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7428 acres of govt land allotted to 64 industries in past five years

Companies paid Rs 103.77 crore as land price.

Orissa which has earned the tag of an investors’ paradise, attracting investments across sectors to the tune of over Rs 6 lakh crore in the past few years, has allotted 7428.30 acres of land to as many as 64 industries during 2005-2010.

These industries have cumulatively paid Rs 103.77 crore to the state government. Of the total of 7428.30 acres of land allotted to these industries by the state government owned Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Idco), 7138.2 acres constitute non-forest land with the remaining 290.10 acres being government forest land.

While the industries have paid Rs 98.84 crore towards non-forest land, they have forked out Rs 49.31 crore for government owned forest land in the said period. The maximum land (1657.71 acres) has been allotted in Angul district.

Other districts where land has been allotted by Idco for industrial use are Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Jharsuguda, Sambalpur, Koraput, Rayagada, Keonjhar, Jharsuguda and Sundergarh.

The maximum land allocation for any single industrial project in the past five years has been done in favour of Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL). The company has been allotted 1181.43 acres of non-forest government land at Chhendipada tehsil in Angul district a a cost of Rs 16.41 crore for its integrated steel and power complex.

Among the other mega projects, Posco India has so far been alloted 578.53 acres of non-forest government land at Kujang in Jagatsinghpur for its proposed 12 million tonne per annum greenfield steel plant. The South Korean steel major has paid Rs 1.92 crore as land acquisition cost.

Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) has been alloted 157.05 acres of non-forest government land at Burkhamunda near Jharsuguda for its aluminium smelter plant. VAL has deposited Rs 5.83 crore for land acquisition.

Aditya Aluminium Ltd, a division of Hindalco Industries Ltd, was given 702.56 acres of non-forest government land at Rengali near Sambalpur and has paid Rs 11.31 crore as land cost.

Similarly, Idco has allotted 476.15 acres of non-forest land to Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd at Hemgir in Sundergarh for the coal block.

Besides allotment of land to the industries, the diversion plan for 1418.58 hectares (3505.26 acres) of forest land for six industries has been approved and these industries have paid Rs 119.58 crore towards the forest diversion plan. Till now, compensatory afforestation has been taken up in 69.767 hectares (172.37 acres) of land.

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65827 families yet to be issued job cards under NREGS

Several irregularities in the implementation of the Centre's Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) by the Orissa government have come to the fore.

As many as 65,827 registered families in 30 districts across Orissa are yet to be provided job cards (as on September 10) under MGNREGA, according to a report of the Union ministry of rural development.

The figure includes 12990 registered families in Kendrapara district, 9917 in Bhadrak district, 7276 in Koraput district , 3576 in Balasore district, 2884 in Sambalpur district and 2100 in Jagatsinghpur district.

This apart unemployment allowance under MGNREGA has been pending for 106,446 days.

The unemployment allowance has been pending for 15881 days in Kendrapara district, 10811 days in Nabarangpur district, 9880 days in Balasore district, 9778 days in Dhenkanal district and 8548 days in Sambalpur district.

Besides, 287,243 households across the 30 districts of the state have been provided less than 15 days of employment under the programme.

The Orissa government has so far spent ' 441.12 crore out of the total available fund of ' 910.92 crore under MGNREGA. As many as 39 million mandays have been created under the programme.

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Orissa IPPs make headway in project implementation

Visa Power, Tata Power, Lanco Power, Monnet Ispat Power Company, Jindal India Thermal Power Limited and CESC Limited, the Independent Power Producers (IPPs) who had signed Memorandum of Understanding with the Orissa government in 2006 have achieved significant headway on their proposed projects in the state in the past 4-5 months.

“Tata Power has said that it will complete the land acquisition process by October this year and kick off construction work by December. The company has paid about Rs 100 crore as compensation to the land losers. Similarly, CESC has acquired around 80 per cent of the land needed for their project”, P K Jena, the state energy secretary told Business Standard after reviewing the status of the IPPs.

As many as 27 IPPs have signed MoUs with the state government with a cumulative capacity of 32,420 MW.
Tata Power which had proposed to set up a 2000 MW power plant at Naraj in Cuttack district and needed 990 acres for the power plant. The company had been allotted the Mandakini coal block with a reserve of 96.84 million tonnes of coal.

CESC's 1000 MW power plant was to come up on 1094.13 acres of land at Neulapoi in Dhenkanal district. This includes 190.39 acres of government land, 20.76 acres of forest land and 822.98 acres of private land.

