkhand's 2.8 mt steel plant (http://in.news.yahoo.com/241/20080807/1264/tbs-ispat-gets-mining-lease-for-jharkhan.html)

The ministry of mines has approved Ispat Industries Ltd mining lease for iron ore and manganese ore in the west Singhbhum, Jharkhand.

Vinod Mittal-led Ispat Industries has bagged the mining lease (ML) for its proposed 2.8 mt steel plant in the state. The ML is for the 520 hectares in the Latua and Raika villages. The Jharkhand government had in February this year sought the Centre's approval for allocating a mining lease of 520 hectares of Latua mines, which has an estimated reserve of over 100 mt and iron content of 64 to 65%, to Ispat Industries.

The coal ministry had recently allocated the Behrabandh coking coal block in Madhya Pradesh to Ispat Industries on a sharing basis with Essar, Mukund Steel and Ind Synergy. Of the total 170 mt of the total reserves in the captive block, Ispat got 70 mt.

Jaiprakash Associates Ltd's 147.94 hectares limestone mining lease in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh has also got the ministry nod. Jaiprakash had till now a total mining lease of 470.94 sq km. with the two captive limestone mines in Naubasta Limestone mine and Bankuiyan Limestone mine situated. However, NMDC Ltd's & JSMDC Ltd's proposal for iron ore mining and Arcelor Mittal India Ltd's 1087.75 hectares prospecting license for iron and manganese ore mining is still under process.

An update to my previous post about Radisson Hotel coming up in the state (Previous Post: http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=20242686&postcount=8)


http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080811/images/11jha5star1.jpg
Sports bar & speciality restaurants to treat customers at Radisson Grand next year.....
Where would you hope to find sportspersons chilling out after a long day of hard play? If plans materialise, they probably would be spotted at the sports bar-cum-discotheque of the Radisson Grand coming up soon.

The state’s maiden five-star hotel is set to come up by mid-2009 as the construction work is going on at rapid pace at the posh Kadru Chowk area in the state capital. ...

Read the full here: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080811/jsp/jharkhand/story_9676552.jsp

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Courtesy TelegraphIndia.com: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080828/jsp/jharkhand/story_9753906.jsp
One-stop shop for Ranchi residents
- Retail chain launches hypermarket with 30,000 products under one roof ...
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More options await Ranchi residents who now have a hypermarket in their city to redefine one-stop-shopping. On Tuesday, Reliance Mart opened its 40,000sqft outlet on Kanke Road. The city had so far only one supermarket — the Big Bazar — on the Main Road. Ever since its opening, the store had been register- ing significant foot counts, though many of the visitors landed in just for window shopping.

While the customers here were still learning to evaluate options, they got even bigger outlet, a hypermarket, which has all the products of a supermarket and a department store.

The newly opened Reliance Mart boasts of having more than 30,000 products on its shelves. Besides, it can accommodate 80 cars and 150 two-wheelers in its parking at any given point of time.
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080828/images/28Ran-Relaince-3.jpg

Article courtesy EconomicTimes.Indiatimes.com :
Read the full article here: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Ranchi_villagers_now_walk_the_talk_for_Tatas/articleshow/3450304.cms

Close on the heels of Jharkhand's new chief minister Shibu Soren's open invitation to the Tatas to set up the Nano plant in the state, villagers of Mesra, Vikash and Kuju, about 15 km from Ranchi, have offered to give their land to the company.
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According to Ashok Kumar Mahato, another villager, industrialisation alone can help development in the area. "However, the companies should give us proper compensation and job security. . We also want free health and education facilities for our families. We would also like the companies to help enhance the technical skills of the youths by getting them trained at ITIs so that they are absorbed in a better position in the company. We would also like to be shareholders of the company," he said.

Full article: http://http://steelguru.com/news/index/2008/09/25/NjQyNTI%3D/JSW_to_start_construction_of_Jharkhand_steel_plant_in_early_2009.html

PTI reported that JSW Steel is likely to begin the construction of its proposed 10 million tonnes steel plant in Jharkhand by early 2009.

Mr RP Singh CEO of JSW Steel Jharkhand project said that “We have set early 2009 as the target for ground breaking and plan to bring the integrated steel plant by March 2012.”....
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JSW Steel had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Jharkhand government in November 2005 for setting up 10 million tonnes steel plant with an investment of over INR 35,000 crore

Movie buffs in the coal capital have reason to celebrate more this Puja. Besides hopping pandals and catching up with family and friends, they will now watch the latest blockbusters in the lap of luxury....A four-screen multiplex, inaugurated on the Saraidhela-Dhanbad national highway today, promised to give entertainment new dimensions.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081003/images/3jhamultiplex-5.jpg
Read the complete article on TelegraphIndia.com : http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081003/jsp/jharkhand/story_9921927.jsp

The Union government has sanctioned Rs 100 Crore to set up of a food processing park in Jharkhand. Out of the total land requirement for the project, that is 200 acre, Jharkhand government has already allocated 50 acres. The work on the project is likely to begin by February 2009. Three Kolkata and Mumbai-based companies have expressed a desire to invest Rs 200 Crore in the park. On completion, this park will give Indian agricultural products direct access to the international markets.

Source: http://www.hospitalitybizindia.com/detailNews.aspx?aid=2538&sid=1

Here is a glimpse of the new Jharkhand Secretariat Building in Ranchi, built at an estimated cost of Rs. 250 million and shall be dedicated to the state on the 8th Statehood day on November 16th. Once open, this will be one of the biggest public utility building in Ranchi that boasts of 13 express elevators, Public function theaters, multilevel parking and all glass cladding.

Picture courtesy: www.jagran.com

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By the end of November, bids for the fourth ultra mega power project (UMPP) at Tilaiaya in Jharkhand will be invited, according to the Union Minister for State for Power, Mr Jairam Ramesh.

Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Mr Ramesh said that of the three UMPPs, which have been awarded, the Mundra power plant, now under development by Tata Power, is at an advanced stage of implementation and has made progress and has ordered for equipment.

The other two plants at Sasan and Krishnapatnam, won by Reliance Power are at different stages. While the Sasan unit is in the process of finalising plans, the Krishnapatnam has gone a step ahead and has chosen Shanghai Electric for supply of equipment (Though he personally tried to convince Reliance to consider BHEL).

Asked if there are delays in execution of the plant due to difficulty in achieving financial closure due to current economic slowdown, Mr. Ramesh said “it is a fact that developers are finding finances hard to come by.” But felt that they would be able to close them.

On whether the current market conditions are likely to impact the bidding process for new projects, the Minister said “let us wait and see.”

Apart from these projects, UMPPs are being proposed at Orissa, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. In addition, the Power Ministry has received another proposal for an UMPP in Andhra Pradesh.

The Union Minister said that he would like more public enterprises to take part in large UMPPs. Referring to the need for greater participation by NTPC and BHEL, he said that he would like NTPC to secure a couple of UMPPs.

Referring to the initiatives on the nuclear power, he said that the Government is in the process of expanding the overall capacity from 4,000 MW now to 20,000 MW by 2020.

GENERAL ELECTRIC TO VISIT

There have been offers for participation in nuclear projects from French firm Areva for 1,600 MW reactor, Russia for more reactors as was the case with Koodamkulam and from General Electric and Westinghouse.

In fact, representatives from GE are likely to visit India and Andhra Pradesh early next month to discuss potential of nuclear projects, he said.

Source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/11/15/stories/2008111551760500.htm

IMRS Hospitality will spend around Rs 100 Crore to set up five boutique hotels in the eastern region. The projects have been lined up for West Bengal, Jharkhand and Orissa, with an investment of around Rs20-Rs 25 Crore each. The company has already started acquiring land at Rajarhat for the purpose.

IMRS Hospitality is also looking at a tie up with a European company, for which an MoU will be inked soon. The MoU is expected to provide technological assistance and will be an investor for the projects.

Source: http://www.travelbizmonitor.com/imrs-to-set-up-five-boutique-hotels-4026

The ministry of power has asked the Jharkhand government to expedite the land allotment process for NTPC’s North Karanpura super thermal power plant. NTPC had reported lag on the state government’s part in allotment of land to the 1,980-mw project and had requested the ministry to intervene. Although the Jharkhand government had earlier expressed its inability to hasten the process, it has now agreed to speed up the process of land allotment.

NTPC had reported delay in disbursement of payment for land compensation by the state government. The power utility has deposited Rs 74.63 crore with the government for disbursement among the land owners; however, the state has disbursed only Rs 42.5 crore till now. The project requires 2,303.6 acres of land of which NTPC is in possession of only 1,008.72 acres so far. NTPC wants the power ministry to push Jharkhand to fast-track the transfer of land, particularly a 313-acre stretch of government land lying within the envisaged plant area and will be required immediately after the award of the main plant package.

Source: http://www.projectsmonitor.com/ENERGY/jharkhand-to-expedite-land-process-for-karanpura-tpp

Courtesy: www.telegraphindia.com

Birsa Munda Airport (BMA) is all set for a makeover to include technological upgrades and modern facilities with civil aviation minister Praful Patel scheduled to lay the foundation stone for a new terminal building on Friday, 20th Feb. ......

Link to the article (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090217/jsp/jharkhand/story_10546980.jsp)

The blueprint hasn't been publicly published yet and I will try to post it as soon as gets released.


Crossposting from Futurue Aiprorts Thread:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=32474428&postcount=8
Render of Ranchi (BMA's) new Integrated Terminal
http://www.picamatic.com/show/2009/02/18/12/55/2241566_bigthumb.jpg (http://www.picamatic.com/view/2241566_Ranchi_Airport_New/)

Mega Sports Complex - Ranchi

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Meinhardt Singapore Pte Ltd has been appointed as the Project Management Consultant by the Government of the state of Jharkhand in India to provide comprehensive design, Bid Process Management and Construction Supervision services for a Mega Sports Complex at Ranchi. 227 acres of land have been earmarked for the Mega Sports Complex, which will host the 34th National Games in February 2007.

The sports complex comprises a main multi-functional 35,000 capacity athletics stadium with 8-lane Practice Track; 3 indoor stadiums, of 4000 capacity each, for Gymnastics & Judo, Badminton & Table Tennis and Volleyball & Basket Ball; and 4 outdoor stadiums with sport facilities featuring a Velodrome, a 2000-capacity Tennis Centre, a 2000-capacity Aquatic Centre; Kho-Kho & Kabaddi grounds and a Shooting range. The state-of-the-art complex also includes 2 hostel blocks, an Administrative Building and a 24m high water tower.

SAA Architects Pte Ltd and Arun Loomba & Associates are architects for the project.



http://www.34thnationalgamesjharkhand.in/ng/events/images/athletics_stadium.jpg

http://www.34thnationalgamesjharkhand.in/ng/events/images/aquatics_centre.jpg

http://www.34thnationalgamesjharkhand.in/ng/events/images/vellodrome.jpg

Source: here (http://www.34thnationalgamesjharkhand.in/ng/events/atheletics.htm)

Mega Sports Complex - Ranchi

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Source: here (http://www.34thnationalgamesjharkhand.in/ng/events/atheletics.htm)

India101 thanks for your posting, however this is a very dated information and Govt. of Jharkhand had cancelled Meinhardt's original contract earlier in 2008 itself. As per the current schedule, the games will be held sometime in May-Jun 09 and the Sports village as shown in the renders is almost 90% completed by a consortium of Nagarjun Constructions and Simplex Infra.

Mall + Hotel + Office Building - Jamshedpur, Jharkhand

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The mixed-use development in the centre of Jamshedpur – a modern industrial city and home of Tata Steel – will be the largest retail destination in this region located outside of Kolkata.

Benoy is currently engaged as planners and design architects of the overall scheme, which includes a four-level retail centre, a hotel and office bloc
The proposed scheme will create new public spaces for the city by incorporating a civic square and sunken gardens at its main entrances.

The development consists of more than 150,000m² of retail, 30,000m² of hotel and 30,000m² of office space

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Source: Projects in smaller cities thread.

Cross-posting my own post from Stadia and Sports Infrastructure thread
I am posting a pics of a couple of new stadiums that are being developed for the 2009 National Games in Ranchi. For a poor state like Jharkhand, these appear to be pretty much of international standards.

The Indoor Stadium (For Badminton/Basketball etc.)
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Hockey Stadium
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There is a whole bunch of stadia/sports ground being built in a cluster at the Khelgaon. Apparently, they are trying to host a few events from the Commonwealth games too.

Photo Courtesy - www.jagran.com

^^ Cool pics.

Good to see Ranchi getting some solid sports infrastructure.

Here is an article from www.telegraphindia.com about the current status of the Ranchi Airport (IXR) upgradation project:

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Photo courtesy: www.jagran.com
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Here is a view of another residential project coming up in Ranchi.
This is one of the few projects that has taken "good" cue from its bigger city counterparts...

The render looks cool (13-14 floors)^^^^

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source: jagran.com

^Thats becoming a really popular way of designing malls. There's one like that coming up in Chhattisgarh

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091109/images/09jhaMultiplex1.jpg
Ranchi, Nov. 8: The city will soon be mall-nourished.

The residents, who so far had to remain content with Eylex, will get another hangout zone by March 2010. JD Hi Street Mall opposite GEL Church Complex will be a one-stop destination for food, shopping and entertainment.

Spread over 18,000sqft area, the upcoming multiplex-cum-shopping destination is being constructed by a city-based firm, Jokhiram Durga Dutta.

The ground plus eight floor structure will have three-level basement area for parking of 100 cars, retail stores, food court, three-lane bowling alley and a 3-screen multiplex.

The sphere-shaped multiplex will seat 750 people together. The two small screens have a capacity of 150 each while another can seat a total of 450 people at a time.
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FULL ARTICLE : http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091109/jsp/jharkhand/story_11716760.jsp

It seems that d residents of jamshedpur have to wait further be4 they can get to walk into a world class mall in their own city.

Source: The Telegraph, Nov 9 ,2009

Aide’s mega mall feels Koda raid heat
KUMUD JENAMANI
Jamshedpur, Nov. 9: Construction work at the site of a multi-crore mall, reportedly owned by a close aide of former chief minister Madhu Koda, has come to a halt in Bistupur.

The reason behind suspension of work at Balaji Lifestyle Mall, being developed by a Mumbai-based realtor, was said to be the freezing of bank accounts of Koda and his associates following income tax and Enforcement Directorate raids. As a consequence, bookings for office and business space in the mall have also stopped.

Construction for the seven-storeyed mall, supposed to be a city landmark, began in July, 2009. The centrally air-conditioned mall was designed to host a shopping complex on three levels, complete with anchor stores. Equipped with latest fire fighting and safety features, the mall was to boast escalators and capsule lifts.

Now, after the IT raids on Koda, those keen on booking space at the mall are in a quandary.

“I have been meaning to get an office space ever since bookings started during Diwali. But for the past two days none of the numbers provided in advertisements aren’t responding. The realtor’s office is closed. I was informed that construction work for the project has come to a standstill,” said Anil Agrawal, a local businessman.

Income tax officials including director (investigation) Ujjawal Chaudhary had visited the construction site during their week-long stay in the city recently.

Officials of Jamshedpur Notified Area Committee (JNAC) confirmed that the mall’s building plan was submitted by Koda aide Vinod Sinha in 2008.

“The land was earlier owned by Ravi Inder Singh, the proprietor of Indian Steel and Wire Products (IS&WP). It was purchased by Sinha and a few other partners, including Bablu Ghosh, in 2008. After purchasing the land they tied up with Balaji Group,” said RKP Sinha, a senior official of JNAC.

According to him, the building plan of the mall, which is spread over 1.5 acres, was approved by JNAC earlier this year.

“Our sanitary inspectors informed us that work at the construction site has almost stopped,” he said.

In spite of repeated attempts, none of the officials of the Mumbai-based real estate company could be contacted.

A local contractor, who had been handling a part of the construction job, on condition of anonymity said: “The construction work was affected due to a funds crisis. The flow of funds stopped after Sinha’s accounts were seized by the IT department.”

He added that even he had not been paid for his work.


:badnews::badnews:

any body has any update about the SILVER cAge mall in jamshedpur???

A new swanky mall cum 3 screen multiplex coming up in the ranchi city with

12 escalators
Food Courts
Roof Top Dining
3 level parking
bowling alley


Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzRFqWP_xQ

http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz99/apoorv_69/Ranchi/Photo0218.jpg

http://i817.photobucket.com/albums/zz99/apoorv_69/Ranchi/Photo0217.jpg

A new swanky mall cum 3 screen multiplex coming up in the ranchi city with

12 escalators
Food Courts
Roof Top Dining
3 level parking
bowling alley


Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzRFqWP_xQ



Wow Apoorv ...Nice Update ....However how recent are the photos ...coz looking at the stage of completion , doesn't look like they would be able to complete this by March 2010 .... Do you have any info ....

Nice, a eight storeys. India seems to be going through a mall craze.

Wow Apoorv ...Nice Update ....However how recent are the photos ...coz looking at the stage of completion , doesn't look like they would be able to complete this by March 2010 .... Do you have any info ....

Photos are very recent, clicked dem myself on 8th jan. Ya even i dont think dat the march deadline is realistic. Lot of work still left both exterior n interior.:ohno:

Photos are very recent, clicked dem myself on 8th jan. Ya even i dont think dat the march deadline is realistic. Lot of work still left both exterior n interior.:ohno:

:bash: Well then it doesn't looks like its gonna finish off in the next 6 months also.... But the wait will be worth for Ranchiites... Your picture shows a banner of Glitz Cinemas hanging on the wall ...Is that what is coming up there too?

Ya glitz cinemas will be the multiplex

Ya glitz cinemas will be the multiplex
Wow thats awesome!!! Do you have any more details about it? ALso, I suppose that will be the first Multiplex in Ranchi ..right?

Ranchi Mall, 1,60,000 sq.ft

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(C)Agrawal Architects (http://agrawalarchitects.com/projects/orbit-mall.html#)

Shopping Mall by JaiShree Developers (http://jaishreedevelopers.com/about/shopping_mall.htm), Puran Vihar, Opposite Road No. - 5, Ashok Nagar, Ranchi.

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A part of Jaishree Developers upcoming Shopping Mall will be built on the area of 11/2 acres of land. This Shopping Complex will be situated near Puran Vihar, Opposite Road No. - 5, Ashok Nagar, one of the posh market in capital of Jharkhand. The Jaishree Shopping Complex will competes with the best Metropolitan Shopping Complex in the country in its Architectural Splendor, Aesthetic Details and Shopping Experience. It will provide comforts and variety to the customer. It will be one of the finest Mall in India in coming time. Our upcoming Shopping Mall will make shopping much more enjoyable and fun loving than before.

A perfect hangout destination in Ranchi. It will built in a square shaped fashion around an Amphitheatre with a center stage. Different Cultural functions will be organized here from time to time. Such as Fashion Shows, Live Band Performance and Performing Arts to promote the retail area. One can access the retail floors of the complex through lifts and escalators.

The construction of Jaishree Shopping Complex will be Ground + 6 floors. The 2nd, 3rd & 4th floors of the Complex will be for commercial purpose, and above it the Corporate Office, Multinational Office, Institutions etc will be located and that all will be accessible through elevators.

The basement car parking area can accommodate 200 cars (approx) while another 150 Cars (approx) can park front side of the Complex.

There will be Water Cascades and Fountain all around the Corridors, Passage, Lobbies of the complex are laid with granite and marble combination flooring easy accessibility, environment - friendly design and ample infra-structural facilities will make Jaishree Developers the best Shopping Complex in all around Ranchi.

The surrounding area of the Mall will be beautifully landscaped with plants and fountains. The Mall offer a climate controlled environment which creates a comfortable setting for shopping. Modern technology and effective planning has rendered Shopping Spaces airy, light and easy navigate. Everything is designed to pamper the buyer with quality as well as quantity.

It will complete with an Amphitheatre, a Shopping Complex, Basement Parking and best of the Brands. This will be one place where the entire family can have a shopping spree and enjoy.

The major attraction of the Mall will be a State of the art Multiplex.



Looks like Ranchi's gonna be getting alot of Multiplexs

Green City by JaiShree, Argora, Ranchi

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Sail City, Ashok Nagar
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Aerial View:
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Entrance:
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Blocks:
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Kashish Mall:
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Wow ..If these projects do come to reality, Ranchi will surely get a competitive position amongst other Tier-II/III cities ... As far as I know, The Sail city is already rising above ground level (Foundation work is complete)^^^^ .. Howere the one "Ranchi Mall" is still very much in conception phase and we will have to wait a bit to see if it make through to the next phase, unlike many other such projects.:bash:

Wow thats awesome!!! Do you have any more details about it? ALso, I suppose that will be the first Multiplex in Ranchi ..right?

No we already have eyelex :)

No we already have eyelex :)
Awesome!!! Also, what is the status of the Old Uphaar theater. I read that that too was being rebuilt as a 3 screen one?

Awesome!!! Also, what is the status of the Old Uphaar theater. I read that that too was being rebuilt as a 3 screen one?

Ya it is being rebuilt into a multiplex. Heard it was almost complete...will try to click some pics and post them if i happen to go to dat part of the city.

Ranchi Mall, 1,60,000 sq.ft

http://i46.tinypic.com/osu5mp.jpg
(C)Agrawal Architects (http://agrawalarchitects.com/projects/orbit-mall.html#)

hey man any idea about the location of the ranchi mall?

Ya it is being rebuilt into a multiplex. Heard it was almost complete...will try to click some pics and post them if i happen to go to dat part of the city.

Woow ..Thats a really nice news. Will eagerly wait for your pics ....:banana:

Is Uphar the one on Ratu road?

Centre Point Mall, Dhanbad

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Source (http://dhanbad.olx.in/centre-point-mall-for-all-unwrapping-a-smart-retail-mall-in-dhanbad-jharkhand-iid-52356727)

Is Uphar the one on Ratu road?

Yeah!! you are right. In its nicer days, it used to be one of the good theaters of the state.

Yeah!! you are right. In its nicer days, it used to be one of the good theaters of the state.

Yay thanks! I remember watching k3g there :D And its being converted to a multiplex ( I read someone saying above), so it will be back to its glory! :]

Shrachi Greens, Jamshedpur

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/6356/tataq.jpg (http://img33.imageshack.us/i/tataq.jpg/)

Source:
http://www.shrachi.com/bengalshrachi/residential/shrachi_greens/index.htm

Tata Steel net up, forms JV with Nippon Steel

BS Reporter / Mumbai January 29, 2010, 0:36 IST

Tata Steel said its net profit on a standalone basis for the quarter ended December 31 more than doubled to Rs 1,190 crore against Rs 466 crore a year ago. The company’s profit grew on the back of higher demand for steel from automakers and builders. Sales for the company grew by 33 per cent to Rs 6,307 crore in the period.

The company also said it had formed a joint venture (JV) with Japan’s largest steel producer, Nippon Steel, to set up an automobile steel venture in India. Tata Steel will have 51 per cent stake in the JV, which will invest about Rs 1,800 crore to set up a plant in the Indian company’s Jamshedpur complex.

The JV will set up a continuous annealing (the process of heating a metal and letting it cool slowly to harden it) and processing line, with a capacity of 6,00,000 tonnes. Nippon Steel will transfer its technology for producing high-grade cold rolled sheet for automotive application.

“Both companies will continuously discuss further collaboration in other fields, such as automotive CGL or up-stream processes ,” said Tata Steel in a statement. The companies will target the conclusion of the JV deal by June 2010 and start operations before March 2013.

Steel consumption in India grew 7.7 per cent in the first nine months of the current financial year, as demand from the car and construction companies grew along with the government’s spending on road and infrastructure.

