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Mega Sports Complex - Ranchi (?)



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Intelligent design

Manit Rastogi, Sanjay Bhardwaj and Sonali Srivastava make up the architecture firm Morphogenesis. Together they have built the Metropolitan Mall in Gurgaon; restored the PVR Plaza Cinema in New Delhi’s crumbling Connaught Place; they have built a township in West Bengal, the Maker Towne business district in Mumbai and the British School in New Delhi.

Among their latest projects, two stand out especially to illustrate their special blend of computer technology and creativity.

The first project is in Dehradun, where the team is building an iconic new structure that has to not only be functional, but also be a symbol of the strides in IT Uttaranchal sees itself taking in the future.

“We had to incorporate some symbolism of progress,” says Rastogi, “but we didn’t want to make it too dull, or block out the natural environ of Dehradun, the mountains and the sunshine.”

They created a program that would provide the perfect shape (according to the latitude and longitude of the site), so that whichever part of the building you stand in, at whatever time of the day, you are exposed only to diffused light rather than direct sunlight.

Dehradun’s steel and glass “Cyber Tower”, when completed, will be 5,00,000 sq ft, and will cost the government of Uttaranchal Pradesh a cool Rs 80 crore to build.

The second project that stands out is a project with the Amarnath shrine board. “This pilgrimage is the largest in the world,” says Srivastava. “But it’s disorganised, there’s no formal housing for pilgrims, and the area is prone to heavy snowfall and avalanches.”

“Our project with Amarnath,” says Bhardwaj, “consists of three stages. First, we had to think of accommodation. Here we ran into various problems of strategy. The area is 13,500 ft above sea level, has extremes of weather, and the roads are barely negotiable at the best of times. We realised it would be difficult to transport the raw materials up there, and build on-site, and it would also be difficult to build off-site and then assemble on-site. The problem was transport.”

A brainstorming session brought the perfect solution: to carve the rooms into the mountain. And this is exactly what the team is planning to do.

Morphogenesis has also designed a dwar just before the cave. “Right now, there’s no symbolic arrival point to signify the end of the journey,” says Srivastava. And the journey is arduous: 45 km by the traditional route, and 13 km (which still takes half a day to walk) from the new base camp.

Using stone mined from the mountain, the Morphogenesis team designed a concept that involved eight pillars of stone, each denoting the eight points of the compass, (“because pilgrims come from all corners of the world,” says Srivastava), and a waterway, which tapers down in the direction of the Amarnath caves, symbolising journey’s end.

The last part of the project is a mandap, where bhajans and other functions can be organised. This structure was another challenge to create. “Steel gets very brittle in the snow,” says Bhardwaj, “so we made a shell-like structure that can fold into itself come every winter, and be put up again relatively easily in the summer months when the pilgrims come.” Construction on this project will start this summer, and is expected to take at least 3-4 years to complete.

The three architects also have other projects up their sleeves, such as a mall in Chandigarh that changes colour at night, and India’s first cable-stay suspension building in Raigarh for Jindal Steel.

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A "dream" project?

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Mega Sports Complex - Ranchi (?)



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Nagarjuna to build Ranchi games village

IL&FS Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited has closed its first large infrastructure project on PPP basis in Jharkhand.

The agreement for development of the National Games Housing Complex (NGHC) at Hotwar, Ranchi was signed recently between Nagarjuna Construction Company Limited (NCC) and the state government of Jharkhand.

NCC emerged as the successful bidder out of 20 companies that expressed interest in the project after a competitive bidding process.

Under the terms of the agreement signed, NCC will design, finance and implement a self-contained township with up to 1800 dwelling units through a special purpose company. The private developer will construct 1200 dwelling units by August 2007 and make these available for the stay of athletes and officials during the National Games 2007 at Ranchi.

In return for providing the land for NGHC, the government will get 216 dwelling units free of cost in addition to the cost saving on the accommodation of athletes and sportspersons during the Games.

IL&FS IDC Limited is working on a number of PPP projects in the state including an auto component SEZ, an industrial water supply scheme and a bridge across the river Kharkai connecting Jamshedpur and Adityapur.

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Cata Appliances to set up manufacturing unit in Himachal Pradesh

Cata Appliances Ltd, a 51:49 joint venture between Ultrapure Technology & Appliances India Ltd and Spain-based home appliances manufacturer, Cata Electrodomesticso S L, has finalised its plan to put up a factory at Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, at an investment of Rs 21 crore for the manufacture of kitchen appliances.