Visa Power which has proposed to set up a 1000 MW power plant at Brahmanabasta-Athagarh in Cuttack district as already acquired around 50 per cent of private land needed for the project. The company expected to acquire around 65 per cent of the private land by the end of this month.

It has already been allotted 200 acres of government land. On the whole, the power project needed 1100 acres of land which included 309 cares of government land and the remaining being private land.

Lanco Power has acquired most of the land needed for its power plant and has achieved financial closure. The company is setting up a 1320 MW (2x660) power plant over 1400 acres of land at Khurunti in Dhenkanal district. It has been allocated the Rampia coal block with a reserve of 112.22 million tonnes.

Monnet Ispat Power Company Limited is almost through with the land acquisition work for its 1000 MW power project proposed to be set up at the Malibrahmani-Nisha-Chendipada stretch in Angul district on 993.42 acres of land. The company would lay the foundation stone for the project in October this year.

Similarly, Jindal India Thermal Power Plant (JITPL) has acquired 95 per cent of the land needed for its project and has also constructed the boundary wall which is 98 per cent complete. JITPL had proposed to set up a 1200 MW power plant at Derang near Talcher on 1055 acres of land. The company has been alloted the Mandakini coal block with a reserve of 96.84 million tonnes of coal.

Mahanadi Aban Power Company Limited which had not made much progress a few months back has paid compensation of Rs 80 crore to 70 per cent of the affected people. The power producer is setting up a 1030 MW power plant at Tehranpur near Talcher on 1035.98 acres of land.

The alternative sites for the power plants proposed by Viskha Thermal Power Limited and Jindal Steel & Power Limited (JSPL) are yet to be approved. Visakha Thermal Power Limited which had proposed to set up a 1100 MW power plant on 1100 acres of land at Bhandari Pokhari in Bhadrak district but the location had to be changed as the proposed location fell in the irrigated area. JSPL had sought the change of location of its proposed 1320 MW (2x60) power plant from Boinda to Paranga in Angul district.

The location for Kalinga Energy and Power Limited's 1000 MW power project had to be changed from Babuchakuli in Sambalpur district to Sodamal in Jharsuguda district. This had to be done as the 1100 acres of land identified at Babuchakli had 600 acres of forest land.

The IPPs that have entered into MoUs with the state government in 2009 and 2010 have also achieved appreciable progress.

Notification under Section 6 (1) has been issued for 362 acres of land for Sahara India Power Corporation's 1320 MW power plant to be set up at Titlagarh on 950 acres of land.

Maa Durga Thermal Power Company Limited which had signed an MoU with the state government in April 2010 for setting up a 60 MW power plant at Bianchua near Tangi in Cuttack district has acquired the entire 60-acre stretch of land needed for the project. It has also achieved financial closure for Rs 210 crore out of the total project cost of Rs 296.95 crore.

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that is almost 10,000 acres just for thermal power plants in just 4 yrs

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Nestle to invest Rs 500 crore in food processing unit

The food processing sector is gradually gaining momentum in the state. After a string of investment proposals from biggies in the sector like Britannia, ITC, Parle Agro Indo Nissin and Future Foods, another behemoth in the packaged food industry-Nestle has evinced interest in setting up a state-of-the-art food processing unit in the state at an investment of around Rs 500 crore.

The food processing facility of Nestle would be spread over 50 acres and the Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation of Orissa Ltd (Idco) has already identified land for the purpose between Bhubaneswar and Khurda, an official source told Business Standard.

Nestle India's Orissa facility will manufacture the entire gamut of the company's products including milk products, beverages, chocolates and confectionery.
Britannia Industries had recently announced that it will invest Rs 40-45 crore in setting up its second biscuit manufacturing unit in the state between Cuttack and Bhubaneswar. This unit would have a capacity to manufacture around 2500 tonnes of biscuits per month.

Presently, Britannia has a biscuit manufacturing unit at Mayurbhanj with a capacity to manufacture 1000 tonnes of biscuits per month.

Among the other big players in the food processing sector- Parle Agro's unit has been cleared by the State Level Single Window Clearance Authority while the site selection is underway for the proposed project of Indo Nissin Foods, the noodles maker.

ITC has so far remained non-responsive after initially evincing interest to invest in the food processing sector.

International, a Kolkata-based export firm had also proposed to set up a maize processing complex in south Orissa’s Nabarangapur district at an investment of around Rs 150 crore.

It may be noted that IL&FS as a consultant to help boost investments in the food processing sector. Besides offering its expertise to help boost investments in the food processing sector, IL&FS will also offer its inputs to the state government in finalizing the food processing policy which would be notified soon.