The company’s sales volume in the quarter grew 49 per cent to 1.6 million tonnes. The stock of the company was up 4.8 per cent to Rs 585.5 a share on the Bombay Stock Exchange on Thursday following the announcement of the result and the JV. Sensex, the benchmark index of the exchange, was up by 0.1 per cent to 16,306.8 on the day.

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/tata-steel-net-up-forms-jvnippon-steel/383975/

Tata Steel to invest Rs 5,700 crore in expansion projects

Abhineet Kumar / Mumbai January 30, 2010, 0:33 IST

Tata Steel, India’s largest steel producer, will spend Rs 5,700 crore on expansion projects in the next financial year. Around 70 per cent of the money (Rs 3,700 crore) will be earmarked for domestic expansion.

Tata Steel plans to expand capacity to 10 million tonnes at Jamshedpur by August 2011 from 6.8 million tonnes.

To support this expansion, the company is also raising annual iron ore production 55 per cent to 17 million tonnes in India over the next two years. The expansion is expected to cost Rs 1,100 crore. The move is aimed at insulating its Jamshedpur plant from fluctuating raw material prices.

In its overseas projects, the company plans to develop iron ore and coal mines in Canada and Mozambique through two joint ventures. It also plans to develop a mini blast furnace under its Thailand subsidiary.

To finance these plans, the company is planning a rights issue, though some of the money raised will also go towards repaying part of its debt. The company and its European subsidiary had a total debt of Rs 26,946 crore at the end of March 31 this year giving the company a debt equity ratio of 1.78.

Most of the debt is the result of the company’s acquisition of the Anglo Dutch steel maker Corus in early 2007 for about $13 billion. The high debt raised the company’s finance charges 36 per cent on a standalone basis. The company reported finance charges of Rs 1,150 crore for the first nine months of the current financial year (the consolidated number of the company for the period is not available).

“If there are opportunities to put more equity capital in our growth projects that have very significant returns, we will look at doing so at the appropriate time,” said Koushik Chatterjee, group chief financial officer of the company told analysts today. “That will ease some amount of internal cash towards the repayment,” he added.

The company has prepaid Rs 6,600 crore of debt in the current financial year. But it has taken a fresh loan of a similar amount.

The company plans to repay Rs 1,600 crore to Rs 1,800 crore of debt in the current quarter through internal accruals.

BS (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/tata-steel-to-invest-rs-5700-crore-in-expansion-projects/384092/)

Want to join IIM? Wait till Sunday to know if you can


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Suchana Bhavan, the temporary address of IIM, Ranchi

Ranchi, Feb. 23: Wannabe IIM graduates keep an eye on Sunday’s newspaper.

IIM Calcutta — the mentor institute for the elite business cradle in Ranchi — will advertise admission rules for 2009 CAT examinees. IIM Ranchi has 60 seats on offer.

B.B. Chakravorty, a faculty member of IIM Calcutta who holds additional charge as convener, IIM Ranchi, was here today to finalise things before the advertisement appears for a July session.

“We are chalking out details of the session. We have a lot to do in very less time,” the professor said.
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Full Article : TelegraphIndia.com (http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100224/jsp/jharkhand/story_12144623.jsp)

Jharkhand plans two new agriculture colleges

Ranchi: Jharkhand will soon have two new agricultural colleges—one at Godda and another at Palamu. Ironically, the colleges have been planned by the state government in the face of declining interest of the students to join the courses in agriculture at the Ranchi Agriculture College in the reputed Birsa Agriculture University (BAU) campus at Kanke.

The state government, in its budget for 2010-11, has identified nearly Rs 90 crore for acquisition of land and development of college infrastructure at Godda and Palamu. While the process of acquiring land in Palamu is on, construction of building for the college in Godda is in full swing to launch the academic session from the next year.

Many academicians, including those of the BAU, term the huge expenditure on the proposed colleges as a wasteful exercise.

“ Intake capacity in BSc (Agriculture) course in the existing Ranchi Agriculture College has now dwindled to 50 from sanctioned strength of 100, including 15 per cent of the total number of seats reserved exclusively for the students selected by Indian Council of Agriculture Research through the latter’s own method,” they argued.

“With the number of student aspiring for courses in the BSc (Agriculture) thinning by the year, the RAC is now finding it tough to fill up 50 per cent of its seats. This is the situation for last several years.

In forestry faculty too, the occupancy is only 25 per cent. However, in veterinary stream, where the number of student sufficient, is the saving grace,” sources said.

To buttress their point, they said when a college located in the state capital was facing such scarcity of students then one could well imagine the scenario at the upcoming colleges at Daltonganj and Godda.

Former BAU students paint even gloomier picture of the prospect of the upcoming colleges. Pradeep Hembrom of Jharkhand Agriculture Berojgar Sangh said more than 2000 students of Agriculture and Forestry faculties of BAU were still struggling for job.

BAU Vice Chancellor NN Singh, however, finds fault in the state government’s policy for declining interest of students towards agriculture stream.

“Despite repeated assurances by the government to put agriculture on high priority list, it failed to create job opportunities for the qualified agricultural scientists,” he said.

Former Agriculture Dean VC Srivastava attributed the poor job opportunities in the state for the decline in students’ interest towards this course. There has been no appointment of agriculture graduates in the state for last 20 years.

http://www.igovernment.in/site/jharkhand-plans-two-new-agriculture-colleges-37178

National Law University opened in Jharkhand

Ranchi: Jharkhand High Court Chief Justice Gyan Sudha Misra on Monday inaugurated the long-awaited National University of Study and Research in Law, also known as National Law University in the Birla Institute of Technology (Mesra) campus here.
BIT Mesra had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the state government in 2006 to this effect. Justice Mishra will also be the first Chancellor of the university.

The academic session of the varsity for the five-year integrated course in Law is expected to start from July. To begin with, it will have 150 seats in each session. Those qualified the higher secondary exams can opt for the integrated degree in law from the university.

Students will be selected on the basis of a combined legal aptitude test—a common entry route for the 11 other national-level law universities. Fifty per cent seats in the newly created Law University will be reserved for local students.

Conceived by the first Chief Justice of Jharkhand High Court VP Gupta way back in 2000, the university got all stops pulled recently when the State Assembly passed a related Act in March this year and the Rajbhawan gave its nod for its opening. A core committee has been set up under the chairmanship of Justice NN Tiwari of the Jharkhand High Court to regulate functioning of the varsity and also completing other pre-requisites to start its operation.

As per the MoU, the state government has arranged a corpus fund of Rs 50 crore for the varsity to ensure availability of its basic infrastructure, which also included appointment of the Vice-Chancellor and the Officer on Special Duty. They will be tasked to recruit faculty members.

The BIT (Mesra) management has offered a portion of the building with 72 rooms to the Law University for conducting the classes. Hostel facility for the stay of 60 students has also been made available in the BIT (Mesra) premises.

It may be recalled that the efforts to set up the university had to cross over a lot of legal hurdles and bureaucratic wrangles to finally become operational. Some objections were also raised from the Rajbhawan as well.

Source said the Rajbhawan was not willing to let the post of the Chancellor go to the Jharkhand Chief Justice and wanted to retain it for the State Governor. However, the issue was later sorted out

http://www.igovernment.in/site/national-law-university-opened-jharkhand-37446

Ranchi, May 13: The state road construction department has set the ball rolling for three flyovers to be built on the most important thoroughfares of the state capital which at present remain choked with heavy traffic. ..
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The flyovers have been proposed at Albert Ekka Chowk, Sujata Chowk and Lalpur Chowk — where traffic snarls are a regular phenomenon. ...

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SAIL mulls steel project in Jharkhand
Monday, 17 May, 2010

SAIL is likely to set up a steel project in Jharkhand at an estimated cost of Rs 60,000 crore.

The proposed 12 million tpa plant is expected to come up on the space belonging to a closed fertiliser mill in Sindri, Dhanbad district. SAIL is mulling to set up the project in two phases.

The company has applied to the Union Ministry of Chemical and Fertilisers for the plant. As per the proposal, the company is also planning to set up a 1.15 million tonne coal or gas based urea plant at the site. The Sindri fertiliser mill had been lying shut since March 2002.

Governor reviews development work in Jharkhand
Jharkhand was placed under president's rule two days after Shibu Soren stepped down as chief minister
Published on 06/03/2010 - 12:55:19 PM Ranchi: A day after president's rule was imposed in Jharkhand, Governor M O H Farook Wednesday reviewed development work in the state and directed officials to ensure implementation of central schemes.

Farook went to the state secretariat and held a meeting with Chief Secretary A K Singh and other department secretaries, an official press release said.

"The governor directed the officials to expedite the work for the welfare of the people of the state. Farook also categorically told officials that no slackness will be tolerated and asked them to ensure implementation of central schemes," the release said.

Jharkhand was placed under president's rule two days after Shibu Soren stepped down as chief minister and none of the three major political parties in the state showed willingness to form an alternate government.
http://www.igovernment.in/site/governor-reviews-development-work-jharkhand-37705

BHEL, L&T line up to bag Jindal Power contracts

NEW DELHI: State-run power equipments giant BHEL, engineering major Larsen & Toubro, and Russian firm Power Machines, among others have evinced
interest in supplying to Jindal Power's two thermal plants in Jharkhand.

Jindal Power, a subsidiary of Jindal Steel and Power, is executing two supercritical power projects of 1,320mw at Dumka and 660mw at Godda in Jharkhand by 2014. Supercritical power projects are environment-friendly and energy-efficient.

The company invited bids for the supply of boilers, turbines and generator package for these projects and received a positive response from various national and international suppliers.

"Response has been good, BHEL, Larsen & Toubro, Power Machines, Gammon India, Thermax etc have participated (submitted their bids) in the tender," at least two sources close to the development said.

Meanwhile, the company is also keen on setting up imported coal-based power plants and is looking for opportunities to expand its power capacity.

"Jindal Power is exploring the possibility of setting up port-based power projects by using imported coal," sources said adding the company also needs to acquire coal properties for these projects. the company is planning to buy coal blocks abroad to secure fuel supplies for its projects.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/energy/power/BHEL-LT-line-up-to-bag-Jindal-Power-contracts/articleshow/6008308.cms

An interesting article:
Courtesy : Economic Times
Article Link: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/A-Naxal-hot-bed-slowly-turns-development-model-in-Jharkhand/articleshow/6026323.cms


First few paragraphs:

RANCHI: If you drive down the picturesque 40-km stretch between Ranchi and Patratu, be prepared for a number of diversions. Work on a four-lane
portion of the road is on to facilitate movement of heavy vehicles. A first-timer from a metro wouldn’t perhaps be able to make much of it, but for locals it’s a great change, a harbinger of hope.

Flanked by low hills and covered with forests of sal, sakhuwa and bamboo on both sides, the road leads towards Patratu, a town nestling inside a natural green valley where Jindal Steel & Power Limited (JSPL) has commissioned a wire rod mill last month, inside the premises of the now-defunct Bihar Alloy Steels Limited (BASL).

It is the first new industrial unit to come up in Jharkhand since the state came into being in 2000. Inside the premises, there’s a fresh coat of white paint on the walls of the buildings, main office, guesthouse and employees’ housing colony.

That whiteness is symbolic of the gradual erasing of the Red Terror. The 40-km stretch has been known as the ‘risky zone’ in recent times. An area nobody dared to tread after after 6 pm, due to Maoists. But with the JSPL plant commencing production, traffic towards Patratu has gone up significantly . The fear factor is ebbing and things are beginning to return to normal.

JSPL is setting up an integrated steel plant of six million tonne per annum (mtpa) and a 1,000 mw captive power plant at Balkudra in Patratu at an investment of Rs 15,000 crore. The first unit, a 0.6 mtpa wire rod mill, became operational in April. In the first phase, a 3 mtpa steel plant is due to be commissioned by June 2012. Interestingly, the company is also setting up another steel plant of 5 mtpa at Asanboni, near Jamshedpur.

The region has the presence of players like Tata Steel, Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC) and Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL), but their units were set up long time ago. Since 2000, 71 companies including ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel and Essar Steel have signed MoUs with the state government for investments worth Rs 3,00,000 crore in the steel sector. But nothing much has happened largely due to land hurdles, procedural delays, government uncertainties and the Maoist menace. Only 15 small sponge iron plants have come up at an aggregate investment of Rs 2,275 crore.

JSPL’s entry into Patratu has therefore , changed the landscape and generated hopes in this little sleepy town, which only has an ailing Patratu Thermal Power Station (PTPS) and a small field office of Central Coalfields Limited.

source-http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100611/jsp/business/story_12553398.jsp

Bokaro, June 10: ArcelorMittal Steel has broken the logjam over land acquisition that had been holding up plans for its 12-million-tonne steel plant in Jharkhand.

Top ArcelorMittal officials have reached an understanding with the villagers of Kasmar and Petarwar — an area with a strong Maoist presence — for the acquisition of 2,500 acres that is expected to cap protests over land pricing and assure jobs for the displaced people. The project requires 2,900 acres, and the remaining 400 acres will come from the government.

The world’s No. 1 steel maker has proposed to invest Rs 45,000 crore in the project, which was shifted from Torpa-Kolebira region straddling Khunti and Gumla districts to Petarwar-Kasmar in Bokaro district.

The acquisition of land in the first phase will start from June 14. Distribution of the forms for land sale, to be registered with the local court, started today.

The form will contain details of the land and information about the members of the displaced family, which will be verified from government records, a senior official of ArcelorMittal told The Telegraph.

“Though the understanding with the villagers has been done but the agreement has still not been inked and will follow soon. Officials of the district administration will also be taken into confidence,” said another official.

A phalanx of ArcelorMittal officials, led by general manager P. S. Prasad, had arrived at the plant site to discuss the land sale.

Prasad told the villagers that the company had agreed to pay Rs 5 lakh per acre besides a pension of Rs 60,000 each year to every family for a maximum of three years. The company, which expects to start production in 36 months, will look to provide jobs.

“A job will be given to one member of each family. A married couple will be treated as a nucleus family. For example, if a father has four married sons in a family and the family has given its land, then it will be entitled to five jobs,” said a villager.

Villagers not interested in a job because of personal reasons will be given Rs 5,000 per month for the next 30 years.

The company has assured that 75 jobs in the steel plant for fourth grade employees will be reserved for the locals.

One can move higher up the rank if one has the required qualification as priority will be given to the locals.

In addition, the company plans to take up a number of community development initiatives such as better roads, drinking water, power, health facilities, training centres for the unemployed and the promotion of cottage industries for the weaker sections, including widows.

Kamleshwar Narain Singh, the block development officer of Petarwar and Kasmar, said he was not brought into confidence for the land deal, which fell under his jurisdiction.

Bokaro deputy commissioner Satyendra Singh, however, said an ArcelorMittal official had informed him about the exercise.

Hope this would pave the way for the project.

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The indoor cricket stadium in Ranchi. (Manik Bose)

Article Courtesy: TelegraphIndia.com

The state’s indoor cricket practice stadium will be unveiled this Sunday in the presence of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Shashank Manohar and secretary N. Srinivasan.

Governor M.O.H. Farook will do the honours.

The facility, arguably the only of its kind in the eastern zone, is being built by Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) and is currently receiving finishing touches.

It has come up on a 80m by 50m plot adjacent to the main cricket stadium under construction on HEC premises. The stadium is part of the Cricket Academy building that lies besides the main stadium, which, too, is also coming up at a rapid pace.

Article Link : http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100702/jsp/jharkhand/story_12637202.jsp

any news guys on the mittal`s steel plant

any news guys on the mittal`s steel plant

The last I heard was that they had changed their location to somewhere in Central Jharkhand (Bokaro Area) and were scouting for land rights.

Here is the story: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/indl-goods-/-svs/steel/ArcelorMittal-may-start-work-on-India-projects-in-2011/articleshow/6231860.cms

This is a good news for Jharkhand, which still lacks in good Medical Service and Hospitals. Opening up of such facilities will help locals save money and critical life-saving time.

Article CC: http://www.mydigitalfc.com/news/yashoda-medicare-set-30-hospitals-004



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Img: Proposed Ranchi Center

Betting on the huge demand for healthcare services, Bangalore-based Yashoda Medicare and Research Centre plans to open 30 hospitals in India in the next seven to eight years. First up will be multi-specialty hospitals in Bangalore, set to open in September this year and in Ranchi in April 2011.

The two hospitals will be set up at an investment of around Rs 150 crore, according to Amit Kumar Keshri, managing director of Yashoda Medicare. Tariffs are expected to be 10-15 per cent less than in other hospitals in the private sector.

Yashoda Medicare, which is funded by individual investors in India and abroad and SBI, expects FDI inflows after the hospitals in Bangalore and Ranchi are operational. It is close to completing a €15 million acquisition of a multi-specialty hospital in Frankfurt.

S Ravi, vice-chairman of Yashoda Medicare, said, “Besides focusing on opening hospitals in tier II and tier III cities, we will have a hub-and-spoke model of family clinics, and a chain of diagnostic centres.

you are doing a very good job vishal keep it up :cheers:

you are doing a very good job vishal keep it up :cheers:
Thx bro...:cheers:

Coal India begins mother of all rehabilitation plans

Even as corporate India struggles to find a solution to relief and rehabilitation in issues related to land acquisition, the government-owned Coal India Ltd has begun a massive plan to rehabilitate 80,000 families in Jharia in Jharkhand's Dhanbad district to secure around 13 billion tonnes of high grade coal lying beneath the town.

more@http://www.hindustantimes.com/Coal-India-begins-mother-of-all-rehabilitation-plans/Article1-594391.aspx

:cheers:

NTPC board objects; new site for Jharkhand plant delayed

Objections raised by the NTPC board means a resolution to the dispute over shifting of the site of its proposed 1980 mw power plant in Jharkhand’s North Karanpura area will take another two to three months.

The ministries of coal and power had to take a decision on the new project site by the end of August.

The project was stalled after the ministry of coal found that the proposed plant in Chhapra district was on a coal-bearing area with reserves of over six billion tonnes.

“We are not ready to shift the site of our proposed power plant,” an NTPC official told DNA. A coal ministry official confirmed NTPC is objecting to the proposed new sites for the power plant.

“We want a win-win situation for both NTPC and Coal India Ltd. If NTPC builds a power plant over that site, CIL will lose huge coal reserves. We hope the issue would be resolved in the coming months”, said a coal ministry official.

The project, with an estimated investment of more than Rs8,000 crore spread over 2,500 acres was planned nine years ago but it could not take off due to the carving out of Jharkhand from Bihar.

Following this, a Rs1,500 crore debt committed to the project by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation was nixed.

In 2008, the ministry of coal objected to the project after Coal India Ltd said the project would block excavation of six billion tonnes of coal reserves that were found under the project site.

In February, an inter-ministerial meeting between the ministries of coal and power, with representations from NTPC and Coal India, had proposed alternate sites for the power project.

While NTPC had asked for sometime to consider the proposal of shifting its power plant to the new site, off late the company board has taken a tough stance against the proposal. The North Karanpura coalfield is spread over 1,230 square km and has proven reserves of 14 billion tonne.

http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_ntpc-board-objects-new-site-for-jharkhand-plant-delayed_1431146

Monnet Ispat acquires 850 acres for Jharkhand steel plant

RANCHI: Monnet Ispat & Energy, a Delhi-based company with interests in steel and power, has so far acquired around 850 acres in Jharkhand where it is building a 2.5-million-tonne steel plant. It needs about 2,000 acres for the project.

Monnet Ispat will invest over Rs 14,000 crore for the project and is also building a 280-mw power plant.
Bokaro deputy commissioner Nitin Madan Kulkarni told ET that the villagers agreed to give their land for Rs 4,050 per decimal ( A decimal is one-hundredth of an acre).

Another round of meeting is expected to be held soon to finalise the deal. The villagers also sought to know other benefits in terms of employment, health, education and infrastructure.

The project has seen steady progress, unlike the situation in Orissa and West Bengal, where slow land acquisition process has delayed the projects of Posco. Monnet Ispat said it has got the consent of villagers of Kumrhi under Chas block, in Bokaro district.

Mr Kulkarni said the administration has 220 acres. “Once we get the proposal from the company, we will expedite the process for its transfer. We will also provide assistance to the company in other areas,” he said. Besides, 50 acres of forest land is also available, he said. The company also needs 450 acres from Dumrada village, under Chandankiyari block. The company officials distributed agreement forms and hope to finalise the deal soon.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/indl-goods-/-svs/steel/Monnet-Ispat-acquires-850-acres-for-Jharkhand-steel-plant/articleshow/6569140.cms


India NTPC head:aims to produce coal from mine in 2011/12

NEW DELHI, Sept 17 (Reuters) - India's top power utility NTPC Ltd (NTPC.BO: Quote) aims to produce coal from its captive mine in Jharkhand in the next financial year, its chairman said.

"We have just got the environment clearance and we hope to produce coal from Pakri Barwadhi (in Jharkhand) in 2011/12," Arup Roy Choudhury told reporters on Friday.

NTPC has exclusive exploration rights in five mines in India and joint rights with Coal India Limited in two others in Jharkhand, in eastern India.

NTPC aims to lock-in fuel supplies to feed its rising generation capacity, currently at 32.2 gigawatts and expects it to rise to 75 GW by 2017.

India aims to set up a 500 billion rupee ($10.74 billion) debt fund to facilitate development of new power projects to reduce blackouts in Asia's second-fastest growing economy.

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFDEL00342720100917

Source: http://www.igovernment.in/site/ranchi-airport-braces-international-tag-38437


The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has approved a Rs 138 crore revamp plan to upgrade the airport

Ranchi: Ranchi-based Birsa Munda airport will soon be added to the list of international airports. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has approved a Rs 138 crore revamp plan to upgrade the airport, which includes building of an international terminal.

The upgradation plan also envisages renovation of the domestic terminal, development of three additional apron areas, construction of a state-of-the-art new terminal building and extension of car parking facility for over 600 cars at a time.

Ranchi airport Commercial Manager SK Sharan said that the project to revamp facilities at Birsa Munda airport had been approved by the AAI in keeping with the increasing number of fliers for both domestic and international destinations from Ranchi.

Citing a recent survey conducted by the local airport officials on the basis of which the AAI sanctioned the overhauling plan, Sharan said it revealed that 72 out of 100, who boarded the flight from Ranchi, were frequent fliers. Fifty per cent of the travellers flew abroad for travel and tourism, 29 per cent for business, 22 per cent for official work and eight per cent for education.

The report suggested that an international flight from Ranchi to Singapore via Hong Kong or Bangkok would be the most commercially successful route. Officials said that international flight from Ranchi via Delhi or Kolkata could get impressive passengers on board.

About the renovation work, which was undertaken recently, a senior officer of Birsa Munda airport said that new terminal buildings and three additional aprons would be ready by the next year.
Presently, the airport has the parking facility of only two aircraft at a time. However, the new aprons would allow parking of five aircrafts.

It may be recalled that the State government had sent a request to the Ministry of Civil Aviation some four years ago to develop Birsa Munda airport as international one particularly in view of huge investment plans proposed by various Indian and multinational companies.

Pune Leads Tier II Cities In Job Creation
Among Tier III cities, Ranchi leads the pack followed by Mangalore and Mysore

Pune has emerged as the lead employment provider among tier II cities in the first quarter of fiscal 2010-11 (between April and June 11th) with a share of 19.5 per cent followed by Lucknow and Pondicherry with 14.3 per cent and 10.5 per cent, respectively, of the total jobs tracked by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham).

In a Study on `New Employment Centre in Tier II & Tier III Cities’, brought out by Assocham, it is also highlighted that Pune’s top five employment generating sectors comprised IT, ITeS, banking, education and automobile during April to June 2011.