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CM launches mid Himalayas watershed development project

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh today formally launched the Rs 365 crore World Bank-aided, project, ''Himachal Pradesh Mid Himalayas Watershed Development Project,'' at Kothipura near here.

Presiding over a public meeting, Mr Singh said the project was ''multipurpose and multipronged'' under which emphasis would be laid on drinking water, irrigation, agriculture, horticulture, improving cattle wealth and fodder for them.

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Ski resort braves gods’ wrath

The gods of Kullu — some 400 of them — are against the Rs 5,000-crore Himalyan Ski Village being built by a Ford scion at Manali, 265 km from here. At least, so say the official interpreters of the gods’ will: the temple oracles of the region.

Some 400 oracles — priests believed to possess the mystical power of communicating with the deities — on Thursday said a resounding “no” to the project at a congregation organised by the Opposition BJP in Kullu.

But the state government is determined to make a success of the project that promises a “world-class” ski village on the lines of Switzerland’s St Moritz, god willing or not.

The project, the largest proposed foreign direct investment in the Indian tourism industry, was sucked into controversy as soon as the state signed an MoU with Alfred Ford’s Himalayan Ski Village Project Private Limited last October.

The project, to be completed by 2009, is likely to start towards the end of this year. Alfred Ford, the great grandson of Henry Ford, will get the ski slopes — stretching 14 km between Kothi and Jagatsukh in Manali — designed by experts from Vail, Colorado.

The village will have a 600-room five-star hotel, 300 chalets, food courts, a handicraft village, theatre complex, convention centre and a sanatorium.

The industry fears the political heat might scare Ford into shifting the project to Kashmir, whose government is believed to have sent feelers.

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AML Steel to set up 2mn steel plant in Jharkhand

MUMBAI: Chennai-based AML Steel Ltd said it will set up an integrated steel plant with two million tonnes per annum steel making capacity in Jharkhand with an investment of Rs 1,944 crore.

To be implemented in three phases, the first phase of the project has already commenced with an investment of Rs 114 crore, company Managing Director Ashok Agarwal told reporters here.

The first phase of the project would be operational by January 2007, while the whole project is expected to go on stream by 2012, he said, adding, the project would be funded through debt and equity.

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SPS-Synergy to build township at Durgapur
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The steel city of Durgapur will get its first integrated knowledge and health city spread over 300 acres soon. The mega project will be set up by the SPS-Synergy Foundation promoted by the SPS and Synergy groups.
The Rs 600 crore project is likely to be fully completed by 2012 with parts of it being inaugurated earlier in phases.

The foundation stone of the integrated knowledge and health city was laid by the commerce and industry minister of West Bengal, Nirupam Sen.

The first phase entailing an investment of Rs 150 crore will comprise a medical college with 500 bed hospital, a residential school, a nursing college, sports complex and common amenities like housing complex and outdoor sports complex. In the second phase of the project, a dental college will be set up along with management and technology colleges. A super specialty medi-care centre, an indoor sports complex and other township amenities will be set up in the third phase. In the final phase, an old age home, a homeopathy and naturopathy centre, pharmacy college, medical hall and a health hotel will be set up. The township was expected to accommodate around 30,000 people.

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IT firms flood SEZ in Mangalore

The Karnataka government is flooded with applications for allotment of land at the proposed information technology special economic zone (IT SEZ) in Konaje near Mangalore University. Though it is running out of land, it is considering expanding the SEZ by another 500 acres.

According to highly-placed sources, the state government has completed the land allotment process. The combined investment at the proposed IT SEZ is likely to be around Rs 700 crore and create at least 1.5 lakh jobs direct.

Prominent IT firms that applied for land at the IT SEZ include Infosys Technologies, Wipro and NRIs based in Australia and Dubai.

The Australian NRI firm Numagine Technologies and Dubai-based NRI firm Mangalore Internet City have been allotted 35 acres and 50 acres respectively.

According to the new SEZ norms recently laid down by the Centre, at least 25 acres are required for setting up a sector-specific SEZ (for instance, for IT, biotech, gems and jewellery) and 250 acres for a general SEZ. At least 25-30 per cent of the land in any SEZ should be reserved for utilities like roads, drainage, green belt and effluent treatment plant.

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apparently IT firms are causing floods all over the place....