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New state-specific SEZ policy on the anvil

In a bid to widen its investment horizon and attract more investors in sectors like information technology, biotechnology, electronics, automobiles and auto component manufacturing, ship building, gems and jewellery and pharmaceuticals, the Orissa government has drawn up a plan to come out with a state specific Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Policy.

"Orissa has witnessed a rush of investment proposals for setting up of mineral based industries. Now, we intend to diversify our industrial base and have more of the investments in sectors like electronics, automobiles, biotechnology and ship building and to incentivise investors in these sectors, the state has decided to come out with its SEZ policy”, an official source told Business Standard.

A high-level meeting chaired by the state Chief Secretary B K Pattnaik was held on Friday to finalize the SEZ Policy.
Under the proposed SEZ Policy, the state government shall not encourage SEZs based on mining and minerals like iron ore, chrome ore and bauxite. However, SEZs based on the use of intermediate products like alumina for smelting, primary metals for further processing on the value chain and rare minerals like tin, limenite, nickel, platinum and vanadium will be allowed.

Moreover, the state shall not encourage SEZs based on activities like mining that cause pollution. The Orissa State Pollution Control Board shall prepare a list of such industries and the same would be notified by the state government as a negative list.

The mineral based SEZs already approved shall undertake to develop and promote related downstream industrial complexes over a minimum area as prescribed by the Government of India. In the event of non-compliance of this condition, all state concessions shall be withdrawn.

The State Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA) shall be the competent authority to screen and recommend SEZ proposals irrespective of the magnitude of investment.

All recommendations of SLSWCA would be placed before the High Level Clearance Authority for approval before making any recommendation to the Government of India.

The state government owned Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation of Orissa Limited (Ipicol) would function as the state level nodal agency for receipt, scrutiny and placement of the applications before the SLSWCA.

For sector specific projects, the respective nodal agencies like the Orissa Computer Application Centre (OCAC), Industrial Infrastructure Corporation of Orissa Limited (Idco) and Agricultural Promotion and Investment Corporation of Orissa Limited (Apicol) will receive and scrutinize the applications.

As per the SEZ Policy of the state, the import of goods and services made to SEZ units located within the processing zone from the Domestic Tariff Area shall be exempted from Value Added Tax (VAT), entry tax, electricity duty and other cess payable on sales and transactions.

The SEZ Policy of the state has not envisaged any special provisions for backward districts like Kalahandi, Bolangir and Koraput and tribal dominated areas.

Till now, four SEZs have been notified in the state- the sector specific IT/ITes SEZ at Chandaka Industrial Estate in Bhubaneswar developed by Idco, sector specific SEZ for stainless steel and ancillary downstream industries at the Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex being developed by JSL, aluminium and aluminium products SEZ at Lapanga near Sambalpur being developed by Hindalco Industries and another aluminium SEZ with Captive Power Plant being developed by Vedanta Aluminium Limited at Jharsuguda.

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6-million tonne Essar Steel plant in Orissa to be operational next month

Paradip: The 6-million tonne Essar Steel pellet plant here will be made operational by October this year. The `2,200-crore project includes an 8-MT ore beneficiation plant at Joda and Barbil and a 250-km slurry pipeline from Joda to Paradip. The company plans to expand the beneficiation and pellet manufacturing capacities to 12 MT in the future.

Initially, the company will source iron ore from private mines at Joda and Barbil. However, the company expects that the State and Central Governments will grant it lease for a captive mine in the long run.

The pellets to be produced at Paradip would be exported through the Paradip Port to Essar's steelmaking unit at Hazira in Gujarat, which is undergoing a capacity expansion to 9.6 MT from 4.6 MT by 2012, said sources.

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IOC starts work on Paradip refinery

Bhubaneswar: The Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. (IOC), which is setting up a 15 million tonne per annum (mtpa) oil refinery with an investment of Rs 29,777 crore at Paradip, has begun work on the ambitious project. It has already invested Rs 2,200 crore in the project.

The state industries minister, Raghunath Mohanty, said work for the project is going on in full swing. The project will be completed by March 2012 and the operation of the refinery would be stabilised by November 2012, he said.

The minister said IOC has already spent Rs 2,200 crore in project activities like setting up an roll-on-roll jetty, erection of power line, water treatment plant, construction of water treatment plant, coastal approach road , green belt development.

The IOC’s Paradip Oil Refinery project had been delayed by almost 10 years. In August 1999, the IOC Board approved the setting up of a 9 million tonne per annum oil refinery at Paradip in Orissa. The then prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, laid the foundation stone for the project . The project, however, could not take off because of withdrawal of sales tax incentives by the state government and also the slump in the oil market. The IOC Board in February 2009 gave its final approval for investment in the project. The project size was revised to 15 million tone and the capital cost hiked to Rs 29,777 crore.