The top five sectors in Lucknow which have created vast employment opportunities in the period include Education, Banking, FMCG, Insurance and ITeS. In case of Pondicherry, these are Aviation, Banking, Energy, FMCG and Hospitality, further stated the ASSOCHAM Study.

Releasing the study, the Assocham Secretary General, D. S. Rawat said: “Among tier III cities, Ranchi has emerged as the top employment provider with a share of 16.8 per cent. The cities of Mangalore and Mysore were ranked second and third constituting 12.6 per cent and 11.08 per cent of the total vacancies offered”.

In Ranchi, the top five sectors which have created maximum job prospects include energy, construction, metals, electronics and telecom. In case of Mangalore, the top 5 sectors are engineering, energy, banking, insurance, FMCG and in Mysore automobiles, insurance, pharma, manufacturing and education have provided highest employment opportunities.
http://businessworld.in/bw/2010_09_30_Pune_Leads_Tier_II_Cities_In_Job_Creation.html

ArcelorMittal splits Jharkhand plant

Hopes to complete land acquisition in first few months of 2011.

As a part of its revised plan to focus on smaller plants, ArcelorMittal has split its proposed 12 million tonne per annum (mtpa) steel plant in Jharkhand into two. The world’s largest steelmaker has decided to set up a 6-mtpa plant at Petarwar in Bokaro district. The company will look for a separate location in Jharkhand itself for the remaining capacity.

"As per the revised strategy, we want to start production as soon as possible; therefore, we are looking at developing smaller steel plants," the company’s India spokesperson told Business Standard.

The company has started acquiring 2,500 acres of land in Petarwar for its plant. It hopes to acquire 1,000 acres by this December and the rest by the first few months of 2011. The company, according to its original memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the state government, had asked for 11,000 acres of land for its 12-mtpa plant.

It said the 6-mtpa plant would be built in two phases of 3 mtpa each. "The land acquisition has already begun and we are targeting to complete the process by early 2011. The plant construction should start by mid-2011. The steel production at the site from the first phase of 3-mtpa is expected to commence in 2013."

Earlier this week, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer L N Mittal told the Financial Times in Tokyo that: "My plan is now to have two to four sites rather than concentrate everything on large plants."

Land acquisition for such a mega plant is time-consuming, as the company is in talks with land owners directly without any government intervention. The company maintains that once land is acquired, the plant construction will begin in full swing, as the company is flush with funds. Moreover, it was delay in acquiring the 11,000 acres in one go that prompted the steelmaker to alter its strategy and go for smaller modules.

The spokesperson said the state government itself advised the company to look at the land in Petarwar as there was enough water to set up at least a 3 mtpa plant. "Our feasibility report shows a larger plant can be set up at the site and, therefore, we have started to acquire 2,500 acres of land in the region. Bokaro site will see a 6-mtpa plant from ArcelorMittal," the spokesperson said.

The company maintains that its MoU with the state government for the 12-mtpa plant still remains in terms of capacity. The steelmaker said it would start looking for a second location for the remaining 6-mtpa capacity in due course of time. "The feasibility study is continuously updated and if it shows that this plant at Bokaro can be scaled further up with all the necessary requirements like water, etc, fulfilled, we might increase the plant size."

The company, however, hasn’t planned smaller steel mills in Orissa so far. It said, "Since in Orissa, we have completed (discussions ) eight out of the 15 gram sabhas we were supposed to, there is no plan at the moment to split the 12 mtpa production into smaller plants."

The steelmaker is looking to set up another 6 mtpa plant in the Bellary district of Karnataka.

source (http://sify.com/finance/arcelormittal-splits-jharkhand-plant-news-equity-kkojvxddhbb.html)

Tata Steel’s Rs. 15k cr expansion plan to be completed in FY11

New Delhi: Tata Steel on Monday said its programme to ramp up the production capacity of its domestic facility at Jamshedpur by around 47% to 10 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) is on track and will be completed by March 2011.

The global steel major plans to enhance production capacity from 6.8 MTPA to 10 MTPA by March 2011, with an investment of Rs15,000 crore.

“We are very much in line with our expansion programme which will be completed by FY11. One part will come up we are in the process,” Tata Steel vice-president (Raw Materials Division) P. Sengupta told PTI on the sidelines of a seminar here.

“We will be adding three million tonnes so total will go to 10 million tonnes. It is a continuous expansion process, a substantial money has already been put in,” he said.

The company, in June this year, has said that its expansion project has received clearance from the ministry of forest and environment.

As part of the expansion programme, the company will ramp up its production capacity of flat steel items -- mainly consumed by automobile and consumer durables industries--to 5.83 million tonne from the current 3.04 million tonne.

The expansion is part of the steel major’s plans to take its annual capacity to 16 million tonne by 2014 at an investment of around Rs40,000 crore. The projects will be funded by a mix of debt and internal accruals.

Earlier, its managing director H.M. Nerurkar said the company was active in a number of social initiatives including handpicking the sports talents which resulted in India bagging a number of medals in archery in the recently concluded Commonwealth Games here.

source (http://www.livemint.com/2010/10/18183651/Tata-Steel8217s-Rs-15k-cr-e.html?h=B)

XL Mall, Ranchi - designed by Sanjay Puri

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Is it completed or not ? Plz reply

regards,

Lakshmi Mittal to kick off India plans with Jharkhand plant

ArcelorMittal, the world’s biggest steel manufacturer, may finally get to start construction of its first steel plant in the country early next fiscal.

The company hopes to complete land acquisition for the plant in Jharkhand by the end of this fiscal.

“We are hoping that by December-end we will have up to 1,000 acres and by the end of the first quarter of the next calendar year, the entire 2,500 acres should be in possession, immediately after which construction can begin,” said a company spokesperson.

ArcelorMittal had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Jharkhand government in 2005 to set up a 12 million tones per annum (mtpa) steel plant in the state, along with a 750 megawatt (mw) power plant.

The total investment planned for the project was over Rs50,000 crore.

But since then, the plant was languishing in papers as the company waited to get allocation of water, mines for iron ore and coal and approvals from the ministry of environment and forests. Questions were also raised on the company’s commitment to see the plan through.

The company recently changed its plan to build a 12 mtpa plant at a single location and decided to build two plants in the state with a capacity of 6 mtpa each.

“We still adhere to the MoU with the state and will build 12 mtpa in two phases. Just that the two phases might be at different locations,” the spokesperson said, adding that each phase will in turn have two stages of 3 mtpa each.

“We have allocation of coal and mining and prospecting licence for iron ore in the Singhbhum district and most of the clearances from the ministry of environment and forest are in place,” the spokesperson said.

source (http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_lakshmi-mittal-to-kick-off-india-plans-with-jharkhand-plant_1457945)

Jharkhand to get 1000-acre IT hub

The Jharkhand government is acquiring 1,000 acres of land near Ranchi for developing an IT hub with a view to make the state new 'silicon valley' of the country, a senior official said on Monday. The Chief Secretary of Jharkhand, Ashok Kumar Singh, said that the state government has decided to make the state the new "silicon valley" of the country and for this purpose Chief Minister Arjun Munda has ordered acquisition of 1,000 acres of land near the capital.

He said that very soon the area will be acquired and it will be declared as an institutional area for the purpose of development of the IT industry.

"The bigwigs of IT industry like Wipro, IBM, HCL, Infosys and others will be invited to establish their software research and development units in the state after the development of the necessary infrastructure in the state," he added.

Asked about the problems of acquisition of such a huge land for the project, he claimed that it will be done smoothly with a pro-people policy.

He said that the state government is also formulating changes in the century old land acquisition law, to make it more pro-people and pragmatic.

Confronted with the naxal problem in the state, Singh said that these are the brief phases of the history and one should not stop its developmental efforts in view of such problems.

"Moreover the establishment of the IT industry in the state will solve the problem of unemployment in here and this will help in eradicating the naxal menace from the state," he added.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Jharkhand-to-get-1000-acre-IT-hub/H1-Article1-620619.aspx

Jharkhand to develop industrial parks

RANCHI: The Jharkhand government has decided to acquire at least 200 acres in each of the state’s 24 districts to develop industrial enclaves across the state. Accordingly, the state will acquire a total of 4,800 acres for industrial purpose in the coming months. The decision, which was taken a high level review meeting convened by chief minister Arjun Munda and attended by senior officials in the state industries department , is likely to give the much needed fillip to small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs).

The Munda government will soon direct the all district administrations to expedite land acquisition. The state government move comes at a time when almost all land, falling under existing industrial areas at Tatisilwai, Kokar, Tupudana and Mesra, in and around the state capital, and also in other parts, stands exhausted. “There is hardly any land left which can be given to new, small and medium scale industries. Therefore, we are looking for alternate places where these could be accommodated,” said an official.

“More and more entrepreneurs are willing to set up industrial units in the state. But they are not able to do so because of land problems. Therefore, the government has decided to act as a catalyst.” Jharkhand Small Industries Association (JSIA), has been informing the government of the problems it is facing in the absence of land for setting up new units. A JSIA official said a large number entrepreneurs are willing to set up their units but for the unavailability of land. “In Ranchi, for example, many applications for land are pending before the Plant Level Committee (PLC) of the Ranchi Industrial Area Development Authority (RIADA). If we get the required land, we will soon start our projects,” he said.

At present, there are about 3,000 small scale industries in Jharkhand mainly dependent on sponge iron and steel plants in the industrial areas of Ranchi, Adityapur (near Jamshedpur), Bokaro and Dumka.

However, most of them have been sick for quite some time. The government has also decided to take away lands which were leased to industries but were being used for residential purpose after the units got sick.

“We will hand over such land to the new entrepreneurs. We cannot allow land, which has become so difficult to acquire these days, to be locked,” said the state official.

source (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/infrastructure/Jharkhand-to-develop-industrial-parks/articleshow/6898570.cms)

A new swanky mall cum 3 screen multiplex coming up in the ranchi city with

12 escalators
Food Courts
Roof Top Dining
3 level parking
bowling alley


Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzRFqWP_xQ

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Here is a pic someone posted one Facebook. Rather small -

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^^^ HI Street Mall has started functioning with a Reliance Trend retail store n
Glitz Cinemas

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1101209/jsp/frontpage/story_13277315.jsp
At last the life line of jharkhand will be fully 4-laned.. cheers:banana:

Jharkhand to get Rs 3,000Cr for roads under PMGSY

As per the proposed plan, the state government would construct 2006 km of rural roads in the Naxal-hit areas with an outlay of Rs 548.58 crore The decision for grant was taken at a high-power committee of the Union Ministry of the Rural Development Department in New Delhi on Wednesday. Union Rural Development Secretary BK Sinha and his Jharkhand counterpart SK Satpati were present in the meeting.

As per the proposed plan, the State government would construct 2006 km of rural roads in the Naxal-hit areas with an estimated cost of Rs 548.58 crore.

As many as 49 bridges of different sizes would be built at the cost of Rs 96.09 crore. The plan also envisages connecting all the helmets having a population of 250 units with pucca roads.

The Centre has also agreed in principle to include about 8,500 km roads under the PMGSY scheme. A high-level team of experts from the National Rural Road Development Authority will visit the State within next fortnight to assess the conditions of the roads to be included under the PMGSY, Satpati said.

It may be noted that Rural development minister of the State Sudesh Mahato last month met Union rural development minister CP Joshi and his deputy Pradeep Jain in New Delhi and urged their support for improving rural connectivity in the naxal-affected districts.

As the centre has approved the project, the State government would soon float tenders to invite the expression of interest from the reputed construction firms to start work.

http://www.igovernment.in/site/jharkhand-get-rs-3000cr-roads-under-pmgsy-39053

ONGC starts ouput on CBM in Jharkhand

AFTER over three-year delay, ONGC has begun gas production from coal bed methane (CBM) block in Jharkhand. Earlier, the firm expected to produce CBM gas by June 2007.

Currently, the explorer is producing around 5,000 cubic mt of gas. The gas is sold to Kolkata-based firm CCL, a senior firm official told Financial Chronicle.

The gas is produced fr om Jharia block that is situated nearly 25 km east of Bokaro Steel city. “We target to produce 15,000 cubic metres of gas in next two-three months,” the official added.

In 2006, ONGC decided to invest Rs 950 crore for exploration and developm ent of six CBM blocks in Jharkhand and West Bengal. Out of these, Rs 557 cr ore has been earmarked for development of early CBM production in central Parbatpur of Jharia block.

ONGC has other CBM blocks under its ambit located in Raniganj, Bokaro and Karanpura. Pumping out of gas from CBM blocks involve three phases -exploratory, a pilot phase and final development.

Essar Group is producing 90,000-100,000 million standard cubic mt per day of gas from CBM block in Raniganj. Gas output from the block is expected to be around 3 million standard cubic mt per day in the next two-three years, Prem Sawhney, COO of Essar Oil had earlier said. Dilip Khanna, partner at E&Y, said that the outlook for gas produced from CBM blocks is very positive in India. The exploration risk is much less in CBM blocks when compared with offshore drilling, Khanna indicated.

India has the fourth largest proven coal reserves in the world and holds significant prospects for exploration and exploitation of CBM, according to oil regulator Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH).

The total sedimentary area for CBM exploration in India is around 26,000 square kilometers. Out of these, exploration has been initiated in 52 per cent of the area. The estimated CBM resource in the country is about 50 trillion cubic feet (tcf), out of which 8.39 tcf has been established.

source (http://www.mydigitalfc.com/petroleum/ongc-starts-ouput-cbm-jharkhand-431)

X-Posting from the Sportsbar Thread.

A view of the Ranchi Games Village (Khelgaon). Yesterday there was a visit by a team from the Indian Olympics Association (Yes Mr. Kalmadi was there too)
The team was "almost" satisfied :bash: with the preparations so far .


Photo CC: www.jagran.com
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Another xposting from the Sportsbar. A nice view of the Main Athletics Stadium

Main Stadium
Courtesy: NewsWing
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Crossposting my article from Sportsbar


A rather boasting :nuts: article about the Main Athletics Stadium. Gives a fair bit of idea about the numbers and specs though...

Article Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110128/jsp/jharkhand/story_13501789.jsp


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Not many know that the grand Birsa Munda Athletics Stadium was the inspiration behind the renovation of Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium that hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Among the ideas adopted by CWG organisers was the imported, dust and fireproof roof that has been used in the Ranchi stadium, which boasts a seating capacity of 35,000. To host all the athletics events, apart from the opening and closing ceremonies, the main stadium occupies pride of place in the 275-acre Mega Sports Complex. With its many elliptical pylons and ramps that lead to the upper tiers, it adds to the futuristic look of the area that houses seven other smaller stadiums. Now for a tour, courtesy, A.S.R.P. Mukesh

ROOF’S A HIT

The stadium’s fire, dust and rust proof roof, is made of poly tetrafluoro ethylene (PTFE). Designed by an Australian firm, the 11,550 square metre roof material was imported from Japan for Rs 8 crore and took four months to fix.

“It’s maintenance free and has a 15-year warranty. We have two, one at the VVIP section and one at the press box,” said R. Parthosarathy, senior project manager of Hyderabad-based Nagarjuna Construction, the builders

FRIENDLY FOR ALL

As many as 12 double lifts have been fitted in the stadium. Four towers in the corners connect to middle and upper galleries. The pathways are designed to allow wheelchairs till the upper tier. “Visitors will take this route. But, there will be no overcrowding or security problems when VVIPs and players enter the stadium. The disabled, too, can reach the top gallery without any difficulty,” said Parthosarathy

WARM-UP

An air-conditioned enclosure inside houses a six-lane warm-up track of 80 metre. “No athletics stadium in the country has such tracks. Participants can use this half-an-hour before their events,” said Rakesh Kumar Singh, Mega Sports Complex in-charge



ON TRACK

The synthetic track, designed according to international standards, is imported from Switzerland. The grass, however, is home grown — from Chennai

SPACE-AGE DESIGN

Doing away with cemented pillars, 62 elliptical pylon columns of 20 metres in height surround the stadium, which, from some angles, resemble a spaceship

STATE LOUNGES

Thirty-six lounges, with all basic facilities, are being prepared on the ground floor to accommodate state contingents. Besides, there are 32 dormitories that can accommodate 1,000 people

JAI HINDI

Of the 120 engineers at work, 40 were form Andhra Pradesh. Initially, language was a problem. But now, all say they can speak and follow Hindi. “I hardly knew Hindi but now I can interact in the local language with my workers,” said Sagar, a junior engineer

Adhunik group to have another power plant

Adhunik Power and Natural Resources Limited, a unit of Adhunik Group, will set up one Super Thermal Power plant in Jharkhand following the completion of the first project of 4 x 270 MW power plant at Padampur in Saraikela-Kharswan district.

Mr Naresh Goyal senior VP and plant head in Jharkhand told newsmen that "The proposal has been submitted to Jharkhand government about eight months ago. We are looking forward to sign a MoU."

He said the company has been searching for land in the state as the setting up of the plant in the ongoing project is not possible owing to non availability of land.

Mr Goyal said APNRL has proposal to enhance its capacity and plan to set up an additional over 1000 MW (2x660 MW) plant after the completion of the ongoing project of 4x270 MW (total 1080 MW) plant in Padampur in Kandra, about 25 kms from here.

Referring the ongoing project, he said the first unit of the ongoing project will be commissioned in the first quarter of 2012 and work was going on fast track to meet the deadline.

Mr Goyal said that the first unit of 4x270 MW plant will be commissioned in time may be one month here and there while the second unit was expected to be commissioned in the second quarter of the same year.

source (http://www.steelguru.com/indian_news/Adhunik_group_to_have_another_power_plant/189454.html)

SAIL to invest Rs 5,000 cr in Chiria mines

Steel Authority of India (SAIL) today said it will invest Rs 5,000 crore to develop the mines in Chiria and start mechanised mining in the next three years to feed its plants in Bokaro, Burnpur, Durgapur and Rourkela.

"Mechanised mining is expected to become operational in Chiria in around three years' time. The estimated cost for the development of the Chiria mines is about Rs 5,000 crore," SAIL said in a statement.

Tagging along 13 conditions, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh had only yesterday gave the forest clearance to SAIL for mining iron ore from Chiria reserves overturning Forest Advisory Committee's recommendations.
SAIL had sought permission for diversion of 595 hectares of land which is 25% of the total Chiria mine area. The permission was sought for a period of 20 years.

With the potential of producing 30-35 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) iron ore for the next 50 years; Ajitaburu, Budhaburu and Sukri-Latur leases in the Chiria iron ore mine are crucial for the maharatna firm, particularly for its integrated steel plants in Bokaro, Burnpur, Durgapur and Rourkela.

The existing mines of the state-owned steel major in the eastern part of the country have almost depleted and thus the Chiria mines would be the sole source of the raw material for these plants.

"Development of Chiria mines, the only compact deposit which can sustain large, mechanised mines of 30-50 MTPA capacity, is vital for the existing and future expansion plans of SAIL," the steel major said.

It added that over the next 50 years, around 40% of the company's iron ore requirement would be met from Chiria mines.

The environment ministry's clearance has apparently come as a much-needed relief for the company. SAIL on its part has reinforced its commitment, saying that it would leave no stone unturned to ensure mining in Chiria left no marks on the environment.

"In order to ensure environmental protection, SAIL has decided to carry out only mining and crushing activities in the mines. The iron ore will then be taken out of the forest area through a conveyor system.

Installation of the most modern type of conveyor system, with very low-level of noise and without the need for a service road for maintenance activities, has been planned. Such a system will ensure that impact of mining on flora and fauna in the area is zero," SAIL said.

In addition, SAIL would make a substantial contribution over next five years to a wildlife and biodiversity programme in the Saranda forest area, besides earmarking at least 2% of net profit for CSR activities every year.

SAIL has already initiated actions for the development of mechanised mines in Chiria, initially with a capacity of 7 MTPA and appointed Australia's Hatch Associates for preparing a detailed project report (DPR).

source (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/sail-to-invest-rs-5000-cr-in-chiria-mines/125375/on)

Link: http://www.mydigitalfc.com/news/nhai-told-give-highway-project-madhucon-614

n a relief to the Hyderabad-based infrastructure firm Madhucon Projects, the Delhi High Court has directed the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to award it Rs 1,479 crore Ranchi-Rargaon-Jamshedpur road project on National Highway-33 in Jharkhand.

Another article on the same story:
Article Link: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/interviews/expect-rs-1000-crore-in-toll-revenues-in-next-3-4-years-s-vaikuntanathan-madhucon-projects/articleshow/7709291.cms

NHAI has been told to give the Ranchi project on NH-33 to Madhucon Projects. S Vaikuntanathan, Director-Finance, Madhucon Projects in an interview with ET Now talks about bagging the project and the growth prospcets of the company going forward.

This 1490 crores work is between Ranchi and Jamshedpur. It is a 15-year concession period with 2.5 years as the construction period and each year we will be getting a semi-annuity of 133.2 crores, that means yearly we will be getting around 266.4 crores revenue by way of annuity, and this we hope to start by another 3-4 months

Link: http://www.orissadiary.com/ShowBussinessNews.asp?id=25313


Ranchi: ASSOCHAM’s summit on Rising Jharkhand – Land of Opportunities being held today (17th March) is expected to attract memorandum of understanding (MoUs) worth Rs over 80,000 crore which may generate 3,00,000 direct jobs and give 10% additional revenues to the state.

Disclosing this at a press conference on the eve of the summit , the ASSOCHAM office bearers Mr. Ravi Wig, Mr. K.C. Mehra and Mr. D.S. Rawat (secretary General) stated that most of the MoUs will be in tourism, education, food processing, poultry, farming, clusters, Infrastructure, power and steel.

Mr.Rawat said the Jharkhand investment facilitation centre at ASSOCHAM is aiming Rs. 2.5 lakh crores investment at next year summit from domestic and global investors.

The summit shall be inaugurated by state Chief Minister Mr.Arjun Munda and addressed amongst others by Deputy Chief Ministers Mr. Sudesh Mahto and Mr.Hemant Soren. The summit shall be attended by over 250 investors from the state and outside the state.

The chamber is focusing on the development of clusters of small and medium enterprises and is proposing to promote them on public/private partnership basis. The chamber has identified 12 clusters for handicrafts and handlooms, engineering and fabrication, bamboo and wood carving, terracotta, metal craft, auto crafts.

The chamber and Ernst & Young have jointly brought out a study identifying the areas for inclusive development of the state to be released by the Chief minister. Mr Wig said, ASSOCHAM has been significantly contributing to the process of policy formulation affecting wide range of socio-economic sectors both at the centre as well as State level. A special focus is being laid on investment generating activities in all states including Jharkhand. ASSOCHAM has been focusing the state of Jharkhand as one of the prime states to ensure rapid industrialization.

Mr. Mehra said the state should declare a policy to discourage its raw materials and should rather encourage value addition within the State, generate new jobs and strengthen its infrastructure.

Article Link: http://www.assocham.org/prels/shownews.php?id=2806


I think this is the 2nd time in a row :banana:


Ranchi has emerged as the lead employment provider among tier III cities in the forth quarter of fiscal 2010-11 (between Jan to March 11th) with a share of 17.8 per cent followed by Mangalore and Mysore of 13.9 per cent and 12.07 per cent respectively out of the total jobs tracked by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM).

In a Study on `New Employment Centre in Tier II & Tier III Cities’, brought out by the ASSOCHAM, it is also highlighted that Pune’s top five employment generating sectors comprised IT, ITeS, banking, education and automobile during Jan to March 2011.