IT firms queue to Goa, new hi-tech centre inagurated

IT giants such as Infosys, Microsoft, Gold Shield, ICICI OneSource, 3G (Hutch), GE, Convergies and many more will be opening their call centres in the state by mid-2007, according to Dayanand Narvekar, IT minister of the state.

The stateopened a new hi-tech IT centre, Rajiv Gandhi IT Habitat, situated at Dona Paula. The facility was inaugurated by UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. "Goa has created the infrastructure to become a hub for investment," she said.

An area measuring one lakh sq mt has been earmarked for Wipro in the Goa University campus located at Dona Paula, adjacent to the IT Habitat, he said. "It was Azim Premji, Wipro chairman, who expressed interest to start operations in Goa, and this has come as a major boost for us," he added.

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Heated realty growth in Amritsar

Amritsar seems all set to witness the culture of multiplexes, villas, luxury apartments, service apartments and penthouses.

Experts believe that besides the government�s decision to set up SEZ here, real estate rush in Amritsar has also been triggered by leading developers from Delhi and local counterparts.

Delhi-based Advance India projects Ltd (AIPL) is bringing the concept of service apartment and penthouses to Amritsar in its upcoming townships. The total township would be spread over 115 acre and boasts of villas and condominiums, besides service apartments.

Also Noida-based Nitishree Group is launching an exclusive Shourya NRI City on Jalandhar Amritsar Highway, targeting NRI�s. The city will comprise of 2&3 bedroom independent bungalows, plots and split level hi-tech wifi villas.

Sources in the industry also revealed that Clarion is bringing privileged living in the form of English country living with sprawling luxurious bungalows and buildings.

One such group is Sharma and Gangaher Builders and Colonisers Private limited, which has tied up with Delhi Based Tewari Global Infrastructure Limited to develop Amritsar Global City. The City which is coming up in about 200 acres on NH1, promises to bring international style township living with breathtaking architecture, greenery water bodies, integrated health club, jogging track, nature parks, shopping malls etc.

Another local Developer, The Heritage group is developing three residential projects over 175 acres. These include Heritage City, a 55 acre group housing and row housing project. Second Project is Heritage Enclave which is coming up over 30 acres on airport road. The third project would be integrated township spread over 70 acres.

The Third local group Impact Projects Private Limited is coming up with Impact gardens over 50 acres on Amritsar-Wagah Bye pass.

Apart from this, Punjab Urban Development Authority( PUDA) is developing a massive 650 acres Urban estate on GT road. Housefed on the other hand is building multi storied super deluxe flats at New Amritsar Development Scheme on GT Road.

Amritsar will have its first shopping mall in a year�s time. About half a dozen malls are being planned by Delhi builders like AIPL, Omaxe, Today Home and Infrastructure, MBD group, Dynamic and Continental etc, have their plans to set up multiplexes.

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DLF lines up Rs 10,000 cr for Punjab

The DLF group will invest Rs 10,000 crore in Punjab to develop retail malls, a special economic zone, and shopping centres in Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Amritsar and other cities in the state over the next five to eight years.

“In the first phase of infrastructure development, we are going to start work on an SEZ in Amritsar, spread over 1,000 acres, with an investment of Rs 800 crore,” DLF Info City Developers (Kolkata) Ltd Managing Director Yogesh Verma told Business Standard.

The Amritsar SEZ will be divided into four phases ---- textile and garment sector, energy, food processing and a free-trade zone.

The company is also planning another SEZ in one of the industrial townships of Phagwara, Jallandhar and Ludhiana.

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Greenply: On expansion mode

f the total funds raised, a majority will be used for commissioning a new plant at Uttaranchal, while some portion will be used for loan repayment.

The new Uttaranchal plant will have a plywood-producing capacity of 6.6 million sq metres. This plant was expected to be commissioned by July 2006, but is currently two months ahead of schedule. It will also have a particleboard producing capacity of 1.8 million sq metres, to be commissioned by October this year.

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New Voltas plant starts by June

Tata Group company Voltas Ltd on Monday said it would start production from its Uttaranchal plant by the middle of this year and said it was investing Rs 26 crore on promotion and retail expansion of its air-conditioners.

"By June this year, the first phase of our new plant at Pantnagar in Uttaranchal will start operations with production of refirgeration units," Voltas Ltd Senior Vice-President K J Jawa told reporters here.

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Bajaj Auto to invest Rs1,500 crore; to expand capacity to 51 lakh units

In the first phase of the expansion, the company plans to expand motorcycle capacity to 36 lakh units per year by the year 2007.