The IOC has already commissioned the Paradip-Haldia pipeline project in 2008. The 328 km long pipeline was laid for transportation of crude from Paradip in Orissa to Haldia refinery in West Bengal with an investment of Rs 1,420 crore.

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JK Paper launches Rs 1,500 cr ramp-up project

Bhubaneswar: JK Paper on Wednesday launched its ambitious Rs 1,500 crore expansion programme at its unit, JK Paper Mills, Rayagada in Orissa. The Orissa chief minister,Naveen Patnik, graced the ground breaking ceremony held on Wedenesday in the plant premises about 20 km away from the district headquarter town of Rayagada.

The JK Paper managing director, HP Singhania, said that the ramp up programme is aimed at enhancing the production capacity of the company from the current annual capacity of 2.4 lakh tonne to 3.6 lakh tonne over the next two and half years. The company is looking at 1.5:1 debt equity ratio to fund the Rs 1,500 crore ramp-up project, he added.

The new machine at JK Paper Mills will largely be used for producing copier papers with Color Lok logo which has more rigorous quality standards. Recently, the company tied up with Hewlett Packard to get access to this technology and to market its newly packaged copier paper brands JK Copier, JK Easy Copier and Copier Plus with the logo.

"This will help the company to have the 'first mover' advantage in the office copier segment which is shifting towards digital printing," said Singhania.

The JK Paper Mill at Rayagada on Wednesday comissioned its first phase expansion programme of doubling the capacity from the original 1.2 lakh tonne to 2.4 lakh tonne per annum.

Volume sales during the April-June quarter of 2010-11, was 71,446 MT, an increase of 6.1% over 67,309 MT in the corresponding quarter the previous year.The EBIDTA margin for the quarter has gone up by around 250 basis points over last quarter (March’10). The growth in operating profit (PBIDT) was possible due to better sales realization and increased capacity utilization across all product lines, said a company spokesperson.

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Survey completed for Rs 945-crore sanitation project

The preliminary survey has been completed for the Rs 945-crore 'Orissa Integrated Sanitation Improvement Project' to be executed in the twin cities of Cuttack and Bhubaneswar and funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

According to the survey, three sewerage treatment plants would be installed at Cuttack and a network of 321 km of sewerage lines would be laid which would have a pumping capacity of 45 million litres per day (MLD).

Similarly, six sewerage treatment plants would come up in Bhubaneswar and 180 km of sewerage lines would be laid with a combined pumping capacity of 50 MLD.

The state Chief Secretary B K Pattnaik on Saturday reviewed the progress of the project. The additional development commissioner R N Senapati; finance secretary Jugal Kishore Mohapatra; principal secretary (housing and urban development) Arun Panda; water resources secretary Suresh Mohapatra; secretary (revenue and disaster management) R K Sharma and the Cuttack district collector Kishore Mohanty were present at the meeting.

It has been decided to constitute a small monitoring committee to oversee the implementation of the 'Integrated Sanitation Improvement Project'. This committee would have officials from the departments of water resources and housing and urban development as well as from railways, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and JICA.

The implementation schedule of the project is from December 2009 to February 2015.

The executing agency for the project is the Orissa Water Supply and Sewerage Board. The onus of operations and maintenance will be on Public Health Engineering Organization (PHEO), Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Cuttack Municipal Corporation (BMC).

This project requires land acquisition of 48 hectares. The project site is not located in and around an sensitive areas such as national parks, and it is likely to have a minimal adverse impact on the natural environment.

In this project, it is planned to implement measures for the operation and maintenance organization that will include reduction of the unaccounted for water, restructuring of the tariff system, financial improvement, human resources development, strengthening of public relations and public awareness activities and participation of the private sector

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Orissa asks Posco to consider alternative water source

Amidst widespread protest from different quarters including farmers, the Orissa government today said it has asked Posco to consider alternative source of water for its proposed 12 mtpa mega steel mill near Paradip.

"We have asked Posco to consider alternative source of water for its proposed steel plant,," Water Resources secretary Suresh Mohapatra told reporters here.

Posco, which was originally planning to draw water from Jobra barrage near Cuttack city to feed its steel plant, has been asked to change its plan and think of getting water from Hansua river in Jagatsinghpur instead, he said.
Mohapatra said getting water from Hansua river would be cheap for the steel major as it was barely seven kilometer from its proposed steel plant site, whereas Jobra barrage is located at about 80 km from Dhinkia area.