Pune has emerged as the lead employment provider among tier II cities in the forth quarter of fiscal 2010-11 (between Jan to March 11th) with a share of 21.5 per cent followed by Lucknow and Pondicherry of 15.5 per cent and 11.5 per cent respectively out of the total jobs tracked by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM).

The top five sectors in Lucknow which have created vast employment opportunities in the period include Education, Banking, FMCG, Insurance and ITeS. In case of Pondicherry, these are Aviation, Banking, Energy, FMCG and Hospitality, further stated the ASSOCHAM Study.

Releasing the study, the ASSOCHAM Secretary General, Mr. D. S. Rawat said, “among tier III cities, Ranchi has emerged as the top employment provider with a share of 17.8 per cent. The cities of Mangalore and Mysore were ranked second and third constituting 13.9 per cent and 12.07 per cent of the total vacancies offered”.

In Ranchi, the top five sectors which have created maximum job prospects include energy, construction, metals, electronics and telecom. In case of Mangalore the top 5 sectors are engineering, energy, banking, insurance, FMCG and in the city of Mysore automobiles, insurance, pharma, manufacturing and education have provided abundant employment opportunities.

The tier II cities including Pune, Surat and Jaipur recorded maximum vacancies in insurance companies, banks, mutual funds, and brokerage houses. Among tier III cities Mangalore, Pondicherry and Aurangabad provided highest job openings in finance-related jobs.

Out of the 30 sectors, in both the tier II and tier III cities financial services sector provided maximum employment opportunities to the aspirants. The sector contributed a share of 19.5 per cent and 22.5 per cent in tier II and tier III cities respectively in terms of job openings.

The second largest share of the vacancies posted in the upcoming cities was for IT sector as the sector provided jobs to large number of aspirants contributing a share of 17 per cent in tier II cities and 17.5 per cent in tier III cities of the total sample.

The IT and IT-enabled services provided maximum job openings in Pune, Surat, Ahmedabad and Nagpur belonging to tier II cities. The low-cost cities of Mangalore, Jalandhar and Aurangabad were the most sought after by the IT firms amongst tier III cities.

In the tier II cities, the education sector occupied the third rank. It offered vacancies for teachers and professors in schools and universities contributing a share of 7.5 per cent in the total job openings.

The prominent tier II cities that provided maximum employment opportunity in the education sector include Lucknow, Pune and Jaipur. Education was followed by consultancy & research sector (4.92 per cent) and management sector (4.70 per cent) at fourth and fifth ranks respectively.

After Mysore, the cities of Raipur, Udaipur and Aurangabad topped the chart with fourth, fifth and sixth ranks respectively of the tier III cities generating maximum employment opportunities. Out of the top ten tier III cities the last four ranks were occupied by the cities of Patiala, Jalandhar, Meerut and Vishakhapatnam respectively.

Almost 6% of the openings publicized in last three months in tier III cities were offered by the FMCG sector, which stood at third rank. The cities with high job openings in the sector were Mangalore, Amritsar, Ranchi and Udaipur.

The automobile sector, at fourth rank constituting a share of 5.60 per cent is speeding towards the small cities where particularly two wheelers and low cost four wheelers are considered to be in high demand. The sector at fourth rank provided maximum vacancies in the cities of Pondicherry, Aurangabad, Vishakhapatnam and Mysore.

In tier three cities, research and consultancy offered a share of 4.81 per cent of vacancies to the aspirants. It occupied fifth rank as the highest employment provider in tier III cities of Ranchi, Aurangabad, Bhubneshwar, Coimbatore and Indore.

ஒரே நிதியாண்டில் 1லட்சம் சரக்கு வாகனங்களை உற்பத்தி செய்து டாடா சாதனை

ஜாம்ஷெட்பூர்: நடப்பு நிதியாண்டில் ஒரு லட்சம் சரக்கு வாகனங்களை உற்பத்தி செய்து டாடா மோட்டார்ஸ் புதிய சாதனை படைத்துள்ளது. ஒரே நிதியாண்டில் ஒரு லட்சம் சரக்கு வாகனங்களை உற்பத்தி செய்த முதல் இந்திய நிறுவனம் என்ற பெருமையையும் டாடா மோட்டார்ஸ் பெற்றுள்ளது.


நாட்டின் முன்னோடி நிறுவனமான டாடா மோட்டார்ஸ், சரக்கு வாகன தயாரிப்பில் முன்னிலை வகிக்கிறது. கடந்த சில ஆண்டுகளாக டாடா மோட்டார்சின் சரக்கு வாகன விற்பனை கிடுகிடுவென உயர்ந்து வருகிறது. இதனால், சரக்கு வாகன உற்பத்தியில் பல புதிய மைல் கற்களை டாடா பெற்று வருகிறது.

இந்நிலையில், நடப்பு நிதியாண்டில் இதுவரை ஒரு லட்சம் சரக்கு வாகனங்களை தயாரித்து டாடா மோட்டார்ஸ் புதிய சாதனை படைத்துள்ளது.

இதுகுறித்து டாடா மோட்டார்ஸ் சரக்கு வாகன வர்த்தகப் பிரிவு தலைவர் கூறியதாவது:

"நடப்பு நிதியாண்டில் ஒரு லட்சம் வாகனங்களை உற்பத்தி செய்து சாதனை படைத்துள்ளோம். உண்மையிலேயே பெருமைப்படக்கூடிய தருணம் இது. ஒரே நிதியாண்டில் ஒரு லட்சம் வாகனங்களை உற்பத்தி செய்த முதல் இந்திய நிறுவனம் என்ற பெருமை கிடைத்துள்ளதால் இரட்டிப்பு மகிழ்ச்சி அடைந்துள்ளோம்.

நடப்பு நிதியாண்டு முடிவில் 22 சதவீத வளர்ச்சியை பதிவு செய்வோம் என்று எதிர்பார்க்கிறோம். விற்பனை வளர்ச்சிக்கு தகுந்தவாறு உற்பத்தியும் அதிகரிக்கப்படும். மேலும், பெரும் வரவேற்பை பெற்றுள்ள வேர்டு டிரக்கின் புதிய மாடல்களையும் அறிமுகப்படுத்த திட்டமிட்டுள்ளோம்," என்றார்.

English summary
Tata Motors became the first Indian company producing one lakh commercial vehicles in a financial year."It is really a proud moment for the company as Tata Motors has become the country's first automobile company to produce one lakh commercial vehicles in a financial year," president of commercial vehicle business unit (CVBU) of Tata Motors, said in Jamshedpur.

http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/lifestyle/automobiles/2011/27-jamshedpur-tata-motors-production-aid0091.html

Article Link: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/indicon-logistics-to-invest-rs-500-cr-in-new-units/130845/on


Indicon Logistics, a subsidiary of Karam Chand Thapar (KCT) Group, today said it will invest about Rs 500 crore in next three years to set up new container manufacturing units and logistics in the country.

Besides this, the company will also commission its first container factory at Ranchi, Jharkhand on April 4, Indicon Logistics' Director Varun Thapar told reporters here.


"We have spent Rs 40 crore in this particular venture (at the plant in Ranchi), will spend Rs 100 crore in future container manufacturing units and rest in building the infrastructure," Thapar said, adding that all the funding is done through internal accruals of the KCT Group.

He further said the company is looking at multiple locations to set up new units, which will be 'strategically suited to the customers' but declined to comment further.

The Ranchi factory of the company has a capacity to make 1,200 TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent unit) containers a month and is single largest container manufacturing factory in the country at present, Thapar said.

Moreover, the Indicon Logistics is looking to make 10,000 TEUs containers in the first year, he said, adding that the capacity will be increased to 30,000 TEUs in three years.

The 20-foot equivalent unit (TEU) is an inexact unit of cargo capacity, used to describe the capacity of container ships and container terminals.

Besides this, the Indicon Logistics plans to diversify into the development of logistics infrastructure like integrated logistics hubs, container freight stations, inland container depots, cold chain and warehousing solutions.

Asked about listing the company into the stock exchanges, Vikram Thapar, vice-chairman of KCT Group said that none of the KCT Group companies are listed and "we are happy with that".

The company currently has an order book of about Rs 20 crore and aims to grab 50-55% market share in next one year, said Indicon Logistics' CEO Gopal Mukherjee.

The KC Thapar group is primarily engaged in coal and bulk logistics, having a net worth of about Rs 1,000 crore and handles about 70 million tonne of coal movement within the country.

Article Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Good-roads-top-priority/articleshow/7829419.cms


Reiterating his government's commitment to improve road connectivity in the state, chief minister Arjun Munda said he was in regular touch with the Centre and agencies concerned for speedy execution of the projects.

The projects include construction of new roads and upgradation of existing ones and highways. He said the work on Ranchi-Haldia four-lane "super highway" will start soon, provided technical bottlenecks are addressed at the earliest.
He is scheduled to meet Union surface transport minister in New Delhi next week. "The Ranchi-Haldia Super Highway is an important project that will cater to the interests of the entire eastern region. A few technical glitches prevented the preliminary work to start on time. However, I will be in Delhi next week and take up this issue with the Centre," said Munda.

About the proposed construction of the Adityapur-Kandra road, which is largely referred as the "killer stretch", Munda said the proposed road would be constructed, keeping the maximum load generation capacity of vehicular transport in view.

"The load-bearing capacity of the new road would be in proportion to the actual load generated by the vehicular transport on the road," said the CM.

Munda said he had requested the Centre to increase the assistance under the Backward Region Grants Fund (BRGF) for construction of state highways.

Reemphasizing his government's take on the poor road scenario of the state, Munda, during his two-day stay in the Steel City, said it is not possible to improve the economy without improving the condition of the roads in the state.

The proposed road link on the Chaibasa-Chawka-Sili-Golpur stretch, Birmitrapur-Ranchi-Bahragora corridor will be of strategic importance for rural economy and the present government is pursuing these projects on priority basis.

He said preliminary work on the long-pending Rs 1,500-crore plan to widen the Jamshedpur-Ranchi stretch of NH-33, the state's lifeline, is going on at moderate pace. The project part of National Highway Development Programme, phase III, was to be executed a couple of years back, but construction majors could not be roped in, leading to at least five deferments.

Without divulging the expected investment for carrying out the projects, the CM said the state government, with the financial assistance of the Centre, would carry out these projects and ensure the projects once taken up are completed on time.

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visited jhknd during dis holi break...
work on NH-33 betn. barhi n rnc going in full swing
there was significant progress in koderma-ranchi rail link

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visited jhknd during dis holi break...
work on NH-33 betn. barhi n rnc going in full swing
there was significant progress in koderma-ranchi rail link
Thats nice to know ...BTW did u take any pictures?

झारखंड की मुराद पूरी हो गई। कुछ अड़चनों और हिचकिचाहट के बावजूद वर्ष 2011-12 के लिए राज्य की 15,300 करोड़ रुपये की वार्षिक योजना को मंजूरी मिल गई। मुख्यमंत्री अर्जुन मुंडा के साथ लगभग डेढ़ घंटे चली बैठक के बाद योजना आयोग ने राज्य की मांग मानने के साथ ही यह भी याद दिला दिया कि योजनाओं के क्रियान्वयन में कोई कोताही नहीं होनी चाहिए। पिछले साल के मुकाबले लंबी छलांग लगाने वाले झारखंड को केंद्र ने एक बड़ा मौका दिया है। गौरतलब है कि 2010-11 के लिए राज्य को लगभग साढ़े नौ हजार करोड़ की योजना की मंजूरी दी गई थी। चालू वित्त वर्ष के लिए योजना राशि में वांछित वृद्धि के लिए जहां मुंडा ने योजना आयोग के उपाध्यक्ष मोंटेक सिंह अहलूवालिया के प्रति आभार जताया, वहीं मोंटेक ने याद दिला दिया कि अब राज्य सरकार को सक्रियता दिखाने की जरूरत होगी। बैठक में मोंटेक ने कहा कि राज्य में शुरू हुई कोशिशों से वह वाकिफ हैं, लेकिन और ज्यादा करने की जरूरत है। नक्सल-आदिवासी क्षेत्र के लिए शुरू की गई इंटीग्रेटेड एक्शन प्लान में राज्य के लिए संभावनाएं हैं।

cc: Dainik Jagaran (Jsr Edition)

जमशेदपुर बनेगा नगर निगम मुजतबा हैदर रिजवी सरकार ने जमशेदपुर को महानगरीय क्षेत्र (मेट्रो सिटी) का दर्जा देते हुए यहां नगर निगम बनाने की कवायद शुरू कर दी है। शहर की आबादी दस लाख से ज्यादा हो जाने के बाद इसकी पहल शुरू हुई है। नगर निगम बन जाने पर जमशेदपुर व मानगो अधिसूचित क्षेत्र समिति (अक्षेस) व जुगसलाई नगरपालिका का अस्तित्व समाप्त करते हुए इन निकायों को इसी में समाहित कर दिया जाएगा। इसके अलावा आदित्यपुर अक्षेस को भी भंग कर नगर निगम में शामिल कर दिया जाएगा। राज्य सरकार ने इस संबंध में पूर्वी सिंहभूम जिला प्रशासन को जल्द प्रस्ताव भेजने का निर्देश दिया है।

Translation: Jamshedpur to get a municipal authority, govt has ordered for a blue print

डेक्कन चार्टर्ड जल्द कोलकाता-जमशेदपुर के बीच दोबारा विमान सेवा शुरू नहीं करने जा रही है। कोलकाता से जमशेदपुर के बीच विमान सेवा बंद हो जाने से लोगों को खासा परेशानी हो रही है। डेक्कन चार्टर्ड के अधिकारी यह बोलने को तैयार नहीं हैं कि कब यह सेवा शुरू होगी। कोलकाता से जमशेदपुर के बीच रात्रि ट्रेन सेवा बंद होने की वजह से आम नागरिक से लेकर व्यवसायी वर्ग परेशान है। वहीं कोलकाता से जमशेदपुर के बीच विमान सेवा शुरू होने से खास कर व्यवसायी व कारपोरेट जगत से जुड़े लोगों ने राहत की सांस ली थी कि वे विमान से जमशेदपुर पहुंच सकते हैं, लेकिन 31 जनवरी के बाद से कोलकाता-जमशेदपुर के बीच आने-जाने वाली दोनों विमान सेवाएं बंद हैं। मालूम हो कि एक ही विमान सुबह नौ बजे से शाम चार बजे तक कोलकाता से जमशेदपुर के बीच तीन उड़ानें भर रहा था। बीस सीट वाले इस विमान का अच्छा रिस्पांस था। शुरू होने के कुछ दिनों के बाद किराये में भी वृद्धि की गई थी। 31 जनवरी के बाद बीच में एक-दो दिनों के लिए सेवा जरूर शुरू की गई थी। यह निर्णय विमान के इंजन में आयी खराबी को देखते हुए लिया गया था। जनवरी महीने में दो बार डेक्कन चार्टर्ड के विमान कोइंजन में खराबी आने के कारण कोलकाता में आपातकालीन स्थिति में उतारा गया था। इंजन को ठीक करवाने के बाद दोबारा सेवा शुरू की गई थी। इधर टिकटों की बुकिंग भी बंद कर दी गई है। ऐसे में समझा जा सकता है कि डेक्कन चार्टर्ड की सेवा दोबारा शुरू होने में समय लगेगा। सरकार के स्तर से कोई पहल नहीं होने की वजह से कारोबारी नाराज हैं।

flight service (charter) between CCU and IXW is not starting so soon, as the night train service between Tata and Hwh is posing as a drawback! It was earlier run by Deccan Charter.

cc: Dainik Jagran (Jsr Edition)

Article Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110414/jsp/frontpage/story_13852702.jsp


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The mega sports complex in Hotwar that will house the sports university

Ranchi, April 13: The state government is ready with a blueprint to create a sports university at the sprawling mega sports complex, created for the 34th National Games at a cost of over Rs 700 crore, even as efforts are on to put together a mammoth felicitation ceremony for Team India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

In keeping with a promise he made, along with chief minister Arjun Munda at the glittering closing ceremony of the Games on February 26, deputy chief minister and sports minister Sudesh Mahto passed on his his blueprint today to the department’s secretary Ajoy Kumar Singh, directing him to ensure that the sports university was a reality sooner than later.

Mahto told The Telegraph he wanted to constitute a committee of experts of national and international repute to advise the state government on the formation of the university.

According to the minister’s blueprint, the proposed university will have facilities for study — bachelor’s as well as master’s level — and research on various aspects of sports like sports management & sports communication; sports tourism; sports media and communication research; rehabilitation and health management and coaching.

Special training programmes for coaches will also be on offer.

Mahto said he was also planning specialised research centres on sports and health, Olympics studies, anti-doping measures, etc so that new courses could be evolved based on the findings of the research.

Admission to the university would be on the basis of a national-level sports aptitude test.

“It will be a unique venture, perhaps the first-of-its-kind in the country and will be given shape within the shortest possible time. The sports university tops my agenda,” he said, but refrained from giving a time-frame since a university has to be created after enacting a legislation in the Assembly.

Mahto said the sports department would also hold a mega programme to felicitate Dhoni and medal winners of the 34th National Games. “It will be a rare occasion to honour the winners of the National Games along with the hero of the most popular game of the country,” he said.

The state government had promised gold medal winners Rs 7 lakh, silver Rs 5 lakh and bronze Rs 3 lakh.

Hosts Jharkhand finished fifth at the Games, bagging as many as 33 gold, 26 silver and 37 bronze.

Shrachi Greens | Pardih chowk, Jamshedpur | u/c

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I thought development in India is restricted to a few states. Nice to see the rise of East Indian states. And I love Dhoni. A neighbor from Sri Lanka.

I thought development in India is restricted to few states. Nice to see the rise of East Indian states. And I love Dhoni. A neighbor from Sri Lanka.
Weclome to the forum buddy. Eastern India has been a pretty late bloomer and has taken much time to catch-up with the rate of dev happening in the remaining parts. A lot still has to be done, but we do see a quite a few shimmers of hope now.

HCL Infosystems bags Jharkhand's Rs 138-cr project (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/hcl-infosystems-bags-jharkhands-rs-138-cr-project/132740/on)



IT firm HCL Infosystems today said it has bagged a contract worth Rs 138 crore from Jharkhand for providing data and IT applications for energy accounting/auditing and IT-based consumer service centres.

The project, under the Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme (RAPDRP), was awarded by the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB), HCL Infosystems said in a statement.

The project will entail the establishment of data center, disaster recovery centre and customer care Centers at identified locations. The deployment will cover 30 towns including 66 sub-division offices and 354 other offices of JSEB.

The Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme (R-APDRP) is a flagship programme of the Indian government with a total outlay of Rs 51,577 crore.

Under the programme, IT companies would assist power utilities to strengthen and upgrade transmission and distribution networks from concept to commissioning in order to facilitate a reduction in aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses.

The project would help JSEB establish integrated IT solution for customer relationship management, meter reading, billing and collection, energy auditing and accounting for collection of accurate data and monitoring of loss reduction performance.

"This is our third R-APDRP project. We believe that new revolution in the power sector, initiated with R-APDRP, will play a decisive role in transforming the Electricity Distribution System in the country by reducing losses and adding greater efficiency," HCL Infosystems Chief Operating Officer (Enterprise Businesss) Rajeev Asija said.

The company had, in 2009, won the country's first R-APDRP project from Rajasthan for over Rs 500 crore and another project from Himachal Pradesh last year worth Rs 100 crore, it said.

Shares of HCL Infosystems closed at Rs 110.30, up 1.24% from its previous close on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

LeLac Hotels opened up their business hotel in Ranchi recently. Here's an ad from Dainik Bhaskar.
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Ranchi is now eagerly awaiting the inauguration of Radisson Blu hotel.

Article Link: MBA Universe (http://www.mbauniverse.com/article/id/4513/IIM-Ranchi-permanent-campus)


IIM Ranchi, the eighth IIM of the country, has finally been allocated land for its permanent campus. Although, much delayed, as the other new IIMs – IIM Rohtak and IIM Trichy – have already laid their foundation stones for their permanent campus.

The B-school has been allotted the land for its permanent campus in Khunti, which is about 35 kilometers from Ranchi, the state capital of Jharkhand. The institute is currently functioning temporarily from Soochna Bhawan, Ranchi.

IIM Ranchi started functioning in 2010 under the mentorship of IIM Calcutta. The second batch of IIM Ranchi will get inducted in July this year.

The site, which consists of about 800 acres land, has been verified by a two member team from the Ministry of HRD. According to Dr. M J Xavier, Director, IIM Ranchi, the proposed campus of IIM Ranchi will have classrooms, hostels, accommodation facilities for faculty members, auditorium, prayer hall, meditation room and swimming pool.

The land would be provided to IIM Ranchi for free of cost. Out of the 800 acre area, government owns 25 per cent of the land and wants to develop it into an education hub.

The foundation stones of other new IIMs, IIM Rohtak and IIM Trichy, have been already laid. The Union Minister of Human Resource Development, Mr. Kapil Sibal laid the foundation stone of both the institutes.

On October 1, 2010, the foundation stone of IIM Rohtak was laid in Garnawathi village, Rohtak. The temporary campus from where IIM Rohtak is functioning is Maharishi Dayanand University.

The foundation stone of IIM Trichy was laid on January 4, 2011. The institute will start functioning from the academic year 2011. Mentored by IIM Bangalore, IIM Trichy will function temporarily at the National Institute of Technology campus. Around 200 acres of land within the Bharathidasan University campus in Mathur have already been earmarked for creating the necessary infrastructure for the upcoming IIM.

The other new IIMs which are currently preparing the roadmap for their permanent campuses are IIM Raipur, IIM Udaipur and IIM Kashipur.

Centenary Mall | Bistupur (Near Voltas House) | Jamshedpur | u/c

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Details:

No. of Floors : G+10
Completion Time : December 2012

This project celebrates 100 years completion of TATA STEEL.

Highlights

> This is the most ambitious civic amenities project in Jamshedpur today.

> A partnership project with the Jusco and Forum Group.

> The responsibility for providing civic amenities has been taken by JUSCO.

> Upcoming Multiplex facilitated by INOX (4 Screens).

> Approximately space for 1000 Car parks.

a snap of the progress made on this project:

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How are the demolitions of slums in Jharkhand coming along? Has it stopped or picked up pace?

I guess there is one more mall coming up beside this one... that is also huge... i can get you the pics...

I heard one is coming up near Pardih Chowk, also from some of my friends i have heard that mostly the mall are coming up in Sakchi, Bistupur has hardly any space, but it would a good thing in Jsr, if two malls come side by side, it would be a great thing!!

yes, Sudhansu, post the pics would love to see on ground progress, instead of this aerial one!!...miss my hometown a lot!!!...:(

a snap of the progress made on this project:

http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/9947/workunderprogressview32.jpg

Impressive .... It would probably be the first INOX in Jharkhand.^^

yep...but the multiplex culture was first introduced in Dhanbad, by launching FAME!!

yep...but the multiplex culture was first introduced in Dhanbad, by launching FAME!!
I think Eyelex - Ranchi was first one in the state (Around 2007). However Fame - Dhanbad is the first mainstream one to happen in Jharkhand followed by Glitz Ranchi. I heard Inox was building properties in Dhanbad and Ranchi as well.

Article Link: http://profit.ndtv.com/news/show/tatas-seek-government-s-nod-for-jameshedpur-airport-154700?pfrom=home-Business

Diversified business house Tata Group may not have had much luck in owing an airline but it sure is eyeing the aviation space.

As part of their plans, Tata Steel has submitted a proposal to civil aviation ministry seeking nod to build a new Greenfield airport in Jamshedpur. Tata steel has applied to the civil aviation ministry for obtaining site clearance for the proposed new airport project at Jamshedpur. Tata steel has also submitted a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the new Greenfield airport.