The company would set up a new green field unit at Pantnagar in the state of Uttaranchal. New manufacturing facilities in Uttaranchal are eligible for significant tax benefits. Tata Motors is also considering a new facility in Uttaranchal for its newly launched small commercial vehicle.

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Tally makes Uttaranchal foray

Tally Solutions, a Bangalore-based accounting software company, has set up 15 training centres in Uttaranchal and is making forays into other northern states.

Tally, which has developed the world’s first concurrent multilingual business management software to facilitate entrepreneurs to maintain their accounts in the language of their choice, is holding talks with the Uttaranchal government for providing IT education to students through public private partnership (PPP), Vice-President Avinash Gupta said.

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what tatas will be manufacturing in Uttaranchal, in the first phase....

Tata Motors to invest Rs 2,500 cr

Tata Motors Ltd will invest Rs 2,500 crore in a plant in Uttaranchal to make its fast-selling light commercial vehicle, Ace, and possibly its forthcoming Rs 1 lakh car. The plant will come up at Pantnagar and have a capacity to produce 350,000-400,000 vehicles a year.

Responding to a huge demand for the Ace, Tata recently announced that it would double the vehicle’s production to 60,000 a year. The manufacturing location of the Rs 1 lakh car has been a subject of much speculation.

Tata Motors, according to this official, will take up 1,100 acres in Pantnagar, an industrial cluster where two-wheeler major Bajaj Auto plans to set up a motorcycle manufacturing unit.

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UP govt allows commercial complexes on theatre land

The UP government has decided to allow the owners of closed movie theatres to utilise the land for building commercial complexes, on the condition that they build a minimum 300-seat mini theatre in the complex.

According to sources in the UP entertainment department, over the past decade, with the advent of cable television, the number of cinema-goers had plunged considerably. The 900 cinema halls in the state, with a capacity to seat one billion people in a year, saw barely 12.4 crore viewers in the past year.

In Agra alone, where movie theatres were the major crowd pullers about a decade back when there were no other "attractions" in the town, 22 theatres have shut down and another is on the verge of closure leaving just 29 theatres and last year, these movie halls managed to pull just over 2.5 lakh viewers against their total capacity of seating 3.91 crore in a year.

About 250 cinema halls had either shut down or were on the verge of closure, but permission had not been granted to the owners of these theatres to utilize this 2000 sq yard of prime theatre land for commercial activities and as a result, all over the state, this land was lying completely waste.

While earlier, movie theatre owners had been given the option of opening multiplexes on this land, the restriction of having at least 4000 sq yards of land for building a multiplex resulted in the failure of this scheme as most cinema halls were constructed on 2000 sq. yards of land.

Talking to Business Standard, Mohan Swaroop, Commissioner Entertainment, UP said to devise a way out of this problem, the state government had now decided to allow the owners of the movie theatres that have been shut down, to demolish the theatre and construct a commercial complex in its place, leaving minimum space at any floor of the complex for a 300 seat mini-theatre to ensure that the land that had been allotted to the movie theatre owners by the government for popular entertainment, continues to serve that purpose.

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Bajaj, Ashok Leyland eye Uttaranchal

After Bajaj Auto, Ashok Leyland is also exploring the possibility of setting up a manufacturing unit in Uttaranchal.

Bajaj Auto is the latest entrant in the race to establish a greenfield manufacturing unit in the thriving Pantnagar industrial estate in Kumaon region with an investment of Rs 500 crore.

Meanwhile, Ashok Leyland is in talks with the top Uttaranchal government officials for setting up a new unit in the state.

For this purpose, the company is exploring the possibility of installing a manufacturing unit at Sitarganj industrial estate which is being developed by State Industrial Corporation of Uttaranchal Limited (SIDCUL).

Already, Tata Motors had deposited initial amount of Rs 7 crore for setting up a manufacturing unit at Pantnagar industrial estate which is already bursting at seems with hefty investments from top-notch companies like Britania, Parley Biscuits, Nestle India.

On the other hand, Bajaj Auto company would invest Rs 500 crore in its Pantnagar industrial estate manufacturing unit for motrocycles.

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Sitapur SEZ Phase II almost complete
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E.I.D. Parry has decided to expand its sugar business with investments of Rs 850 crore over the next two years and by acquiring Parry Neutraceuticals Ltd as a subsidiary to focus on sugar and bio-products business.