The company was planning to lay a pipeline between Jobra and Dhinkia area to take 125 cusec water from Mahanadi river system. The water resources department in 2006 had given permission to the company to draw water from Jobra barrage.

Mohapatra said if the company draws water from Hansua river, it would solve two purposes.

While excess water of Hansua river would be properly utilised instead of being discharged to the sea, it could also help farmers by avoiding a regular water logging over 10,000 to 15,000 hectare of agricultural field in Jagatsinghpur district, he said.

"If there is any shortage of water for the Posco project, the government can release water to the river though Taladanda canal," said a senior officer of Water Resources department.

Though the company was initially reluctant to make changes in its plan regarding the water source, it has engaged a consultancy to study feasibility on the state government's proposal of alternative water source, officials said.

Besides Opposition BJP, a number of local bodies and NGOs are opposed to the state government's agreement with Posco for supplying water from Jobra barrage.

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Farmers oppose plan to supply Hansua river water to Posco

The proposal of the Orissa government to supply surplus water from Hansua River to Posco India's proposed mega steel plant at Paradip has drawn flak from the farmers who have decided to protest this move of the government.

The activists of Nab Nirman Krushak Sangthan conducted a meeting at Redhua near Paradip while hundreds of farmers joined rallies to protest the move of the state government to supply water for the Posco project.

The farmer’s leaders like Akshaya Kumar, Soren Rout, Rashmiranjan Swain and others delivered speeches on the occasion.
They stated that Hansua is not a river but a drainage channel whose catchment’s area from Kandarpur to Erasama is 278 square miles.

Local farmers have alleged that majority of farmers of Birdi, Raghunathpur, Jagatsinghpur, Tirtol, Erasama and Balikuda have been cultivating their vegetable crops, sunflower, groundnuts, mustard, paddy and other crops by availing water from different bases of the Hansua channel.

Farmers also use the water from this channel for the transplantation of paddy crops during the Kharif season in the event of scanty rainfall and delay in supply of irrigated water through canal.

The farmers have been using lift irrigation points to pump out water from this channel to supply water for agricultural purposes. The farmers' leaders stated that nearly 35,000 ha of paddy crops of Jagatsinghpur district are getting waterlogged during the rainy season due to non release of rain water as river creeks and the Jatadhari river mouth have been choked.

Steps will be taken to renovate river creeks and to dredge Hansua channel and Jatadhari River mouth to release water so water logging would be averted properly, said Assistant engineer (drainage subdivision) of Erasama Kisoher Chandra Patra.

The supply of water to Posco through a barrage will result in water stagnation and will have serious consequences on livelihood patterns of people besides damaging the road communication infrastructure, they added.

Out of 17,806 hectares, 5003 hectares are irrigated land in Erasama area and the rest lands are non-irrigated. Hundreds of farmers use the water of this river during rabi and kharif seasons through lift irrigation points.

After supply of water to Posco, the base of this river will be dried and farmers will be deprived of pumping out water from Hansua to irrigate non –irrigated lands.

“For the sake of one company (Posco), thousands of people cannot suffer and their livelihood patterns must not be disturbed. We apprehend the people of the particular areas would not tolerate this and there might be agitations and mass movements in the district of Jagatsinghpur”, said zilla parishad member cum President of Ersama Ba Simiti, Sarada Jena

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JSL Orissa plant to be ready 3-6 before schedule: exec

Stainless steel maker JSL Stainless Ltd's new 800,000 tonne per annum plant in Orissa will become operational three-six months ahead of the schedule of March 2012, a top company official said.

"We will be doubling our capacity in a year.... Orissa will help us achieve a lot of cost-competitiveness," Arvind Parakh, director-finance, told Reuters in an interview.

At present, the company's capacity is 720,000 tonnes per annum.

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Orissa attracts Rs 98,929-crore investment in Apr-June quarter

Orissa has continued its growth momentum as a favourite destination for investors attracting investments worth Rs 98,929.49 crore in the April-June period of this fiscal. The most of these new investment proposals are in sectors like power, steel, cement, food processing and downstream industries.

The single largest investment proposal of Rs 45,000 crore has come from Strategic Energy Technology Systems Pvt Ltd for a coal to liquid project at Angul on May 12, 2010.

The bulk of the investments- Rs 33,569.25 crore has been proposed in the power sector with proposals for setting up of Independent Power Plants (IPPs) with a cumulative capacity of 7740 MW.
Ferro Alloys Corporation (FACOR) Power Limited has proposed to set up a 270 MW (2x135) coal-based thermal power plant at Haridaspur in Jajpur district. Similarly, KU Projects intends to set up a 1320 MW (2x660) power plant a Thakurpur in Sonepur district at an investment of Rs 7260 crore. This project has been cleared by the High Level Clearance Authority (HLCA) of the state government.