An important fact of the proposal is that in its proposal Tata Steel has proposed to build new airport as a part of CSR activity for public use. As per the proposal new airport will replace the existing smaller airport. Larsen & Toubro has carried out technical feasibility study for the new airport. The official spokesperson for Tata Steel confirmed the development.

In this proposal, Tata Steel has mentioned that air connectivity has become extremely important with other parts of the country has become extremely important for the steel city. At present no commercial operations exist at Jamshedpur airport which was developed in 1940. The short runway of the existing airport has curtailed aircraft operations as only small aircrafts are eligible to operate. Thus barring scheduled air services who limit in attracting commercial operations to the city.

Tata steel want to develop the airport infrastructure for the city as the nearest airport is the Ranchi Airport which is three and half hour away from steel city.



Read more at: http://profit.ndtv.com/news/show/tatas-seek-government-s-nod-for-jameshedpur-airport-154700?pfrom=home-Business&cp

:banana:..now that's a news...:banana:

Article: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110604/jsp/frontpage/story_14066808.jsp


Ranchi, June 3: Over 60,000 people of Jharkhand are fast realising the benefits of aadhaar, having already opened bank accounts with the help of their unique numbers issued by the Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification Authority of India.

UIDAI started enrolments in the state last September, and already six lakh residents have their numbers with another 16 lakh waiting in the wings, having completed formalities that include recording fingerprints and retina scans.

“According to latest figures available with us, about 60,000 aadhaar-enabled bank accounts have been opened in Hazaribagh and Deoghar, where a pilot project was initiated late last year,” said Ajoy Kumar Singh, the state MGNREGS commissioner.

Many of these people are workers in the Centre’s flagship rural job scheme and were now receiving payments through their aadhaar-enabled bank accounts. Also, those who have opened accounts as part of the government’s financial inclusion pilot projects are already conducting transactions.

With the success of the Hazaribagh and Deoghar pilot project, started in October 2010, the authorities are now thinking of extending it to West Singhbhum, Lohardaga, Gumla, East Singhbhum, Giridih and Ranchi, where people will be encouraged to open aadhaar-enabled bank accounts.

Apart from banking, aadhaar numbers will have extensive future benefits. For example, it will be used while issuing passports, PAN cards, address verifications, voter ID cards, driving licences etc.

The state rural development department has already linked the aadhaar numbers of labourers working in MGNREGS in Hazaribagh and Deoghar to facilitate payments through their bank accounts.

“After the wages are transferred in the bank accounts of labourers, they can withdraw the money from panchayat banks. The account holder’s fingerprints are verified to authenticate his genuineness before he can withdraw the money,” Singh explained the process that will ensure payments reach the right person and corruption is eliminated.

Panchayat banks, he added, were banking outlets at panchayat headquarters. These were a great help for villagers who would otherwise have to travel to block headquarters to access a bank and withdraw money.

Alongside the pilot projects, UID has ensured that anyone with an aadhaar number could open a bank account anywhere in the state.

“Those who have already got their aadhaar numbers in Jharkhand can do banking activities using these numbers,” said S.K. Singh, coordinator of state level bankers’ committee.

Article: http://machinist.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3394&Itemid=2


Ranchi: Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), Ranchi has tied up with Vitkovice a.s, a Czech Republic based engineering group, for cooperation in the areas of Steel Plant Equipments, Thermal & Nuclear Power Plants and Shafting for Naval Ships.

Vitkovice Power Engineering a.s. has expertise in manufacture of Thermal Power, Nuclear Power equipment and steel sector. Vitkovice will transfer Special Steel making technology for forgings and castings of Nuclear and Thermal Power Plants.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by G K Pilliai, CMD, Heavy Engineering Corporation Limited, Ranchi & Dalibor Fabian, Commercial Director, Vitkovice a.s, Czech Republic in the presence of S Sundareshan IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Harbhajan Singh IAS, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprise at Udyog Bhavan, New Delhi. Michal Pastusek, General Manager and Robin Ojha, MD, Vitkovice India were also present on the occasion.

Vitkovice has around thirty companies including Vitkovice Heavy Machinery and Vitkovice Power Engineering. Vitkovice Heavy Machinery a.s, has expertise in manufacture of ship components, components for Nuclear Power, Marine and equipment for steel plants.

Article: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Greenery-along-Ring-Rd-planned/articleshow/8716680.cms


RANCHI: The district environment committee on Friday asked the forest department to submit a proposal for tree plantation along the Ring Road under construction.

Deputy commissioner-cum-chairman of the committee K K Soan said that plantation along the 81-km road will not only help in making the area green but also give employment to villagers. "I have asked the forest department to submit the proposal at the earliest so that plantation work starts before the onset of monsoon," said Soan.

Since a long stretch of the road crosses rural areas, villagers can even seek employment in the drive under schemes of MGNREGA. On the other hand, the committee also decided to plant tree at important places in the city on the occasion of World Environment Day on June 5. "It has been noticed that use of banned polythene has not stopped. I have constituted teams to conduct raids," he said.

Under the deal the Jharkhand Road Project Implementation Company will renovate the 68.70 kilometre long Chaibasa-Kandra-Chowka road

Link: http://www.igovernment.in/site/jharkhand-signs-rs-433-cr-deal-road-project


The Jharkhand government has signed a Rs 433 crore deal with the Jharkhand Road Project Implementation Company (JRPIC) — a subsidiary of IL&FS Transport Networks— to renovate the 68.70 kilometre long Chaibasa-Kandra-Chowka road.

To be constructed on build-operate-transfer (BOT) mode, the company is expected to complete the project in the next two and a half years. The project involves strengthening and widening of the four-lane road, which was caught many controversies during the regime of former chief minister Madhu Koda.

Road Construction Department Secretary NN Sinha said that the task also involved development of paved shoulder of the road. The work was awarded to JRPIC on the basis of qualification of its technical and financial binds invited through a global tender last year.

"The project is on annuity basis with a concession period of 17.5 years.The company shall receive a semi-annual annuity of Rs 41.13 crore," a company official said.

Link: http://www.mid-day.com/sports/2011/jun/140611-Mahendra-Singh-Dhoni-India-academy.htm


World Cup-winning India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is all set to build a cricket centre and school in his hometown of Ranchi.

Currently, on a break, following the Indian Premier League and choosing not to go to West Indies for T20 and ODI-leg of the tour, Dhoni is believed to have met up with Jharkhand State government officials to discuss his ambitious plans a few days ago.

Dhoni is planning a school at his farmhouse in an area called Simalia along with a practice pitch where he plans to train during his off days. A source close to the skipper told MiD DAY: "He is planning to build a cricket coaching centre, besides a school for children, where some of the best educational facilities will be provided."

Dhoni's cricket academy will be built with the support of the Jharkhand Government. The state's Deputy Chief Minister Sudesh Mahato has already agreed to give Dhoni six acres of land for the purpose.

A source said: "Everything is ready and we are only waiting for Jharkhand Chief Minister (Arjun Munda) to return from his international trip. Once he is back, all the official work will proceed. Dhoni has always wanted to do something for his home town and is very serious about his school."

:okay:^^

Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Cardiac-care-institute-soon-in-Ranchi-Fortis/articleshow/9166367.cms


^^^^

RANCHI: Cardiac care institute soon in Ranchi: Fortis Escorts Heart Institute is opening its cardiac care centre in the city in association with Alam Hospital and Research Centre (AHRC).

Equipped with sophisticated facilities, the 40-bed hospital is likely to come up by October and will cater for heart patients of the region. AHRC medical director Majeed Alam said on Saturday that the centre had applied for certification from the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and was ready to provide infrastructure that the Fortis Escorts institute prescribed.

Roadways @ jharkhand is going to the NEXT LEVEL
1> NH-33 4-laning from ranchi to hazaribagh is going on at full swing....
2> Ring road around ranchi is also coming up nice and fast
3> 4-laning of ramgarh-barkakana-patratu-ranchi is going on at max speed.

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110713/jsp/jharkhand/story_14233294.jsp


Ranchi, July 12: Chief minister Arjun Munda today emphasised the need to harness human resources in a mineral resource rich state as he announced two new colleges exclusively for women in the capital and a university centre dedicated to research.

Addressing academics, teachers and students on the occasion of the 51st foundation day of Ranchi University, Munda said he was concerned about the poor state of human resources in Jharkhand and would do everything possible to ensure quality higher education for the youth.

He added that land would be identified for Ranchi University in the city to set up a centre dedicated exclusively for research. “It is true that the state has lots of mineral resources. But my aim is to make the state rich in human resource as well,” Munda said, but did not set a timeframe for either the research centre nor the new colleges.

At present, the capital has three colleges exclusively for women — Ranchi Women’s College, Marwari College (women’s wing) and Nirmala College, the latter run by Christian missionaries. Together the three colleges offer 17,000 seats in different subjects.

In Jamshedpur, Jamshedpur Women’s College and Graduate College for Women are the two institutions of higher learning exclusively for women, offering about 8,000 seats between them.

Other colleges in Ranchi like St Xavier’s, Ranchi College, S.S. Memorial College and J.N. College also admit girls, and the institutions cater to students not only from the capital, but also from rural areas like Lohardaga, Gumla, Simdega and Khunti.

Munda said educating women was akin to educating society given the role women played in shaping the overall outlook of every family. He, however, expressed concern over the large number of dropouts in the primary and secondary levels.

“There are many problems in Jharkhand, which can only be solved through education for all,” said Munda.

Today, the chief minister inaugurated an Information and Knowledge e-Centre — a multi-storey building constructed by Ranchi University on the Central Library campus. The centre offers international books and journals online and also hosts two study halls.

Vice chancellor A.A. Khan said Ranchi University was on the path of becoming a good centre of learning. “We have 120 students who are under the Rajiv Gandhi Fellowship. No other university in Bihar or Jharkhand can boast that figure,” said Khan.

The UGC fellowship offers students pursuing doctoral studies Rs 12,000 per month.

Khan added the three postgraduate science departments — physics, geology and mathematics — would soon be shifted to the new Institute of Basic Sciences, a building that has come up in front of Ranchi College.

Pro vice chancellor V.P. Sharan and other faculty members were among those who attended the function. A cultural programme was also organised at Maulana Azad Senate Hall to mark the occasion.

http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/jharkhand-tourism-dept-to-lease-hotels/754235.html

Jharkhand tourism dept to lease hotels

PTI | 07:07 PM,Jul 11,2011
Ranchi, July 10 (PTI) Tourism Minister Bimla Pradhan today said two hotels run by the Jharkhand State Tourism Development Corporation (JSTDC) would be leased out to private parties to increase revenue and efforts were on to help requirement of tourists."To start with, we will give two out of eleven hotels run by the JSTDC with an aim to generate more revenue. We have also decided to take assistance from 200 persons through NGOs as guides and receptionists to help tourists," Pradhan told PTI here.They would be trained by selected management institutions before being sent to different pilgrim places like Rajrappa temple and waterfalls, she said.Though tourist flow has increased at all the religious places in the state, the minister expressed concern over the decreasing number of tourists to sanctuaries due to frequent bandhs by the banned CPI (Maoist)."Tourist flow has fallen in places like Palamau Tiger Reserve, Betla, due to bandhs, which force tourists to cancel tickets," Pradhan said when asked whether Maoist menace was affecting the tourism sector.She said she would request Chief Minister Arjun Munda for a significant increase in funds in next budget for the development of tourism.She said about 17,000 foreign tourists had visited Jharkhand last year, and the department was hopeful the figure would increase this year.

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-07-12/ranchi/29764191_1_community-college-diploma-age-bar


Community college to be set up in Ranchi
Sanjay Ojha, TNN Jul 12, 2011, 11.14pm IST
RANCHI: The oldest varsity of the state Ranchi University has decided to start the first community college in Jharkhand.

The system of community college is prevalent in many countries across the globe and provide different courses depending on the need of society. In Ranchi, it will provide short-term certificates and diploma courses that are useful in day-to-day life. It will also provide training in vocational and technical skills to school passouts.

Vice-chancellor A A Khan said it had been noticed that many people after a successful career of 20 or 25 years wanted to upgrade their knowledge through short-term courses, may be in office management or computer application. "At times, they even want to revise or gather knowledge about the latest development in the field of physics or chemistry, but fail to do so as there is no place which conducts such courses or classes in the state and probably in the country," explained Khan who has served in universities not only in India but also in West and South-East Asia.

Our aim is to start the community college in the heart of the state capital where there will be no age bar for admission. At the same time, we will organize lecture sessions by eminent personalities from different fields for knowledge upgradation of people willing to revise their subjects," said Khan.

He added that the university will very soon finalize the place and prepare the blueprint for the college. "Initially, we will manage classes with the help of the existing faculty of the university who will visit the college once a day," said Khan.

In case, working or retired professionals are ready to accept the responsibility of teaching in the college, they would be welcome.

However, in the beginning, no one will be given fixed salary. It will be like a social service. The university will give some honorarium if sufficient funds are is generated by the college.

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Article Link on IBNLive.com (http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/villagers-agree-to-give-land-for-knowledge-city/759156.html)

FYI: Khunti, is a small district headquarter 30Kms from Ranchi. IIM (Ranchi) and National Law University have been allocated land for their permanent campuses here.

Khunti (Jharkhand), Jul 20 (PTI) Khunti district administration today claimed that all but one villager has agreed to part with their land, a day after Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda announced to make Khunti a knowledge city spread over about 800 acres."Only one woman does not want to give her land. We don't need her land as we have identified the required land," the Khunti Deputy Commissioner, Rakesh Kumar told PTI here.He was replying to a query whether a section of villagers had objected to part with their land when Munda announced yesterday about the government's plan to set up medical, engineering, law and other institutions to make Khunti a knowledge city.

Article Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110725/jsp/jharkhand/story_14284425.jsp



http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110725/images/25RanHotel1.jpg

Chief minister Arjun Munda,
union tourism minister
Subodh Kant Sahay and
state tourism minister
Vimla Pradhan lay the
foundation stone of the
management school on
Central University of
Jharkhand campus at
Brambe on Sunday.
Picture by Hardeep Singh


Brambe (Ranchi), July 24: Five years after it was first proposed and one false start later, the Institute of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition at Brambe took a big step towards taking shape today with chief minister Arjun Munda laying the foundation stone, albeit for the second time.

The prestigious institute will come up at a cost of Rs 20 crore, of which Rs 12 crore will be provided by the Centre and the rest by the state.

Conceived to train students in hotel management through a three-year degree course to start with, the institute was first proposed in 2006 and the foundation stone laid by Munda himself, as he was chief minister then. However, after that, the project stalled.

Speaking at the ceremony today, Munda admitted that the state had let students down by delaying the institute all these years.

“The file just went from one table to another in the tourism department all these years. We failed to do justice to the aspirations of the students. We failed to teach them to grab opportunities which are around,” the chief minister admitted.

The ceremony was attended by Union tourism minister Subodh Kant Sahay. Among others present were state tourism minister Vimla Pradhan, Lohardaga MP Sudarshan Bhagat, Mandar MLA Bandhu Tirkey, tourism secretary Smita Chugh and principal secretary to the chief minister D.K. Tiwary.

The proposed institute would be the first state-run hotel management cradle. Among private institutes offering similar courses in the state are BIT-Mesra and ISM-Pundag.

The institute will come up over five acres at Brambe, close to the temporary campus of Central University of Jharkhand.

Asking his officials not to delay matters any further, Munda ordered that the facility should be built within a year so that the academic session could get underway from next year itself.

At present, all institutes of hotel management around the country taken together produce only 14,000 graduates in a year, as against a requirement of about 2 lakh personnel.

On the occasion, Sahay asked the state government to prepare proposals to develop tourism in the state and seek money from the Centre.

“The Union tourism ministry has agreed to provide funds to the tune of Rs 50 crore for developing a mega tourism circuit in and around Ranchi. Spend the sum as soon as possible and give the Centre more such proposals,” Sahay told Munda.

Sahay added that if Jharkhand was interested in developing a golf course, his department would provide fund to the tune of Rs 25 crore.

At the ceremony, Munda also launched a new scheme — hunar se rojgar (from skills to employment) — in which the state tourism department would train young boys and girls to become hotel housekeepers, tourist guides etc, to generate employment opportunities.

Link: http://www.igovernment.in/site/rs-5000-cr-plan-improve-roads-jharkhand


Rs 5,000 Cr plan to improve roads in Jharkhand
About 1,000 km stretch of new roads will be built and 5,000 km strengthened by the State Highways Authority of Jharkhand in the next couple of years

Ranchi: The Jharkhand Government has unveiled the roadmap for development of road network, envisaging building of 1,000 km new roads and strengthening of over 5,000 km roads in the next couple of years.

This will be apart from 300 km-stretch of roads, which have been transferred to the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to undertake strengthening and widening work by the Centre.

The Union Ministry of Surface Transport has recently approved the State government’s proposal to rope in the NHAI for rebuilding four important roads, which connects Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Orissa.

Announcing the mega proposal to develop the network of roads, Chief Minister Arjun Munda, who holds the Road Construction Department, said the State government has proposed to invest Rs 5,000 crore over the next couple of years to ensure smooth ride to the people while travelling between the district headquarters.

The department has already taken up repair and strengthening work on over 5,000 km stretch of the State highways, for which a sum of Rs 3,144 crore has been earmarked.

“The government has already allocated Rs 1,700 crore for construction of about 1000 km new roads, the detailed project report (DPR) of which have already been cleared by the cabinet. As many as 25 bridges on various rivers and their tributaries would also be constructed,” Munda said.

To give pace to the road construction work, the government has set up the State Highways Authority, which will function under the recently approved guidelines for building and maintenance of the State highways.

“The State government has also taken up work to build rail over-bridge at 15 locations across the State with support from the Ministry of Railways to do away with frequent traffic jams on the highways,” Munda said.

With a view to improving the road connectivity in rural areas, the Centre has already made huge allocations under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY).

Article Link on IBNLive.com (http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/villagers-agree-to-give-land-for-knowledge-city/759156.html)

FYI: Khunti, is a small district headquarter 30Kms from Ranchi. IIM (Ranchi) and National Law University have been allocated land for their permanent campuses here.

Law-NLU
Medical-Coal India can set up its medical/engineering college here
Management-IIM Ranchi
Medicine-Must set up AIIMs in public private partnership

Manipal is also planning campus in Ranchi, can be given land here.

Law-NLU
Medical-Coal India can set up its medical/engineering college here
Management-IIM Ranchi
Medicine-Must set up AIIMs in public private partnership

Manipal is also planning campus in Ranchi, can be given land here.
If these institutuions really come there, it will be a muti-beneficial deal. Biggest being the saving of money outflow to other states by students seeking good education elsewhere (due to lack of it). Also, this definitely lays a good foundation stone for many skill/technology based industries (e.g. IT/ITes) to setup shops locally. Hope all of these fructify and see the light of the day (There is a good probability of this happening after seeing the recent spate of many other institutions that have already been setup now) :banana:

If these institutuions really come there, it will be a muti-beneficial deal. Biggest being the saving of money outflow to other states by students seeking good education elsewhere (due to lack of it). Also, this definitely lays a good foundation stone for many skill/technology based industries (e.g. IT/ITes) to setup shops locally. Hope all of these fructify and see the light of the day (There is a good probability of this happening after seeing the recent spate of many other institutions that have already been setup now) :banana:

The advantage JK has over Bihar is that it has many towns: Ranchi, Dhanbad, Bokaro and Jamshedpur. Each of these has facilities that would make it attractive to people/faculty to come there. For now, I know the following are coming for sure:

1. NLU
2.IIM
3.Coal India-one engineering one medical in Ranchi/one medical in Dhanbad
4. Manipal (problem here is that it is going to do so in the second phase.)
5. Bangalore/Pune/Hyderabad-based reputed institutes need to be roped in to set up campuses.

Article: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110802/jsp/jharkhand/story_14320670.jsp

Abhijeet Group's plant has already completed a major part of its construction; Essar one also has also come up above the gorund already. I think both should be able to meet the 2012 deadline :banana:


Power shortage in Jharkhand is likely to be alleviated to a large extent with the commissioning of two major plants by the end of 2012.

While the Essar Group has set a September 2012 deadline for completing the first phase of its 2,000MW plant at Latehar, Abhijeet Group too intends producing 540MW of its final capacity of 1,740MW by March 2012 from its plant at Chandwa in the same district.

So by the end of next year, the two power majors together would be producing nearly 2,000MW, of which 25 per cent would be used within the state.

“We are all set to start producing 1,200MW out of the total capacity of 2,000MW in the first phase. Work on putting in place the foundation, boundary wall and commissioning of equipment has already started,” Essar Group general manager (corporate affairs) Lav Kumar told The Telegraph.

In the first phase, the group is expected to invest Rs 1,100 crore, of the total Rs 8,000 crore proposed investment in the state.

“Many of the statutory clearances have been obtained. Our coal would be supplied from Chakla coal block in Latehar and Ashok Kerketta coal block in Chatra and Latehar,” Kumar added.

Notably, the group was able to purchase about 600 acres of private land directly from raiyats while it was handed over possession of about 290 acres of government land. The plant is being executed by group company Essar Constructions.

The following piece is an interesting one...
Meanwhile, company sources said the group would soon come up with a business process outsourcing (BPO) unit in the state capital. This would be second such unit in the state after the one at Jamshedpur.
“We are searching for suitable space to set up the BPO, which would serve an Indian as well as international clientele. It would be a 2,500 seats capacity facility,” said Kumar.


The group, however, is going slow on its proposed steel plant project in West Singhbhum due to land hiccups. The company recently engaged former chief secretary M.K. Mandal as resident director to expedite matters.

Abhijeet Group, on the other hand, plans to set up three units together capable of producing 1740MW at an investment of over Rs 10,000 crore. Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited is commissioning the plant.

Pending power projects in the state for which MoUs were signed way back include that of CESC (Dumka, Santhal Pargana), Tilaiya ultra mega power project of Reliance Group (Hazaribagh-Koderma), Jindal Power Limited (Godda, Santhal Pargana), among others

^^ Also maithon 1100MW plant will be commissioned by September or October as 525 MW has already been commissioned last month. So power surplus for Jharkhand by 2012 :cheers:

^^ Also maithon 1100MW plant will be commissioned by September or October as 525 MW has already been commissioned last month. So power surplus for Jharkhand by 2012 :cheers:
Wow that's even more encouraging news ..... However on the Transmission & Distribution end a lot more is expected... Heard Reliance Power and few other private cos. have been envisaged for this duty (Not sure of the Agreements and Timelines though) ... a lot of rural areas are still to see even basic poles and powerlines...so a lot more is desirable!!! Nonetheless things do look like progressing in the right direction.:banana:

^^ Also maithon 1100MW plant will be commissioned by September or October as 525 MW has already been commissioned last month. So power surplus for Jharkhand by 2012 :cheers:

Is the entire 1100 MW going to Jharkhand? In the previous post - only 25% got earmarked to the State - rest I assume is going to MPPs!!!

yes JH will get some of the power from 1100MW may be anywhere between 10-25%.

Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/SAIL-to-spend-Rs-60000cr-in-Bokaro-Sindri/articleshow/9539760.cms


Managing director of Bokaro Steel Limited S S Mohanty on Sunday said that Steel Authourity of India Limited (SAIL) is going to spend around Rs 60,000 crores in Bokaro and Sindri areas in coming 10 years.