This will mean that its capacity in sugar, alcohol and power generation will be more than doubled through this investment. E.I.D. Parry has four sugar mills - in Cuddalore, Pudukottai, Karur and Tiruchi - with a total crushing capacity of about 35 lakh tonnes of sugarcane a year.

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Uttaranchal:Land of opportunity

The state is a safe and secure destination for investors, has a tourist-friendly environment, with a culture of ‘Athithi Devo Bhava’ or ‘Guest is God’. Sanjeev Chopra, Secretary (Industries), Uttaranchal, elaborated on the goals and objectives of the government.

The state aims to augment capital, infrastructure and resources, and promote technology and innovation for agricultural and industrial upgradation. He said that efforts are being made to make the government effective, transparent, responsive and accountable. The Uttaranchal government aims to encourage public-private participation in infrastructure development and delivery, Mr Chopra pointed out.

Describing Dehradun as the ‘Knowledge Capital’ that boasts of many famous organisations like the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, FRI, IMA, DEAL, IRDE and IIP, Mr Chopra said that Doon Valley is the nerve centre for quality education with institutions like Doon School, Welhams and RIMC. Uttaranchal also offers the best in technical education and has institutions like UPES, ICFAI and Doon University.

Special incentives for tourism include exempting new tourism units from luxury tax and new ropeways installed from entertainment tax for five years from the date of commencement, and exempting new amusement parks from entertainment cost for five years from the date of becoming fully operational. These measures, along with a 100% exemption from entertainment tax for new multiplex projects for a period of three years and the conversion of land use being made admissible for hotels, motels, resort, health spa, yoga and meditation centre, tourist village entertainment/amusement/water park/natural and botanical park, would accelerate tourism growth in the state.

The State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttaranchal (SIDCUL) is setting up a 65-acre state-of-the-art software technology park at Dehradun with intelligent buildings and a hi-tech habitat centre. In addition, an STPI earth station will be set up at Dehradun with a connectivity of up to 100 mbps. Reliance Infocomm, BSNL and VSNL are laying a fibre optics network. The state government has signed MoUs with Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, IBM and others for setting up research academies.

Around 40 acres of the 65-acre IT Park at Shastradhara Raod, Dehradun was saleable. The built-up space would be 40 lakh sq feet and the park will soon have roads, drainage, sewerage, water supply, provision for internal electrical and telecom/data connectivity. Doon Cyber Tower will have a 4-lakh sq feet built-up area. The construction will commence in March ’06 and the target for completion is January-March ’07.

The state is developing infrastructure by creating a State IT academy at hermitage building, Nainital, specialised e-governance projects and standards for-governance applications.

He said private sector IT parks have been successful and the state has the fastest growing BPO sector, with 26 BPOs, including Astra, with 500 seats already operational. HCL will commence operations by April.

The Uttaranchal government has taken initiatives to set up a world class bio-IT park on 500 acres of land abutting NH-87 that would also house a bio-incubator and engage a professional advisor to catalyse the park development based on a public-private partnership model.

Four agriculture export zones (AEZ) have been created for litchie, basmati, floriculture and aromatic and medicinal plants. The AEZ for walnut, exotic and off-season fruits and vegetables and organic produce are being set up.

The government wants to make Uttaranchal the organic capital of India and has declared it an organic state. A team of 20,000 farmers in 1,200 bio-villages are being formed. A thousand hectares has been certified as organic as per international norms, more than 75 product ranges are available, and a dedicated agency provides a single window for forward link.

Mr Chopra emphasised that for a land-locked state with limited surface connectivity, developing air connectivity was of immense importance. He said the test runs of air travel have been successful in Uttaranchal and the state aims to be among the top global tourism destinations by 2010.

He said the state had two airports at Jolly Grant and Pant Nagar, three airstrips at Chinyalisaur, Gauchan and Naini Saini and six helistrips at Yamunotri, Gangotri, Badrinath, Kedarnath, Hemkund and Haridwar.

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DLF, Punjab sign MoU for SEZ in Amritsar

Spread over 1100 acres, the entire SEZ will comprise of four sector-specific zones for the textile and garments industry (400 acres), engineering industry (350 acres), food processing industry (250 acres) and a free trade and warehousing zone (100 acres).

"DLF will be investing Rs 1,000 crore towards the development of this project. The project will also catalyse an investment of about Rs 5,000 crore in urban development and associated infrastructure. It will create over 25,000 employment," Singh said.