Similarly, Shivani Thermal Power Station of Ghaziabad (Uttar Pradesh) has proposed to set up a 1320 MW (2x660) power plant at Chhotapadagan in Cuttack district at a cost of Rs 7554.54 crore.

Visa Power has submitted a revised proposal to the state government owned Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation of Orissa Ltd (Ipicol) to set up a 1320 MW (2x660) power plant at Brahmanabasta in Cuttack district, entailing an investment of Rs 6319.48 crore.

Shri Anant Infra Energy Pvt Limited has evinced interest to set up a 210 MW coal-based power plant at Garjan Bahal in Sundergarh district.

Responsive Industries Ltd has proposed to set up a 1320 MW (2x660) power plant at Manmunda in Boud district at a cost of Rs 6487.50 crore.

CLP Power India Pvt Ltd plans to set up a 1980 (3x660) MW power plant at Majhapada in Sundergarh district at a cost of Rs 10,000 crore.

Among the investment proposals in the cement sector, Kolkata-based Icore Super cement Ltd has proposed to set up a cement plant at Somnathpur in Balasore district at an investment of Rs 151 crore.

While Ramco Industries Limited has evinced interest to set up a 120,000 tonnes per annum asbestos fibre cement sheet plant at Jharsuguda at a cost of Rs 35 crore, Madras Cement intends to set up a 4000 tonne per day cement plant at Nandibera in Malkangiri district at a cost of Rs 750 crore.

Reliance Cementation Ltd has submitted proposal for a 2.8 million tonne per annum cement plant at Jallangbara in Sundergarh district at a cost of Rs 970 crore.

Similarly, Binani Cement plans to set up a one million tonne per annum clinker grinding unit at Dhamara in Bhadrak district at a cost of Rs 130 crore.

In the steel sector, Rashmi Metalliks Limited has proposed to set up a three million tonne per annum pelletisation plant and 44 m captive power plant at Baliarpur in Bhadrak district at an investment of Rs 3465 crore.

The Orissa Minerals Development Company Limited has evinced interest for a two million tonne per annum beneficiation and pelletisation plant at Dalki in Keonjhar district at a cost of Rs 889 .

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Land acquisition takes off for Sundergarh UMPP

There is finally some headway on the 4000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) in Orissa proposed to be set up at Bhedabahal in Sundergarh district. Land acquisition work for the project has taken off.

The UMPP, entailing an investment of Rs 16,000 crore, requires 3100 acres of land. The Orissa Integrated Power Limited, a fully owned subsidiary of Power Finance Corporation (PFC), the nodal agency for UMPPs, has already invited 'Request for Qualification' (RFQ) for this project. The deadline for responding to the RFQ is September 30.

Water for this UMPP has been allocated from the Ib river and check dams and barrages would be put up on the river for this purpose. It may be noted that Meenakshi, Meenakshi-B and Dipside Meenakshi coal blocks have been allotted for the UMPP with a total reserve of 880 million tonnes.
A high-level meeting chaired by the state Chief Secretary B K Pattnaik was held on the site selection of the UMPPs. The meeting was also attended by senior officials of PFC and Central Electricity Authority (CEA).

Besides the Bhedabahal UMPP, it has been proposed to set up two additional UMPPs in the state. While the Centre had proposed to set up the second UMPP in Bolangir district, five locations were short-listed for the third UMPP- Kirtania, Dhamara, Astaranga, Paradeep and Gopalpur. The Centre has sought additional information on the suitability of these locations and the concerned departments of the state government would furnish the information on the same, said an official source.

Orissa would get 1300 MW from the first UMPP at Bhedabahal and 50 per cent of the power generated by the other two UMPPs.

The Orissa government has signed MoUs (Memorandum of Understanding) with as many as 27 Independent Power Producers (IPPs) for setting up power plants with a combined capacity of 32,420 MW. The state government had asked 17 of these IPPs to go for super critical technologies.

In addition to this, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has announced to set up two new super thermal power plants in the state- 4800 MW plant at Darlipalli in Sundergarh district and one 3200 MW plant at Gajmara in Dhenkanal district.

The navratna power utility, which has an installed capacity of 3460 MW in Orissa, will pump over Rs 50,000 crore in generating additional capacity of 9320 MW in the state by the end of 2017.