"The is such a huge amount of money will boost development of state and this area," said Mohnaty. He was addressing to the entrepreneurs and industrialists at a seminar on the role of Bokaro in development of Jharkhand' organised by Federation of Jharkhand Chamber of

Commerce and Industries (FJCCI) here. Apart from Mohanty, the director (Incharge) of Electrosteel Steel Limited (ESL), R Singh, executive director, BMW Industries Limited, Pius Thomas, president of FJCCI, Sajjan Saraf, president of Bokaro Chamber of Commerce and Industries, Sanjay Vaid and others were present at the function. Mohanty said that SAIL which recently got a nod from Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is all set to come up with a steel plant of 5.6 million tonne per annum (MTPA) capacity, a fertilizer plant of 1.15 MTPA and a power plant in Sindri district of Dhanbad. SAIL would invest around Rs 34,000 crore in it. Besides, more or less same amount of money will be spending in modernization and expansion of Bokaro Steel Limited (BSL).

BSL, a unit of SAIL, and Sindri are situated closely to each other. However, for the first time, Mohanty came out so clearly with his opinion over the issues related to BSL and this area. He said, SAIL is only the company which will bring development in a big way in Jharkhand.

I guess there is one more mall coming up beside this one... that is also huge... i can get you the pics...

are u talking about the pm mall near ramdas bhatta/opp. ramakrishna mission school bistupur?

Centenary Mall | Bistupur (Near Voltas House) | Jamshedpur | u/c

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Details:

No. of Floors : G+10
Completion Time : December 2012

This project celebrates 100 years completion of TATA STEEL.

Highlights

> This is the most ambitious civic amenities project in Jamshedpur today.

> A partnership project with the Jusco and Forum Group.

> The responsibility for providing civic amenities has been taken by JUSCO.

> Upcoming Multiplex facilitated by INOX (4 Screens).

> Approximately space for 1000 Car parks.

This will really beat other multiplexes in jharkhand by miles. I think can easily come under the best malls of eastern india.

I heard one is coming up near Pardih Chowk, also from some of my friends i have heard that mostly the mall are coming up in Sakchi, Bistupur has hardly any space, but it would a good thing in Jsr, if two malls come side by side, it would be a great thing!!

yes, Sudhansu, post the pics would love to see on ground progress, instead of this aerial one!!...miss my hometown a lot!!!...:(

actually getting the pics is a little hard. The entire structure is barricaded and little can be seen. BTW how did u get up in the slag hill!!


The malls and multiplexes coming up in JSR(under construction and planned):

1. Mega 10 floored City centenary mall(near voltas house) with INOX multiplex

2. ?? mall with multiplex of praksh jha's company near ramdas bhatta/opp. RKMS school bistupur...[as per as i saw last the building has topped out/will try to post some pics]

3. Eylex multiplex with big bazar in nh33 [almost completed]

4. 7 storeyed Marina plaza mall by ashiana builders in marine drive road with a 4 star hotel of HYATT

5. Bindal mall just beside sl no.4, to come up in dec2013.

:banana:

6. Mall near/opposite regent(sonnet)/center point hotel..was stuck for a long time, don't know the progress.
7. A shopping complex/mini mall near basant talkies.(no updates).

IMAGES OF MARINA PLAZA, marine drive

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BINDAL MALL, marine drive



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BINDAL MALL, marine drive


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BINDAL MALL, marine drive


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Bindal mall under contruction

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prakash jha's PMinfra's mall...name ??





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EYLEX JAMSHEDPUR

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Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110817/jsp/jharkhand/story_14386037.jsp


:banana:Good for Jsr and for Ranchi as it is getting another premium institution.


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The hunt is on for an IT major to help the state set up an Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) in the capital.

In a week, state officials will take part in an interactive session with senior representatives of big names in the IT sector like TCS, Wipro and Infosys, among others, in an attempt to find an industry partner for the Ranchi chapter of IIIT.

Though the Centre sanctioned an IIIT for Jharkhand early this year, the state’s search for an industry partner has so far proved futile.

“The state received the Centre’s sanction in February. We had earlier invited IT companies for talks to set up an IIIT. The companies have now responded and requested us to organise an interactive session to garner details about the proposed project to understand what is expected of them,” state IT secretary Satendra Singh told The Telegraph.

The project is expected to cost Rs 128 crore. While the Centre will bear 50 per cent of the cost, the state’s contribution would be 35 per cent, with the prospective industry partner pitching in with the remaining 15 per cent.

Land would be provided by the state free of cost. “We have forwarded a proposal to the revenue department. About 50 acres have been identified at Kanke, near the proposed National University for Study & Research in Law (NUSRL) campus,” he said.

Meanwhile, in another boost for the state’s IT sector, a memorandum is going to be signed in Ranchi tomorrow for setting up a Software Technology Park of India (STPI) in Adityapur, the second in the state after the one in the capital. The latest STPI would come up on a sprawling 3.5 acre campus in the industrial area in Seraikela-Kharsawan district. Besides providing land, the state will also provide a one-time grant to the new technology park.

The memorandum would be signed by IT secretary Singh and STPI (Guwahati) director P.R. Das during a workshop on national e-governance, which would be attended by officials of the department of information technology, government of India and Nasscom, among others.

During the workshop, authorities would review the progress made by the state so far in different NeGP mission mode projects, which have been implemented by various departments over the last couple of years.

Through the NeGP mission mode projects, mandatory computerisation projects undertaken by the Centre as well as state governments are implemented. While subjects like passport and income tax receipts are the Centre’s jurisdiction, the state’s responsibility includes registration, transport, commercial taxes, functioning of treasuries etc.

Article Link: http://www.indiaretailing.com/news.aspx?topic=1&Id=6101


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Spread across over 1,00,000 sq.ft. of space, LMB Springcity - a mall by real estate developer LMB SONS, is set to be operational by September 2011 in Ranchi. Located in Hinoo, the mall is centrally located in the heart of the city.

The GLA of the mall is approximately 50,000 sq.ft. The mall includes G+5 of retail space which has a food and entertainment zone and a three screen multiplex on the fourth floor. In addition, the mall has close to 18,000 sq.ft of parking space in basement, and around 20,000 sq.ft of additional surface parking. Gitanjali Lifestyle being the anchor store is coming to Ranchi for the first time along with Fun Cinemas.

"LMB Springcity is a destination to have an enjoyable shopping experience in Ranchi for the customers seeking branded products" said, Sanjeev Gupta, Director, LMB Sons.

The mall is focused primarily on creating a complete family destination for shopping and recreation.

Article Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Multi-storey-fish-market-in-capital/articleshow/9707604.cms


The mention of a fish market conjures images of chaos and noise. But the state fisheries department is set to give a provide an all new perception about a fish market here. It has planned a hi-tech multi-storey mall which will sell all varieties of fish, from fresh water to those from the sea.
The building will have sections for storage, wholesale and retail. Space will be allotted to companies, self-help groups and individuals.

Director of fisheries, Rajiv Kumar, said the government wants to bring about a positive change in the lives of fishermen and those associated with the business.

To begin with, fishermen were helped to expand their business and today production in the state has reached around 70,000 tonnes against the annual production of 14,000 tonnes a decade back. However, fish production is still much less than the annual consumption in the state, which is around 1.15 lakh tonnes.

Recently, the department started the scheme of providing uniform to fishermen so that they are easily identified.
"Now we are working on a project that will change people's perception about a fish market.
Our fish mall will be hygienic and organized. Fish lovers will love to shop here as they will get almost every variety of fish. Even dressed and frozen fish will be available at competitive prices," said Kumar.

The department has sought design details from architects. It is expected to come up in the Dhurwa locality.

Article Link: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-08-21/ranchi/29911417_1_abhijeet-group-investors-videocon-industries-limited


The government has asked Videocon Industries Limited and AVI Hospitality along with 33 other proposed investors to be present at a review meeting on August 24 and 25 to discuss the hurdles faced by them in implementing their projects.

Both the companies had recently expressed interest in investing money in the state. While Videocon is interested in setting up their project in Ranchi and Saraikela-Kharsawan districts, Mumbai-based AVI Hospitality is willing to pump in money at Dhanbad, Parasnath and Deoghar.

Sources in the state industry department said according to initial information provided by AVI Hospitality, the company wanted to invest around Rs 50 crore, which would provide direct employment to around 300 people.

Article Link: http://twocircles.net/2011aug25/jharkhand_construct_flats_displaced_people.html


Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda Thursday laid the foundation stone in Ranchi to construct 856 flats for those poor people who were displaced during a demolition drive in January.

"We had promised to provide houses for poor displaced people. Today we have started work on it. These flats will be provided to the displaced people. There is need to revise the master plan of Ranchi to make Ranchi a beautiful city where everyone could be accommodated," said Munda after laying the foundation stone at Rudigadda of Ranchi.

Under the rehabilitation plan, the state government announced to provide small flats to displaced people. On the Jharkhand High Court directive a demolition drive was launched in January this year in many districts, including Ranchi. Thousands of people were rendered homeless and five people protesting the demolition drive were killed in police firing in Ranchi and Dhanbad.

Article Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Multi-storey-fish-market-in-capital/articleshow/9707604.cms


:rofl:

Something about this headline...Multi storey fish market.

:rofl:

Something about this headline...Multi storey fish market.
Haha...lets see how many stories (scam ones) get attached with this project now .....hahahaha :nuts::nuts: Should have rather said Multi-level to avoid confusions.

Article Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110826/jsp/frontpage/story_14425812.jsp


The Kanke area of Ranchi district, 14km from the state capital, is all set to become Jharkhand’s knowledge hub with the government today deciding to allot plots to four national institutes, some of which have been functioning from temporary campuses.

The state revenue department today transferred 63.79 acres to the HRD department for a permanent campus of National University for Study & Research in Law (NUSRL), while the process to transfer another 150 acres in Nagri mouza in the vicinity for IIM-Ranchi and a proposed Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) would be finalised within a week.

Hence, within the next two years, Kanke will be home to these three institutes and also a Central University of Jharkhand (CUJ) that is now working out of a building in Brambe.

Special secretary in the state revenue and land reforms department A.K. Rastogi said 63.79 acres had been transferred to the HRD department in anticipation of a cabinet approval in the near future.

“Within a week, we will also finalise the process for IIM and IIIT, while it will take some time to process land records for CUJ,” he told The Telegraph.

The foundation stone for NUSRL was laid by chief minister Arjun Munda and then chief justice Bhagwati Prasad on May 12 at the site. But the ceremony was organised in haste without officially transferring the land to NUSRL.

Local villagers, who alleged they had been denied adequate compensation against the land acquired from them in the 1950s for Birsa Agriculture University (BAU), are, however, opposed to the government’s move to allocate land for the law cradle.

That, government officials conceded, could turn out to be nagging problem. Kanke circle officer Sanjay Kumar said while several villagers had accepted compensation, quite a few hadn’t. “Compensation based on old rates is lying with the treasury. We request villagers to part with their land for a good cause,” he said.

NUSRL functions out of a building belonging to BIT-Mesra, while its students, almost half of whom are girls, have been provided accommodation in various places across the capital.

Vice-chancellor A.K. Koul said they would be engaging a reputed architect. “We have set aside Rs 50 crore for a campus with world class infrastructure,” he said.

The wait for a permanent campus for the central university has been the longest. It started classes in 2009 but has been functioning out of a temporary campus provided by the state panchayati raj department in Brambe, about 25km from Ranchi on the way to Daltonganj.

IIM-Ranchi, which started offering postgraduate management courses from 2010, is functioning out of rooms provided by the state government at Suchana Bhavan and Khel Gaon.

The proposed IIIT is still at a nascent stage.

Earlier, there was a plan to allot land to IIM-Ranchi and IIIT in neighbouring Khunti district where the state wanted to set up a “knowledge city”. Now, it seems the district will be used to set up other campuses expected to come up through private as well as government initiatives.

Article Link: http://machinist.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3687&Itemid=2


Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC), Ranchi has begun dispatching its new generation CNC Under Floor Wheel Lathe machine, which was ordered by the Central Organization For Modernization of Workshops (COFMOW). The first machine, out of the 7 ordered, has been thoroughly inspected by RITES and is all set to be commissioned.

The 2nd machine of the series is also ready and will be offered for inspection to RITES within a week. In addition to this, the company's new generation CNC Surface Wheel Lathe for CLW, Chittaranjan also was inspected and cleared for dispatch by a team of Inspecting Engineers from CLW this month.
This machine has been developed and manufactured in association with Hegenscheidt of Germany for the 1st time in India by Heavy Machine Tools Plant (HMTP) of HEC, Ranchi.

G K Pillai, CMD, HEC expressed his happiness & said that the rest 6 machines should be supplied in time so that customer confidence is won. On this occasion, a small function was organized at HMTP amidst all senior officers and staff.

This new generation CNC Under Floor Wheel lathe machine requires minimum operator's interference as the machine is fully automatic. The machine decides the optimum metal removal for maximum Wheel set life. It offers highest accuracy, is less prone to human error, is highly productive and ensures better accuracy of Wheel profile.

The Indian Railway Workshops were earlier equipped with old generation conventional Under Floor Wheel Lathe Machines. The performance of these machines were dependent more on the skill of operator for metal removal and achieving profile. This resulted in less Wheel life in the earlier generation machines.

The new generation automatic CNC Under Floor Wheel lathe Machine is expected to improve the life of Railway Wheel sets by around 20% to 30% with minimum operator interference. With the use of this machine, Indian Railways will be able to manage its Rolling Stock in more efficient & productive manner.

With this HEC has strengthened its position as a solution provider for Rolling Stock.

Article Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110901/jsp/jharkhand/story_14450060.jsp


An Adhunik Group initiative to set up a first-of-its-kind plant in Jharkhand will soon ensure that the mineral-rich state does not lose out on profiting from low-grade iron ore.

The beneficiation-cum-pelletisation unit, which is nearing completion, will utilise low-grade iron ore or fines as the main raw material.

Pelletisation plants use fines or iron ore wastes to make pellets with high ferrous content that can be used by steel makers.

Similarly, beneficiation is a process by which low-grade iron ore is used for manufacturing steel.

The proposed plant, which will have a processing capacity of 1.2 million tonne per annum, will effectively guarantee that the state benefits from value addition to the ore through employment generation.

A recent decision of the state cabinet allowed captive mines in West Singhbhum, belonging to Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and Usha Martin Limited, to dispose of over 200 lakh tonne fines lying in their stock yards.

Interestingly, a notification issued by the state mines and geology department on February 4, 2006, reveals that only those companies, which add value to mineral mined within the state, would be allotted lease.

Senior executive president of Adhunik Group A. Prasad told The Telegraph that they had requested SAIL to supply low-grade iron ore that is not being utilised by the steel PSU.

“Moreover, we have recently written letters to the chief minister, deputy chief minister (Hemant Soren, who holds mines portfolio) and the mines secretary to intervene in the matter and ensure the local company gets raw material on a priority basis,” he added.

Prasad said the beneficiation-cum-pelletisation plant is located in Kandra, Seraikela-Kharsawan district. It is expected to employ around 500 workers.

The company, however, is managing to get roughly around 25,000 tonne of iron ore fines per month against its requirement of about three lakh tonne (when the plant becomes operational and start production to its full capacity) from mines located along the Jharkhand-Orissa border.

A company of the group, Adhunik Metaliks Limited, also has a unit near Rourkela in Orissa while another subsidiary, Orissa Manganese and Minerals Private Limited, is also engaged in mining activities. Besides, Adhunik Alloys & Power Limited has a plant in Kandra with a capacity to process 350 tonne of iron ore per day.

Adhunik Group, which is headquartered in Calcutta, is also vying for mines in West Singhbhum.

Prasad added that they aimed to start the new plant within a week. “We have applied to get a consent from the state pollution control board to start it,” he said.

thats nice:banana:

any buddy can post the latest pic of u/c centenary mall (progress report)..

any buddy have any update about silvercage mall at jamshedpur.......

any buddy can post the latest pic of u/c centenary mall (progress report)..

Here is the latest on Centenary Mall

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More Updates and Info (http://www.nkrealtors.com/viewDetails1.php?ProId=9)

thanks a lot bro....^^

nice 2 see the progress...^^

Here is the latest on Centenary Mall

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More Updates and Info (http://www.nkrealtors.com/viewDetails1.php?ProId=9)

i m heared this mall is opens at the end of 2012:cheers:

any buddy have any update about silvercage mall at jamshedpur.......

Sorry dude...i know there is a wrong news reg. silvercage mall:ohno:. First of all it is not a mall just a building, dont know why they added mall to it. It is just opposite to dominos pizza on diagonal road(the angled road starting frm chaganlal showroom).

After seeing the photos of centenary mall i am a little confused. In the third and fourth pics there are barriers clearly visible on the left end of the site. Now just beside it and more towards the adityapur end there is another building coming up. What is that, the last time i saw it had already risen to one floor and the steel rod suggested it will be quite tall.

Any one has any news on that thing?

Moreover the sites of FORUM projects and NK realtors shows different layouts which one is correct?

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Article Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ranchi/Vertical-accent-in-blueprint-of-IIM-R-Nagri-campus/articleshow/9927694.cms

Looks like a pretty decent campus plan :banana:

Unfazed by the government decision to reduce land allotment from 214 acres to 76 acres, Indian Institute of Management-Ranchi is set to come up with the country's finest infrastructure in Nagri utilizing the 76-acre plot.

With a well-planned idea to revamp classroom-teaching and bridge the gap between traditional learning and technology-based learning, the institute has planned to come up with e-age classrooms better described as studios. About 60 per cent of the classrooms will be electronically equipped and enable students to attend lectures from remote locations.

Sharing the ideas with the media here on Friday, director IIM-R M J Xavier said the institute had decided to make optimum use of the available space and sought permission from the state to utilize vertical space more than lateral space.

"Out of the 75-acre plot, construction will be carried out on 45 acres and the remaining 30 acres will be left open for future utilization," he said.

Though the institute is yet to hire the services of a professional consultant, the blueprint of the campus is ready as per requirements of the institute.

To begin with, the main institute building will be six-storey, while the hostel blocks will be 10-storey each. There will be 2,000 separate rooms in 8-10 different hostel blocks meant for the students whereas 500 furnished flats will be constructed for faculty members and other employees. An auditorium with a sitting capacity of 2,000 and other essential buildings will also be constructed.

The main attraction of the campus will be classrooms. Out of the 30 classrooms, 20 will be converted into two-way communicating studios.

"A lecture being given by a teacher and students attending the real classroom will be electronically available anywhere in the world as the live video will be beamed through broadband platform," said Xavier.

He further said that talks are on with connectivity providers like Airtel and Reliance to lay the foundation for the country's wide connectivity extendible to foreign countries.

"We believe that in a technologically-advanced society, a student need not be present in the classroom to attend a lecture or raise queries and to solve that bottleneck we have decided to link all hostel rooms with the lecture hall," he said, further clarifying that the interactive video could be accessed using laptops or palm tops connected to the internet or even on 3G-enabled mobile phones.

"Within six months of construction of the infrastructure we will start our experiment to link up hostel rooms with lecture halls and give mobile access to the students to verify if countrywide networking could be started for better interaction," he added.

The institute is all set to begin construction of a boundary wall next month.

Sorry dude...i know there is a wrong news reg. silvercage mall:ohno:. First of all it is not a mall just a building, dont know why they added mall to it. It is just opposite to dominos pizza on diagonal road(the angled road starting frm chaganlal showroom).

thanks buddy:)

A very nice addition to the capital..:banana:
Article Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110913/jsp/jharkhand/story_14497448.jsp


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The new buildings of the sadar hospital in Ranchi are near completion. The Red building in the picture is the existing Sadar Hospital.

In six month’s time, Ranchi will boast a 500-bed hospital that can rival Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in terms of service and facilities with work on upgrading the existing sadar hospital on in full swing.

A visit to the construction site spread over 10 acres near Albert Ekka Chowk on Monday afternoon revealed that all the floors of the 11-storeyed main hospital, 10-storeyed doctors’ hostel and seven-storeyed ward building were complete. Work was on to install wooden fixtures like doors and windows.

Engineers supervising the work at the spot said once the woodwork was completed, the process of giving final touches to the hospital would start. Installing the wiring, sanitary fittings, sewerage system, air-conditioners and power sub-stations would be completed by March 2012 when the buildings would be handed over for proper use.

“The work is being carried out under the supervision of National Building Construction Company Limited, and as many as 700 workers are working round-the-clock to finish the project, which started in 2008, on schedule. The estimated cost of the project is around Rs 131 crore,” an engineer who did not wish to be named said.

Another engineer present at the site said the hospital will be one of its kind in the state once complete, equipped as it would be with every modern facility.

“There will be basements in the main hospital and ward building with space for parking more than 400 vehicles while at the doctors’ hostel, parking space will be provided on the ground floor. The main hospital building will be centrally air-conditioned, while on the fourth and fifth floor of the ward building, there will be single and double bedrooms with split air-conditioners,” he said.

Also on the drawing board is a landscaped campus, a 600KV power sub-station and 1,250KV generator room. An underground tank with the capacity to hold 6 lakh litres of water will fulfil the requirements of the hospital. The sewerage treatment plant will service the 354 bathrooms. There will also be an auditorium on the ninth floor of the main hospital.

District civil surgeon A.K. Choudhary confirmed the developments and said the work would be completed by March next year, and once the new hospital was in place, it would ease the pressure on RIMS.

“The date scheduled for completion is March 31, 2012. Soon people will have another destination for specialised treatment in the heart of town,” he said. Incidentally, the health department has already started the process of appointing extra medical and paramedical personnel to man the upgraded hospital.

The decision to upgrade the existing 100-bed sadar hospital was taken in 2007.


This is a 2010 Google Earth Image of the Hospital under construction. The size of the structure is pretty big as evident in this satellite pic.
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Article Link: http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/ranchi/5940-jharkhand-first-state-on-gis-water-map.html


Fast depleting water tables in Jharkhand could be a cause for concern but the good news is that the State Government is ready with scientific data and details to tackle the problem.

Jharkhand has now become the first State of the country equipped with a Geographical Information System where information about the water table on the surface and ground in any part of the State can be availed at the click of the mouse.

This ambitious and arduous task was carried by the Jharkhand Space Application Centre which used satellite images to compile accurate details of water bodies across Jharkhand. The programme was supported by the Indian Space Research Organisation.

“We are no more dependent on vague and inaccurate data. We have compiled thorough details pertaining to every part of Jharkhand. One can know about availability of water in a particular area,” JSAC director AT Jeyaseelan said. The sensing technique has been able to locate water available on the surface as well as beneath it upto a depth exceeding 80 metres, Jeyaseelan said.

On Tuesday, Chief Minister Arjun Munda will inaugurate the Automation of Water System and EDUCAT online programming technique of JSAC. AWS is an online system through which surface and underground water positions will be made available. EDUCAT is another online application that will provide necessary contact details and other related information.

A few years ago, efforts were made to identify the ground water prospects at sites in the Lower Sanjai Watershed of Kolhan division based on GIS techniques and satellite mapping. But the current achievement is significant in magnitude.

While remote sensing and GIS have proved to be pathbreaking in getting actual status of volumes of water it is going to help the State Government in a big way in its further plans of systematic urban development and water supply. Now the Government has decided to make this data available to the key departments like agriculture, drinking water and sanitation and water resources. The Government has decided to maintain a data bank at each block and district headquarters of Jharkhand with specific details of the surface and ground water scenario, which will be of immense help to the local public in searching water sources within the available land area.

“It will help us immensely in ascertaining the location of a bore-well in a particular area. It will also help in pinpointing the area where the water table has fallen drastically. The department is in the process of receiving data very soon. To a large extent, it will minimise the cases of tube wells and hand pumps running dry in a short span of time,” Principal Secretary, Drinking Water and Sanitation Department, Sudhir Prasad, said.

Article Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110916/jsp/jharkhand/story_14513031.jsp

Pretty encouraging for our talented Tribal artisans :banana::banana::banana:

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Bengal minister Manas Ranjan Bhunia
at the store in Calcutta on Thursday

Jharcraft made its second ripple in Calcutta on Thursday with a new store, but the big splash was its announcement of going global with stores soon to come up at Michigan in the US and Mauritius.

The second store at Calcutta’s Narendrapur — the first is at the upscale Camac Street — was inaugurated by Manas Ranjan Bhunia, Bengal minister of state for micro and small-scale enterprises, textiles and irrigation, who praised Jharcraft’s efforts to help the tribal population in Jharkhand. The store follows ones in Ranchi, New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune and Ahmedabad.

Now, Jharcraft managing director Dhirendra Kumar wants the brand to travel offshore. “Next year, we will open our first two international stores in Michigan in US and Mauritius on franchisee basis. Talks are in an advanced stage,” Kumar said.

What were his expectations from the new outlet? “High”, Kumar said, as Calcutta was receptive to Jharcraft’s products. “Buoyed by the response to our first outlet at Camac Street, we decided to open this second store ,” Kumar said, adding Narendrapur was an upcoming area in south Calcutta that they wanted to explore.

The inaugural day saw visitors at the store in browse-and-buy mode for the upcoming Durga Puja.

Silks — Jharcraft’s forte — arrested the attention of women. “I’m trying to choose between three saris,” smiled Madhumita Ghosh, a teacher visiting the store. Homemaker Sabita Chakladar confessed that despite her Durga Puja shopping being over, she couldn’t resist picking up a silk kurti.

For girls, lac bangles and dokra jewellery were pop picks.

A unique feature of the store is bamboo furniture. “In our latest venture, we’re using treated bamboo for modular furniture,” Kumar said, adding 200-odd artisans in districts were engaged in this.

The recently launched pearl sets will also be available at the store. “We found out from a survey that consumers in the East and Northeast prefer pearl jewellery,” added Kumar. For a wider choice, Jharcraft stores have a system in which customers can pick products from the catalogue, too. “We may open a warehouse in Calcutta, too,” said Kumar.

Article Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110916/jsp/jharkhand/story_14513159.jsp

Pretty Nice addition to Jamshedpur :cheers:


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The site of Marine Plaza in Sonari


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A model of the retail-cum-hotel address.


It’s official now. Ashiana Housing Limited, a leading realty player in the region, has roped in Hyatt Hotels Corporation for setting up a four-star hotel in Marine Plaza, an ambitious shopping-cum-hospitality project that will debut in April, 2014.

On Friday, Tata Steel managing director H.M. Nerurkar will lay the foundation stone of the much-awaited Rs 50-crore luxe address that will come up on the banks of Subernarekha on Marine Drive, Sonari.

Speaking to The Telegraph on Thursday, managing director of Ashiana Housing Limited Vishal Gupta confirmed they had entered into an agreement with Hyatt Hotels Corporation for setting up Hyatt Place Hotel.

“Jamshedpur is an important market for us. This tie-up with Hyatt Hotels for management and marketing of our four-star business hotel is aimed at offering the best dining experience to customers. The brand of Hyatt will further help us create a niche for Marine Plaza,” said Gupta.

A seven-storey building spread over 1.80 lakh square feet will go by the name of Marine Plaza. While over 80 outlets of premium brands will take up the ground and first floor, the remaining five floors will be dedicated to Hyatt Place, which will have 120 rooms. It will also boast a swimming pool, gym, business centre, conference and meeting rooms.

Bookings have already begun for the retail shops.

“Marine Plaza’s location is its advantage. The retail-cum-hotel destination is strategically situated at a prime and most exclusive location on Marine Drive. Several residential and commercial areas like Circuit House, Mango, Bistupur and Sonari, along with educational institutions like XLRI, are a stone’s throw away. Naturally, we hope that there will be a huge footfall,” Gupta said.

Ashiana Housing Limited is well known in the steel city. Since its inception in 1985, it has come up with several well-designed housing projects in Jamshedpur and its adjoining areas.

The group first entered the hospitality market with The Treehouse Hotel & Club at Bhiwadi in Delhi NCR. However, Marine Plaza will be its first retail-cum-hotel project in the steel city.

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This pic looks.... OMG...awesome!!!

Ashiana ties with the Hyatt group for a 4 star hotel at its marine plaza at marine drive in Jamshedpur

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Bindal Mall.....coming soon @ Jamshedpur (Marine Drive)

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Article Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110924/jsp/jharkhand/story_14547348.jsp



Jindal Steel & Power Limited (JSPL) is ready to launch a 1.2 million tonne capacity TMT bar mill in Patratu next week, promising a milestone in Jharkhand’s journey towards industrialisation.

Chief minister Arjun Munda will inaugurate the mill in the neighbouring district of Ramgarh on Wednesday. The new unit, along with its existing three million tonne per annum capacity wire rod mill, will bring in an investment of Rs 2,000 crore from the group owned by Congress MP from Kurukshetra Naveen Jindal.

State industry secretary A.P. Singh confirmed the development, adding that Jindal had recently met Munda as well as senior bureaucrats extending welcome for the inaugural ceremony.

“This will be another big achievement for Jharkhand as far as attracting investments in the industry sector is concerned,” Singh told The Telegraph.

JSPL sources added that JMM chief Shibu Soren and deputy chief ministers Sudesh Mahto and Hemant Soren were likely to attend the inaugural function.

JSPL had signed MoUs with the state government in 2005 and 2007 to set up two steel mills and power plants each. The steel mills were proposed in Patratu and Asanboni (under Potka block of East Singhbhum) while the power projects were proposed in Godda and Dumka.

A Jindal group company, Jindal Power Limited, had proposed to set up 2,600 MW power plants in the two districts of Santhal Pargana.

JSPL had also been allotted mines in Jaraldaburu (70MT), West Singhbhum, in a 537-acre area and coal blocks at Jeetpur in Godda and Amarkonda in Dumka.

However, JSPL has been able to make a sizeable progress only in its Patratu venture after it received over 550 acres, that were in possession of an ailing Bihar Alloys & Steel Limited (BASL). Land related issues have often been stumbling blocks for the company to increase its presence in Jharkhand.

A JSPL source conceded that the group was also interested in setting up a blast furnace and coke oven facility at the Patratu plant but they had not been able to get the required extent of land, including a township, for the purpose.

The TMT bar mill would supply a wide range of products across India as well as to offshore destinations, a JSPL source added.

Crossposting from Ranchi Cityscapes


Google has updated the pic for part of Southern Ranchi.
Here is the status of the under construction Cricket Stadium in HEC. One can also view the Indoor Practice Facility (Building with JSCA printed on the roof).
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After seeing the photos of centenary mall i am a little confused. In the third and fourth pics there are barriers clearly visible on the left end of the site. Now just beside it and more towards the adityapur end there is another building coming up. What is that, the last time i saw it had already risen to one floor and the steel rod suggested it will be quite tall.

Any one has any news on that thing?

Moreover the sites of FORUM projects and NK realtors shows different layouts which one is correct?

http://www.nkrealtors.com/project_images1/Jamshedpur_plaza_view_19.jpg

Thanks for sharing the infor and renders.
Can you let us know at above image is of Marine Plaza mall or Cenetery mall or someting new?

So, Ranchi is getting a new stadium? They must follow it up with a golf course and an amusement park too:)

JSPL to invest Rs 1 lakh cr in Jharkhand (http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/jspl-to-invest-rs-1-lakh-cr-in-jharkhand/147767/on)



Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL) today said it planned to invest about Rs 1,00,000 crore in Jharkhand to set up two steel plants of 11 million tonne annual capacity by 2016, along with 6,600 MW power plants.

Of this, a steel bar mill of 1.2 million tonne per annum capacity in Patratu was commissioned today by Chief Minister Arjun Munda and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader Shibu Soren, the company said in a statement.

It added that a steel plate mill of 0.6 million tonne per annum is already operational in Patratu, where the JSPL intends to set up an integrated steel mill of total 6 million tonne capacity by second half of 2015.
"Both the mills form an integral part of our 6 million tonne integrated steel plant being set up at Patratu with an investment of over Rs 25,000 crore," the statement said.

Besides this, JSPL also has plans to set up another 5 million tonne capacity steel plant at Asanboni in East Singhbhum district in the state which is expected to be commissioned by 2016, it added.

Talking about setting up power plants in Jharkhand, the company said that two plants of 1320 MW each at Dumka and Godda is also on the anvil. It, however, did not give the proposed investment on the power plants and by when it will get commissioned.

Moreover, Jindal Power, a subsidiary of JSPL, is coming up with 2,640 MW power plant in Simdega in the state, while a separate group firm is setting up a 1,320 MW plant in Jharkhand, the company statement said.

"The total investment outlay for Jharkhand is over Rs 1,00,000 crore which upon successfully commissioning will provide direct and indirect employment to more than 75,000 persons," it added.

Stating that this would be the single largest investment in the Eastern state, company's Managing Director Naveen Jindal said, "We are happy to be a partner in the progress of Jharkhand. The plant will provide gainful employment in the state and will also help in the economic and infrastructure development of the region."

So, Ranchi is getting a new stadium? They must follow it up with a golf course and an amusement park too:)

Yes, It is a big stadium with 40,000+ Capacity. Also BCCI is planning a Ind-WI One Dayer in December here (if they get final NOC)...but construction is in full swing and is also on target. This will be an essential addition to Ranchi.
There's only one modest Golf-Course in Ranchi that too owned by the Army. I am not sure of any other plans.
Ranchi does have a very small, near to amuesment park (Fun Castle in Ratu). Truely its more like a moving "Mela Disneyland" than a true amusement park, but they have lots of space and a decent lake inside, so it can be developed nicely.

The Expressway man is here

Ranchi, Sept. 29: Chief minister’s new adviser R.C. Sinha is aghast that it took him seven hours to drive 130km to Ranchi from Jamshedpur the other day.

He is entitled to be cheesed off. For, the senior bureaucrat, who took up his new assignment a couple of days back, is the architect of the world-class Mumbai-Pune Expressway, where motorists driving at a modest 80kmph are able to do the 110km stretch within 85 minutes.

His prescription, therefore, is an expressway for Jharkhand. “My immediate priority is to advise the government to go for developing a six-lane expressway with no crossings. All roads touching it should either cross over or pass under,” he told The Telegraph in an exclusive interview today.

“It (the expressway) may be Ranchi to Patna or Jamshedpur or Bokaro. It is for the government to decide.”

Sinha believes the basic problem plaguing Jharkhand is the huge deficiency of infrastructure, which shows in the poor development of the state. “If we are able to provide good infrastructure and have a proactive government in place, development will follow,” said the 1962 batch Maharashtra cadre IAS officer.

A former chief of Maharashtra Airport Development Company, Sinha, who is from Rae Bareilly in UP, retired from the IAS in 1996 and thereafter headed Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) when BJP chief Nitin Gadkari was state PWD minister.

No wonder, Arjun Munda is banking on him to change the face of Jharkhand.

“My brief is to monitor major projects involving roads, industries, power, water and airport every month and suggest to the government the kind of intervention needed to give them a push to complete them in time. I will be submitting monthly reports to the chief minister,” he said.

So far the state government has been making the right noises, allocating a whopping Rs 1,700 crore for developing roads and Rs 1,600 crore for the power sector in this year’s budget.

“Transport is a basic requirement for development. We may use roads for carrying goods up to 300km. There should be competition between roads and railways within distances between 300km and 500km.”

With Jharkhand having only one airport in Ranchi, Sinha’s work is cut out. “We can help Airport Authority of India (AAI) to implement its projects, while we will go for public-private partnerships for state government’s airport projects at Dumka, Dhanbad and other towns. If we have to attract industrialists, we will locate airports near industries,” he said.

Sinha believes there should be no compromise with quality of ongoing national highway projects. “If our engineers aren’t competent enough we should hire technocrats from outside.”

He is also unwilling to accept heavy rainfall (around 40 inches) as an excuse for bad roads. “We have 120 inches of rainfall in Lonavala and yet the roads are intact,” he said.

Sinha has an enviable track record. He has responded to the call of former Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and executed several projects that include an international exhibition centre, a project to bring water from the Nagarjunasagar to Hyderabad city, a garment zone, biotech park, flyovers, and Cybercity.

He is also a hard task master and admits not all officers would be happy having him around. “When I ask them (officers) to come to the office on time and advise the government to introduce a biometric system of attendance, I may face resistance. But ultimately these things get sorted out.”

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110930/jsp/frontpage/story_14571295.jsp

Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110930/jsp/frontpage/story_14571293.jsp


Capital residents will get two extra pairs of wings next month.

Drawn by demand for more flying options, private airline GoAir has decided to launch its services in the Ranchi-Delhi sector from October 8.

Kingfisher, which already operates in the sector, will start a morning flight from October 30.

The GoAir flight will take off from Delhi at 5.20pm and reach here at 7pm. On its return path, it will take off from Birsa airport at 7.30pm and reach Delhi at 9.10pm.

“Ranchi has emerged as a top tier-III city. We will offer connections to Mumbai via Delhi in days to come,” said a GoAir official.

Currently, there are four flights in the Ranchi-Delhi sector — two operated by Air India and one each by Jet Airways and Kingfisher.

However, late evening hours and morning hours after 8am are never busy as far as air traffic is concerned. This room is being eyed by airlines.

Kingfisher officials said that the number of fliers to the national capital from Ranchi had increased manifold over the years and hence the airline had decided on its second service in this sector.

The Expressway man is here

Ranchi, Sept. 29: Chief minister’s new adviser R.C. Sinha is aghast that it took him seven hours to drive 130km to Ranchi from Jamshedpur the other day.

He is entitled to be cheesed off. For, the senior bureaucrat, who took up his new assignment a couple of days back, is the architect of the world-class Mumbai-Pune Expressway, where motorists driving at a modest 80kmph are able to do the 110km stretch within 85 minutes.
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No wonder, Arjun Munda is banking on him to change the face of Jharkhand.

“My brief is to monitor major projects involving roads, industries, power, water and airport every month and suggest to the government the kind of intervention needed to give them a push to complete them in time. I will be submitting monthly reports to the chief minister,” he said.

So far the state government has been making the right noises, allocating a whopping Rs 1,700 crore for developing roads and Rs 1,600 crore for the power sector in this year’s budget.

“Transport is a basic requirement for development. We may use roads for carrying goods up to 300km. There should be competition between roads and railways within distances between 300km and 500km.”

With Jharkhand having only one airport in Ranchi, Sinha’s work is cut out. “We can help Airport Authority of India (AAI) to implement its projects, while we will go for public-private partnerships for state government’s airport projects at Dumka, Dhanbad and other towns. If we have to attract industrialists, we will locate airports near industries,” he said.
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110930/jsp/frontpage/story_14571295.jsp

This report seems a bit off, I currently takes 4 Hrs max to reach Tata from Ranchi (Some stretches in between are in real bad shape, but most of it has been good, specially when compared to roads from 10Yrs back :bash:) ..However, an Expressway which has been planned and I think Under - Construction between Barhi - Ranchi needs to be expedited an implemented. It would be really nice to have wide 6 lane roads like the Ranchi Ring Road and reach Tata in 2.5 Hrs max.

To give an idea I am X-Posting from Ranchi Cityscape thread

Google has updated a portion of Southern part of Ranchi.
We can now clearly see some development in 2 phases of the prestigious Ring Road Project. :banana::banana:

Look at the sheer width of the Road when compared to the Ranchi - Tata NH 33. This interesection is near Rampur in Namkom area.. There is a Highway overpass planned here, but no sign of construction yet :ohno:
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This is between Namkom and Tupudana (South East of Ranchi Airport's Rwy 31 end) This chunk currently ends at the Lodhma station area in Hatia - Rourkela section (near Tupudana Industrial Area)
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Chinia Road, Garhwa, Jharkhand, India

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Article Link: http://cricket.yahoo.com/cricket/news/article?id=item/2.0/-/story/cricket.yahoonews.com/jsca-stadium-ready-awaits-green-light-20111007/

:banana::banana::banana: Awesome, a rarity, one of the very few upcoming projects that finished much before time...
Also the official capacity is 35000


With the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) International Stadium, in Ranchi, now ready, the Amitabh Choudhary-headed JSCA is awaiting green light from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to host a one-day International during West Indies' forthcoming tour of India.

The venue will also need the International Cricket Council's okay.


One understands that BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale, Cricket Operations manager Suru Nayak and Ground and Pitches Committee chairman Venkat Sundaram will be making an inspection of the stadium as early as next week.

The stadium, which has already hosted Ranji Trophy matches (2010-11 season), is the latest of international standards in the region and has been got ready in fairly quick time.

The very first excavation for foundations began on June 19, 2009 and so, work has been completed in a little over two years' time. The entire JSCA International Stadium Complex, which houses the stadium, is expected to cost about 140 crores.

The 35000 capacity stadium has five viewing levels on the North and South Pavilions. These two pavilions includes corporate boxes, VVIP terrace, VVIP lounges, Members' Enclosure, Donors' Enclosure, President's Box and BCCI Box, apart from two large dressing rooms with separate dining spaces, and boxes for commentators, ICC Match Referee/Vigilance, Match Observer, Third/Fourth Umpires.

Ranchi has really gotten nice Sporting Infrastructure in the recent years (thanks to National Games).
Ranchi is also a stand-by center for an International Hockey Tournament to be held in the coming few weeks in India across multiple locations. It all depends upon the preparedness of Mumbai's stadium.

With so many high-end sporting structures, Ranchi can claim to be one of the most important centers for multi disciplinary sporting events (and now Cricketing too).. Wish this Ind-WI match does happen here.

^^super like....

TATANAGAR/JAMSHEDPUR station's second entrance work from burmamines begins....

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110926/jsp/jharkhand/story_14553068.jsp

"The Chakradharpur railway division has set a July 2012 date for the opening of Tatanagar railway station’s second entrance, which authorities hope will decongest South Eastern Railway’s second busiest station after Howrah with a daily footfall of 45,000 passengers and the only A-list station under Chakradharpur.

Confirming that the gateway would make a July 2012 debut, Chakradharpur divisional railway manager Achal Khare said work on the new entrance had already begun. “A major activity is the second entrance point from the Burmamines-end, work for which has already begun. We have a lot of plans for Tatanagar,” he said.

Tatanagar station manager A.K. Agarwal said the engineering and construction wing of railways had prepared a blueprint of the new project. “The second entry to Tatanagar is an ambitious project for sure. Necessary efforts will be made to ensure that the project gets complete within the stipulated deadline,” added Agarwal.

Various facilities including ticket counters, parking space and public lavatories will come up at the Burmamines-end. A proposed foot overbridge from the Burmamines end will connect different platforms."

Rs 1323cr for traffic freeway

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110423/jsp/jharkhand/story_13891082.jsp

" Tata Steel today unveiled an ambitious road decongestion master plan that aims to facilitate safe, uninterrupted and smooth movement of goods and passenger vehicles in the city through long-term sustainable measures.

The objective is to directly link the arterial NH-33 and state highway networks with the city and major industrial units through dedicated eastern and western corridors by January 2014.

Unveiling the master plan at Beldih Club here today, Sanjiv Paul, vice-president (corporate services), said the steel major would invest around Rs 1,323 crore for the project.

“We propose to develop a self-sustainable project, which includes development of road corridors and city bypass in Jamshedpur in partnership with the state government on a PPP model through an appropriate institutional framework,” he said.

Tata Steel managing director H.M. Nerurkar and other senior company officials and heads of associate companies were present on the occasion. Local MLAs, trade union leaders, senior citizens and other opinion makers were also invited to the programme to discuss infrastructure and traffic, which is a major cause of concern for all.

Paul said the master plan had been submitted to the government and they were waiting for approval. “If things fall in place, the project will be completed by January 2014.”

The master plan involves construction of a dedicated corridor (eastern) directly connecting the steel city and its satellite areas, including major industrial hubs, with NH-33 by constructing a third bridge over river Subernarekha. A western peripheral road connecting Power House-3 with the Adityapur toll bridge (western corridor) will complete the proposed freeway.

The project also includes strengthening and widening of city roads including one at Bistupur, a commercial hub, and creation of parking complexes at NH-33, Jugsalai Muckdump and other places.


He maintained that their aim was to fulfil this vision. “Tata Steel will soon become a 10 million tonne company, which will result in increased road load. Hence, this decongestion project,” he said.

Expressing concern over lack of air-connectivity and restriction of passenger trains at night for more than eight months, Nerurkar said it was causing immense problems for the company’s customers and suppliers. He revealed that Tata Steel board had also granted necessary sanction for a new airport.

Notably, the steel major has spent about Rs 250 crore for construction, widening and repair of city roads during 2005-10.

Article Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111012/jsp/jharkhand/story_14613994.jsp

:banana::banana: Yippie, 3rd Multiplex for Ranchi (FYI: This mall has been built in place of the old Uphaar Theatre (Ratu Road).


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Jamshedpur and Dhanbad can go green with envy (funny statement), entertainment in Ranchi is all set to go psychedelic soon.

Popkorn, the capital’s third — and arguably the most “homelike” — multiplex is all set to debut at the five-storey Galaxia mall, newly built on an acre on Ratu Road, with a bouquet of Bollywood blockbusters after Diwali.

The sprawling movie hub — 10,000sqft floor area for its two screens alone — promises to be a paradise for cine buffs and gourmets alike with an integrated VIP lounge and gold class, and a 5,000sqft food court.

A play zone for children will ensure that parents can remain glued to their comfortable seats till the movie ends. The complex also has 20,000sqft parking lot for more than 100 vehicles at any given time.

Proprietor Vikram Shahdeo said since Ranchi already had two multiplexes (Eylex and Glitz), they decided to make comfort and class their USP. “We have recliner sofas and seats in one screen. The idea is to relax and rewind,” he said.

Popkorn, designed by Mumbai-based architect Sanjay Puri, who has Hotel Capitol Hill and Hotel Capitol Residency to his credit, has a capacity of 480 in its two screens. The gold class has 20 luxury leather seats and 240 reclining seats, all fitted with bells for a paid popcorn service. The standard class has 220 non-reclining seats.

Notably, the three-screen Glitz crowning the nine-storey JD High Street Mall on Main Road has a seating capacity of 750 while Eylex, the state’s first multiplex, can regale 324 at a time.

Divulging ticket prices at Popkorn, Shahdeo said: “You can catch a movie in gold class for Rs 200-300. For the standard screen, you only pay between Rs 80 and Rs 120, the same as other multiplexes.”

The plex is currently in the process of getting its entertainment licence from the government. “We expect it within 15 days. The multiplex will be opened to public after Diwali,” the proprietor confirmed.

While Ranchi is raising three cheers, steel city Jamshedpur and coal town Dhanbad have only one plush plex each. The triple-screen Eylex in Mango was inaugurated before Durga Puja and has a seating capacity of 848. Dhanbad’s lone multiplex Fame in Govindpur Road was opened in 2008 and has four screens for 996 people.

An update on the Ranchi Cricket Stadium (The Ground looks cool to me)..I think some work on the stands is still required :banana::banana:
Link: http://www.cricketcountry.com/cricket-articles/New-stadium-with-world-class-facilities-ready-in-Ranchi-/6564

Similar Article: http://www.sportstaronnet.com/stories/20111020505803800.htm


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A new cricket stadium boasting world-class facilities in Ranchi built by the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) is all set to get international status soon.



The stadium is built within the city limits of Ranchi, the hometown of India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. It is only a 10-minute drive from the Ranchi airport and 25 minutes from a five-star hotel, connected by a four-lane road.


“We will be delighted to host an international match at our own stadium,” JSCA president Amitabh Choudhary told reporters.