Besides establishing two mega power projects at Darlipalli and Gajamara, NTPC is also scaling up the capacity of its existing thermal power station at Talcher by adding 1320 MW (2x660 MW) through two supercritical units.

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Orissa to add 12 more specifications to UID

Bhubaneswar, Sept 30 (PTI) Orissa government today decided to include at least a dozen more specifications to the Unique Identity (UID), christened as "Aadhaar", a national project launched to document profile of every individual in the country. This was decided at a high level meeting attended by chief secretary, director census, Orissa and other officials. While UID would have details of an individual like his or her name, sex and other datas, the state government has decided to include information like card holders ration card number, BPL/APL number, NREGS data, Driving License number, PAN number, photo i-card number, passport number, kissan and credit card number, LPG consumer number, Rastriya Swasthya Vikas Yojana number, pension I-d number and pass book number. As the Central government is undertaking a big exercise to prepare UID, it would be appropriate to add some more data regarding a person, said chief secretary B K Patnaik adding that six important places in the state were identified to execute the gigantic work. Stating that the work for the bio-metric data collection for preparation of UID would start in December from eight KBK (Kalahandi-Balangir-Koraput) districts, he said demographic data capturing work had already been started by identifying as many as 95 lakh families. The people of Orissa could expect getting UID from May/June, 2011, an official said adding a sub-committee had been formed under the chairmanship of additional development commissioner (ADC) where secretaries of housing and urban development, IT, labour and employment and civil supplies and consumer welfare department, were members.The director of census will negotiate between the state government and the Centre

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SHGs in Orissa deposited Rs 290 Crore in Banks

Report by Orissa Diary correspondent; Bhubaneswar: About 50 Lakh women are involved with 4.39 lakh Self Groups organized in the state. Are successfully implementing the Social and Financial Programmes in the state. The will be more empowered from October , after implementation of the Central sponsored NRLM Programmes. The NRLM will provide infrastructures to the SHGs working under the Mission Shakti. It has been decided in a high level review meeting held in the Orissa Secretariat on the progress of the SHGs chaired by the Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

As per the information the review meeting the SHGs have deposited Rs 290 Crore in the Banks and availed credit of more than Rs 200 crores.

By the NRLM permanent infrastructure will be available in each Panchayat, Block and district level. One employee in every Panchayat, 5 employees in every Block and 7 t0 9 employees will be appointed in every district level. At least one from every family will be a member of SHG. Cluster Federation will be constituted by 15 to 20 SHGs,then Panchayat Federation and Federation will be constituted. Every SHGs will be provided Rs 15,000/- and every Federation will be provided Rs lakh.

They will be provided credit facility from Banks in 7 % interest instead of 18%. The state government will bear 25% and the centre government will bear 75% of the funds of the The NRLM .In every year the state government will invest Rs 300 to Rs 400 crore per annum. Mission Sakti Centres will be opend in every Panchayat to trained the SHGs. Mission Sakti Coordinators will be appointed in every Panchayat, Block and district level. As per the report of the review meeting Rs 25 Crore has been provided to 50 thousand SHGs and Rs 25 Crores to 100 Block federations during the year 2009-10. The PDs distribution are well managed by 7,400 SHGs. And the SHGs are managing Mid Day Mills in 48,571 schools .

Among others Chief Secretary Bijaya Patnaik, Additional Commissioner Rabi Narayan Senapaty, Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Aditya Prasad Padhi, Secretary of Womens and Child Welfare department Ahuja, Director of Mission Sakti Sujata Kartikeyan and other high level officials were present.

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Orissa to pump Rs 1200 crore to galvanise power distribution

Bhubaneswar, Oct 5 (PTI) After privatising power sector over a decade ago, the Orissa government today decided to pump Rs 1,200 crore to strengthen distribution system in order to provide quality electricity to consumers.
Though power distribution had been assigned to private parties ever since the reform, the state Cabinet decided to invest in the sector in a bid to make it viable and effective, said chief secretary B K Patnaik after the cabinet meeting.
Stating that private distribution companies would also invest equal amount to strengthen distribution system, the chief secretary said Rs 2400 crore would be spent in 4 years.
While the state government would invest Rs 500 crore from grants available from the 13th Finance Commission, rest amount would be mobilised from different sources.
The state suffers T&D (transmission and distribution) loss of about 39 per cent mostly due to old wires, ineffective transformers and other equipment. Government would distribute the amount among distribution companies basing on their consumer ratio.
"In first phase the government will allocate money to distribution companies as loan on varied interest which could later be transformed as grants basing on their performances," the chief secretary said.
The distribution companies would be given a target of reducing their T&D loss by three per cent per year. In the process, the government aimed to reduce the T&D loss by 12 per cent in next four years.