The JSCA International Stadium Complex was built in two years at the cost of approx Rs. 140 crores. It has an indoor cricket facility, a tennis academy, club house and many other features.



The stadium has a seating capacity of around 35,000 and 76 corporate boxes. The two pavilions, North and South, have five levels each which include VVIP areas, members' enclosure, donors' enclosure, president's box, the BCCI box and two large dressing rooms with separate dining spaces.


It has commentators’ boxes, rooms for ICC officials and umpires as well. The media centre in the JSCA International Stadium Complex can accommodate 250 journalists.



The complex has 35 guest rooms as well as a club with all the modern facilities.



The stadium has been constructed in such a manner that shadow doesn’t fall on any of the nine pitches before 4.45 p.m, even on the shortest day of the year. There is another ground in the complex which has five main pitches and eight practice pitches.


The spectators can enjoy view from two nearby hills on the East and West sides.



The stadium so far has hosted one Ranji match.

^ ranchi is really going mad with multiplex....:nuts::nuts::nuts:

JSR buck up....Inox and cinepolis will come up in 2012 in addition to the eyelex hope that will give some 'thandak'....after all biggie's come in true grandeur...:cheers:

^ ranchi is really going mad with multiplex....:nuts::nuts::nuts:

JSR buck up....Inox and cinepolis will come up in 2012 in addition to the eyelex hope that will give some 'thandak'....after all biggie's come in true grandeur...:cheers:

I think Glitz Cinemas is already an established big name with more than 7 Locations and 4000 seats spread across North India... However Inox will be a much bigger name. Fame Dhanbad is also from the Adlabs group a big name in Western India.:cheers:

Very encouraging ..Ranchi might be able to host first ever International One Dayer:banana::banana::banana:

Article Link: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/10385904.cms


"This stadium, when completed, will have one of the best amenities for players and it will be one of the fastest-made stadiums of the country," said Choudhary.:banana::banana:



The three-member team of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) headed by secretary Sanjay Jagdale inspected the progress of work at the stadium of the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) and said that they were satisfied with the progress.

Jagdale was accompanied by cricket operations manager Suru Nayak and ground and pitches committee chairman Venkat Sundaram.

"We will be submitting our report to BCCI and it has to take final decision on holding of an international match in the new stadium. Though the ground and pitch conditions look good and pace of work at the stadium is really good," said Jagdale after the two-day visit.

He, however, refused to give the timeline that by when the new stadium will get an opportunity to hold the first international match. "The matches will be held in coming months or sometime later but the facilities and infrastructure created for players at the stadium are one of the best in the country," said Jagdale.

The JSCA was expecting the announcement for an ODI during the West Indies series.

He added that the JSCA has put all its effort and experience in making an international stadium a reality in Ranchi and hopefully very soon it could hold a one-day international cricket match.

Sundaram said that several grounds are being prepared by developing the pitches and outfield, which will give necessary infrastructures to the fast bowlers. "All the countries prepare the grounds and pitches keeping their national interest in mind and BCCI can only give necessary infrastructure but the bowlers have also to produce at the mean time," said Sundaram.

JSCA president Amitabh Choudhary said that excavation work for the stadium had begun in June 2009 and in a little more the two years the work of the stadium is nearing its completion.

"This stadium, when completed, will have one of the best amenities for players and it will be one of the fastest-made stadiums of the country," said Choudhary.

The new stadium will have seating capacity of 35000 people in five north and south pavilions. The stadium has earlier this year hosted Ranji Trophy matches.

Link: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/indl-goods-/-svs/metals-mining/arcelormittal-kickstarts-mining-in-jharkhand/articleshow/10409298.cms



ArcelorMittal India, the local unit of the world's largest steelmaker, has started drilling operations at the Seregarha coal block in Latehaar district of Jharkhand, signalling that work toward setting up the proposed 3 million tonne steel plant may have finally started.

ArcelorMittal has already applied for permission to the Jharkhand government for commencing drilling operations at the Karampada iron ore mines in West Singhbhum district. The drilling operations or the geophysical prospecting would help the company assess the availability of coal and iron ore at these two mines for which ArcerlorMittal has already obtained prospecting licences.

According to people familiar with the matter, drilling at Seregarha is likely to be completed by December 2011, following which the company would submit a geophysical report and mining plan to obtain the mining lease. The company is already trying to get forest and private land in and around the allotted coal block and expects to start production from Seregarha from 2014, said the people. ArcelorMittal signed an agreement with Jharkhand to build a 12 million tonne integrated steel plant in 2005 but later scaled down the project size to 3 million tonnes. The company has been given prospecting lease for two iron ore mines and for the Serhegarha coal block.

Article Link :http://www.praguepost.com/business/10663-asia-tour-reaps-benefits.html

I am just posting an excerpt, from this very long article.

A whirlwind trip through Asia that saw Industry and Trade Minister Martin Kocourek lead 50 Czech business execs on a deal-signing spree is coming to a close. The agreements made over the past few days are expected to increase bilateral trade by billions of euros, with most of the investments in Asia focused on infrastructure and mining projects.

Several stops in India were on the itinerary, a country with which Czech trade has increased tenfold in the past decade, and whose 8 percent GDP growth makes it an interesting prospect for European investors experiencing sluggish growth at home.

"India has a booming economy, but at the same time the country needs to modernize its infrastructure to be able to sustain the growth," said Industry and Trade Ministry spokesman Jiří Sochor.

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One major deal has Vítkovice Machinery Group agreeing on strategic cooperation in metallurgy and energy with India's engineering giant HEC Ranchi.

"The power sector and mining are key sectors in terms of our operations in India," said Robin Ojha, managing director of Vítkovice India Power PVT. "We can consider the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding with HEC Ranchi to be a strategic move that will even more effectively challenge this business."

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Kocourek agreed with Indian Trade Minister Anand Sharma that cooperation between companies of the two countries will soon be backed by a special commission of ministers from both countries.

"I consider the 21st century to be the century of Asia," Ojha said. "Indian growth is driven by this massive investment in the infrastructure and development of the nation."

Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111022/jsp/jharkhand/story_14654319.jsp


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Santevita Hospital, which promises better medical facilities, under construction in Ranchi

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Orchid Medical Centre in Ranchi

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Front view of the Orchid Medical Center


State-of-the-art medical infrastructure, cutting-edge technology, an outstanding pool of specialists and highest standard of affordable therapy — if this is healthcare utopia, Ranchi will find it soon.

A bevy of reputable private players is all set to make forays into the medical sector, gifting the capital — hitherto dependent on state-run Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) for quality and pocket-friendly treatment — a bouquet of multi-specialty, super-specialty and multi-super-specialty hospitals by the end of 2012.

Eminent cardiac surgeon of the country Dr Naresh Trehan, whose Medanta in Gurgaon offers global healthcare standards along with clinical research, innovation and education, is learnt to have evinced interest in opening a wing of the much-touted medicity in Ranchi. If sources are to be believed, he is already holding talks with the state government for land in the capital.

Another multi-speciality hospital is on the anvil, courtesy city-based businessman Amit Sahu. He has promised the best of healthcare at his upcoming Santevita Hospital by mid-2012.


Unconfirmed reports also said that St John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, is planning a medical college in the capital, while Calcutta-based Medica super-specialty hospital has Ranchi in mind as part of its 2012 expansion plans, which will see as many as 10 of its centres across eastern India.


A week ago, big name in cardiac care Fortis Escorts Heart Institute launched its unit in the city in association with Alam Hospital and Research Centre.

Orchid Medical Centre, owned by a city-based builder, came up six months ago. And, in the last couple of years, several other health hubs like Apollo Hospital and Rani Children’s Hospital have set shop in the capital.

Undoubtedly, Ranchi is witnessing a medicare boom. :banana::banana::banana: The question is why?

“Though Ranchi has been the capital of Jharkhand since the state was created over a decade ago, it has been only two-three years that the city is experiencing a sudden influx of people. Reasons are many. Mushrooming malls and food joints are creating employment opportunities like never before. More the people, greater the need for health services. It is but natural for the health sector to cash in on the change,” said Subir Roy, the chief medical officer of Orchid.

Roy maintained that there had always been a demand for investment in the sector, but investors were hard to find. “Ever since we opened our centre, the OPD has remained crowded almost every day. This explains the urgent need for a good specialty hospital,” he said.

“Dearth of decent state hospitals and medical colleges is another reason behind private players entering the fray. In days to come, we are going to see private medical colleges like in Bangalore and more specialised hospitals,” he added.

Every investment is market-oriented. So, another viable theory is that since metros are now saturated, private players are focusing on tier-II and tier-III cities and towns.

“This is why almost everyone is vying for places like Ranchi, where the scope of investment in healthcare is immense given the government’s failure in delivering services right from primary health centres to hospitals,” said Gaurav Roy, deputy manager, Santevita Hospital.

Innovation will be the key at this 80-bed health hub, he said. “Multi-specialty/super-specialty centres are the need of the hour. Except cardiac care, we will have almost every discipline. Our USP will be a separate maternity wing with stress on normal delivery. We will have experts from Sweden,” he added.

Irrespective of age, sex or geographical location, everyone faces health problems because of changing lifestyle these days. This again is prompting investors to reach out to people everywhere.

“Till recently, Kolkata was the nearest option for good and budget health services. The financially fortunate could look up to Delhi and Mumbai. But travelling, accommodation etc. took a toll on both the body and mind. Now, things will be different. What you need, we will make it available in your city and state,” said Tabassum Hassan, the CEO of Alam Hospital and Research Centre.

With private players promising so much, the government too is feeling the need for upgrade. A testimony to this is the sadar hospital’s 500-bed expansion plan to ease pressure on RIMS. Though the pace of work is tardy, officials offer that once completed the revamped hospital will “certainly help address healthcare needs of the downtrodden in a holistic manner”.

Link: http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/ranchi/15698-coming-soon-iim-ranchis-new-green-campus.html


With just a month left for possession of land for the Indian Institute of Management-Ranchi (IIM-R) at Kanke block beside the upcoming Ring Road, the top B-institute has a piece of architectural beauty up its sleeves as its brand new campus.

At present, IIM-R has been functioning from its makeshift campus at Suchna Bhavan.

IIM-Ranchi will be set up across 76 acres at picturesque Nagri village. Despite the rigorous process of land acquisition in Jharkhand, the institute has managed clearance and registration of its name.

At a recent campus development committee IIM-R (CDC) meeting, the concept map of the new campus has been approved by board members, comprising Vice-chancellor of Central University of Jharkhand DT Khating, HRD Secretary BK Tripathy, statutory member of IIM-R Diwakar Minj and civil engineer from BIT Mesra Krishnamurthy.

“A concept map of the sprawling campus of IIM-Ranchi has been designed by a local architect to invite tenders from consultancy firms to begin the task at the earliest,” said MJ Xavier, Director of IIM-Ranchi.

The map, as its name suggests, is a replica of the idea of chairman RC Bhargava and Xavier. The architectural design includes the main administrative and academic building, staff quarters and students’ hostels, along with guesthouse for visitors. A shopping complex with proposed public utility offices has also been included.

According to the first layout (map), the institute has utilised only about 55 per cent of the land, keeping the rest area for future expansion. “Further, the left-over area of about 30 acres can be used for opening up ‘schools’ for specialisation studies in the management sector,” added the director.

“IIM-Ranchi would be the first Government building to go vertical, leaving area for expansion of floors above in future. The building will be a ‘green’ building, energy efficient and also supported with a reverse osmosis plant set-up in the institute’s campus for recycling kitchen waste and water,” the director told The Pioneer.

Another article on IIM Ranchi
Link: http://www.pagalguy.com/2011/11/iim-ranchi-to-construct-a-high-rise-campus-with-ac-hostels-for-2000-students/


Breaking away from the tradition of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) campuses being distributed building clusters spread over hundreds of acres, the new IIM Ranchi campus due to be constructed by 2014 will be a high-rise campus with ten-storey buildings.

In a public notice inviting tenders from construction consultants, IIM Ranchi has described the proposed campus to have one six-storeyed academic building containing 30 hi-tech classrooms and eight to ten hostel buildings of ten-storeys each comprising a total of 2,000 single rooms for students. Additionally, there would be 500 apartments for faculty, staff and Management Development Program participants and an auditorium with a capacity of 2,000. Of the 79 acres of land allotted t0 IIM Ranchi, about 45 acres will be constructed over for now. The entire project is expected to cost Rs 400 crores.

This will make IIM Ranchi the tallest but also the smallest of all IIM campuses. While the older IIMs at Ahmedabad, Calcutta, Bangalore and Kozhikode each have a campus size of at least a 100 acres, those at Lucknow and Indore have campuses of over 150 acres. Of the new IIMs started up since 2009, IIM Udaipur has experienced the biggest real estate windfall with 253 acres while each of Raipur, Kashipur, Rohtak and Trichy have been given more or less 200 acres each.

“We asked for a good piece of land near the city center instead of a large tract of land far away from town like the rest of the new IIMs. Land costs are higher inside the city so the size is smaller. But if we grow vertically, 45 acres is enough to construct a world-class institute,” IIM Ranchi director Prof MJ Xavier told PaGaLGuY, adding that the architecture of the campus was being planned to be on the lines of University of Massachusetts or Chicago-Booth GSB, both of which have chosen to have their business schools in high-rises instead of distributed buildings as in the older universities such as Harvard or MIT. The campus will be one of the attractions that IIM Ranchi plans to pitch to attract international students.

The academic block of IIM Ranchi’s proposed campus will be a circular structure of six storeys containing classrooms on the first and second floors and faculty rooms in the levels above, described Prof Xavier. There will be an open area in the middle covered with a roof serving as a student sit-out area. As many as 20 classrooms will be equipped to broadcast lectures over broadband to the hostels as well as outside the campus.

The 2,000 student capacity hostels will be constructed in a quadrangular arrangement with the central section containing sports and recreational facilities.


“In about 7 to 8 years we will have 2,000 students on campus once we start sectoral MBA courses in business analytics, human resource management, health and energy management,” said Prof Xavier justifying the capacity being built.

Apart from being high-rise buildings where day-to-day existence will be centered around elevators, the entire campus including the hostels will be fully airconditioned. According to Prof Xavier, the energy costs of such an electricity-hogging campus will still be lesser than what it takes to maintain a larger hundred-acre campus with its landscaping costs. Further, the IIM Ranchi campus will strive towards getting a platinum rating in energy efficiency by installing facilities such as those to recycle food waste to manure, treating used water for reuse in toilets and gardening, he added.

The hi-tech nature of the campus is however expected to drive up the cost of education at IIM Ranchi. “If you want a world class face-to-face environment, you will have to pay for it. We will also be offering distance learning programs with differential pricing for those who cannot afford the face-to-face experience,” Prof Xavier remarked.

“We will nevertheless try to reduce the costs of the MBA programs by using revenues earned from corporate training programs,” he added.

IIM Ranchi’s 79 acres campus land has been sliced out from the Birsa Agricultural University campus located at Nagari-Kanke, about 15 kms from the Ranchi airport. The institute was earlier allotted 214 acres at the same location, but in September the Jharkhand cabinet took a decision to strip away 139 acres from the campus. Despite repeated attempts, nobody was available from the Jharkhand Department of Higher Education to disclose the reason behind the land reduction.

IIM Ranchi is at present temporarily operating out of the premises of Suchana Bhavan, a government office building in Ranchi.

Link: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1111128/jsp/jharkhand/story_14806137.jsp


Ranchi Municipal Corporation (RMC) on Sunday invited tenders from consultancy firms for preparing a detailed project report (DPR), which would give shape to its dream project of developing a shopping complex and park at the spot where the Naga Baba Khatal once stood.

The consultant would be selected by the civic body through the tender process. The agency selected, apart from preparing the DPR, would help find for RMC a suitable developer who will finance, build, operate and maintain the infrastructure at Naga Baba Khatal.

RMC chief executive officer Vinay Kumar Choubey said the civic body has plans to set up an underground shopping complex and a theme park on the four acres of vacant land at Naga Baba Khatal, situated near Raj Bhavan.

“The underground shopping complex and theme park would be developed at the open space of Naga Baba Khatal under public-private partnership mode. The agency that we will select now, will help us find a suitable developer,” said Choubey.

The four acres of prime land had been in the illegal possession of dairy owners, mostly from different districts of Bihar, who had built hutments and stayed there since the 1950s. There were nearly 200 cowsheds owned by as many families that comprised Naga Baba Khatal.

However, on the orders of Jharkhand High Court, the district administration evicted the illegal settlers in May this year and freed the place from the encroachers. Thereafter, RMC had put an iron wire fence around the plot in order to prevent any illegal settlements there.

According to plan, the civic body will select the consultant by mid-January next year, following which the agency will be asked to prepare the DPR for developing the open space at Naga Baba Khatal.
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Article Link: http://www.kentucky.com/2011/11/29/1976803/kentucky-news-review-sing-off.html

Not neccesarily a Project news or something, however I found it to be funny, coz a US tabloid published this news :nuts::nuts:



•KFC is opening a store in Ranchi, India, reports The Pioneer. "The fast food freaks of the city, especially youngsters, seem to be euphoric with the news of opening of the biggest chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville. The people of Ranchi are thrilled and quite inquisitive about a KFC in their town," according to the news story.



Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2011/11/29/1976803/kentucky-news-review-sing-off.html#ixzz1f7y5cfwi

Link: http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/ranchi/23840-kfc-makes-grand-entrance-in-capital-tomorrow.html

:banana::banana:Wow Ranchi is the 9th city to have KFC... Looks like it is going crazy with all these fast food joints including Subway, Dominos, Pizza Hut etc.

Edit: McDonald's too is under construction and should be ready soon (Lalpur area)


International food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken is all set to lure the food lovers of Ranchi with its stunning first outlet scheduled to open on Wednesday.

“We cannot divulge much information about the food joint at this moment. It’s opening on Wednesday and a formal Press briefing is expected. You can contact the right person in Delhi for further information,” said a senior official belonging to the Ranchi outlet of KFC.

This will be first-ever KFC outlet in Ranchi which has its centres mainly in metropolitan cities of the country. Now the residents of Ranchi will also get a chance to enjoy the great flavour.

The fast food freaks of the city, especially youngsters, seem to be euphoric with the news of opening of the biggest chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville. The people of Ranchi are thrilled and quite inquisitive about a KFC in their town. The outlet is going to be opened at the Seramtoli Square on a floor area of 4,000 square feet.

KFC is a chain of fast food restaurants based in Louisville. It primarily sells chicken piece wraps, salads and sandwiches. Although one of its most admired items is fried chicken, KFC also offers a line of grilled and roasted chicken products, side dishes and desserts.

The fast food giant had opened its first restaurant in Bangalore, capital of south India’s Karnataka in 1995 and now has 15 outlets, including five in Bangalore, three in Delhi, two in Pune and one each in Mumbai, Kolkata, Chandigarh, Ludhiana and Hyderabad.

The menu includes delicious mouth-watering toasted wrap, twisted fries meal, twister popcorn meal, chicken ginger fries, chicken ginger meal, hot ginger fries meal, hot ginger meal, veg zing kong box, all in range of Rs 200. Each and every meal at the KFC is very cheap and within the financial reach of the common people.

The residents of Ranchi are very excited about it and are planning to visit KFC as soon as possible. An engineering aspirant, Priya said that she is very eager to see the restaurant opened.

“It’s quite good and we are very excited to know that its here. Earlier we used to see it on television and now when its here in our town we are very happy,” Sushmita, a college student, said.

An advocate at Ranchi high court said, “There are a number of restaurant in Ranchi but most of them are not affordable. But now with the arrival of KFC, we will be able to enjoy new flavours of chicken.”

Ready for some top secret leaked news.............Centenary mall details coming.

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The detailed and uncompressed floor layout is available through this links....
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ground floor plan


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1ST floor.....

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second FLOOR PLAN

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3rd floor pLAN

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5TH floor

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6TH floor

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7TH floor

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8TH floor

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Link: http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/ranchi/31037-japan-pm-all-for-boosting-jharkhand-ties.html


Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda and Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda met Japanese Prime Minister Yoshi Hiko Noda during a meeting held under the Indo-Japan Global Partnership Summit 2013 in New Delhi on Tuesday.


Munda welcomed the Japanese PM and discussed several issues related to development of his State.

While the Haryana Government is already working with the Japanese Government in various sectors, Jharkhand will become the second State to work with the Land of the Rising Sun in areas of core infrastructure, including roads, energy, airport, information technology, natural resource management and the social sector.

The Prime Minister of Japan also showed interest in the development of Jharkhand and assured collaboration in technical, financial and other aspects. Other speakers, including eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani, were also present on the occasion.

Munda has invited the Japanese Noda to Jharkhand for an official visit and the State Government is expecting a high-level delegation to arrive for cooperation in the fields of technology and resource management, along with development of infrastructure, very soon.

Link: http://telegraphindia.com/1120110/jsp/frontpage/story_14985223.jsp


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Security personnel on guard at one of the Kanke sites on Monday.

A permanent campus seemed that much more real for Indian Institute of Management (IIM)-Ranchi and National University for Study and Research in Law (NUSRL) today as the district administration began constructing boundary walls around the plots earmarked for the purpose near the capital.

Both institutes are in their second year of existence and have been waiting long to get possession of land to build permanent infrastructure. At present, IIM-Ranchi functions out of space provided by the state information and public relations department, while NUSRL manages to operate from four rooms provided by BIT-Mesra.

While IIM-Ranchi has been given over 76 acres in Kanke, on the outskirts of the capital, NUSRL has got 63 acres in the same area. IIM-Ranchi aims to invest a whopping Rs 500 crore to Rs 800 crore to set up “world class” infrastructure and NUSRL is expected to part with about Rs 200 crore for its permanent facility.

“We have started erecting the boundary walls for IIM and NUSRL. We expected protest from villagers, but nothing happened. About 250 policemen were deputed to keep trouble-makers at bay,” Ranchi sub-divisional officer Shekhar Jamuar told The Telegraph.

Villagers had earlier protested against pending and poor compensation for land taken in the 1950s from them and which has now been allotted to NUSRL.

Expectedly, authorities of both institutes are happy with the developments.

Speaking to The Telegraph, IIM-Ranchi director M.J. Xavier said today’s development was a welcome step for they had been waiting to get possession of the land for quite some time.

“Our board meeting is to take place on January 30 in Delhi where we will decide about the mode of development and construction of the campus. We have been promised about Rs 500 crore from the Union ministry of human resource development for the purpose,” Xavier said.

The authorities are mulling three options — inviting tenders and roping in architects and builders, engaging a project contractor who would appoint an architect and builder or engaging a well-known construction major to execute the project on a design, build and maintain (initially for five years) mode.

Xavier added they aimed to build over 10 lakh square feet area, where the focus would be on vertical structures rather than horizontal, to allow more green space. The thrust will also be on energy efficiency.

NUSRL vice chancellor A.K. Koul also welcomed the developments. “We have virtually nothing we can call infrastructure. Now the things will move in right earnest,” he said.

NUSRL has already employed Delhi-based architects, Step, to prepare a detailed project report. The authorities are interested in employing Central Public Works Department for the construction.

However, a funds crunch may come in the way of setting up good infrastructure for NUSRL. “We have been allotted Rs 50 crore by the state government for setting up infrastructure. However, that is not adequate. We require at least Rs 200 crore,” a senior faculty said.

Latest ground floor with details of stores
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1st Floor

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2nd floor

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3rd Floor

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Original PDF links (non-compressed)

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Good news : mcdonalds and Mainland china are also coming....

with Star India Bazar,Trent,Pantaloons, etc etc