"The distribution companies which successfully reduce the T&D losses will be rewarded with transforming the loans into grant," he said.

Presently, four distribution companies - CESU (central electricity supply utility), Nesco (northen electricity company), Wesco (western electricity company) and Southco (southern electricity distribution company), were working in four different regions of the state.

While the state looked after the Cesco, three other distribution companies were being managed by the Reliance Energy.

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Phase-I of Tata Steel's Kalinganagar plant by March 2014

Tata Steel expects to commission its proposed ferroalloys plant and bar mill at its industrial park at Gopalpur by March 2013. The steel maker, which is also setting up a six million tonne per annum (mtpa) greenfield steel plant at Kalinga Nagar, expects to commission the Phase-I of the project with three mtpa capacity by March 2014.

"Our industrial park project at Gopalpur is scheduled for commissioning between October 2012 and March 2013. Similarly, the Phase-I of the Kalinga Nagar steel plant is expected to be operational between November 2013 and March 2014", H M Nerurkar, managing director of Tata Steel told reporters after emerging out of a meeting with the state Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

"I apprised the Chief Minister on the status of our projects at Gopalpur and Kalinga Nagar. The land levelling work for the Kalinga Nagar plant is underway and the company has gradually been able to build more confidence among the locals", he added.

B K Pattnaik, the state Chief Secretary, said, "Tata Steel has informed us that they are proceeding with the site levelling and boundary wall construction work for their industrial park project at Gopalpur. The company is also going to conduct roadshows to attract investors for the project. Tata Steel is coming up with a desalination plant at Gopalpur and we have asked the company to make arrangements for supplying water from this plant to the residents of Berhampur."

Tata Steel, which is playing the role of an anchor tenant for an industrial park at Gopalpur, had lined up two projects- a 50,000 tonne per annum ferroalloys plant and 4,00,000 tonne per annum bar mill there.

The company would invest Rs 1,000 crore on these two projects which would initially create employment for 1000 people.

While the ferroalloys plant will cost about Rs 200 to 250 crore, the bar mill will be set up at an investment of Rs 750 to Rs 800 crore. This will be the third ferroalloys plant of Tata Steel in Orissa.

The company is operating two ferroalloys plants at Bamanipal and Athgarh (through its subsidiary Rawmet) with capacities of 50,000 tonnes per annum each.

For the bar mill, the company intends to get the ingots from Jamshedpur by rail and road. Similarly, the company will source raw material for the ferroalloys plant, which will be a backward integration project for the proposed six million tonne plant at Kalinganagar, from its chromite mines in Sukinda valley.

It may be noted Tata Steel had acquired 3,700 acres (including 500 acres for the rehabilitation colony) in mid 1990s for setting up of a 10 million tonne steel plant at Gopalpur. However, it shelved the project and the land was lying vacant.

The company later proposed to set up special economic zone (SEZ) on this patch of land and also got in principle approval from the Centre for the purpose.

Meanwhile, the company has already invested Rs 1500 crore on its Kalinga Nagar steel project.

It has placed equipment orders worth Rs 6300 crore and equipment like blast furnace and steel melting shop (SMS) have already arrived and are stored at the company's 'Incoming Material Section' spread over 40 acres within the plant site.

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Adani to invest Rs10k cr in coal mine development, power plant in Orissa

Ahmedabad: Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL), the flagship firm of Ahmedabad-based Adani Group, which has been selected as mine developer and operator (MDO) for development and operation of the Chendipada coal block in Orissa by UCM Coal Company Ltd, plans to invest Rs10,000-11,000 crore in a 2,000 MW pit-head power project and for the development and operation of the block. This also includes the setting up of a coal washery.

The block has a mining capacity of 40 million tonnes per annum (MTPA).

The coal ministry had allotted the Chendipada coal block in Talcher coalfield, Orissa, with reserves of about 1,600 million tonnes jointly to Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd (UPRVUNL), Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Corporation Ltd (CMDC) and Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Ltd (Mahagenco) for the captive mining of coal.

The three formed the joint venture company UCM for the development and mining of the Chendipada coal block, the company said in a statement.

The 11-12 million coal rejects from the washery will be used to fire the 2,000 MW power plant.

“This project will help us accomplish our target for 2020. We aim to implement 20,000MW of power generation, 200 million tonnes of mining contracts, besides scaling up our cargo handling capacity to 200 million tones per annum, all of which we aim to achieve by 2020,” said Gautam Adani, chairman of Adani Enterprise Ltd.

Adani will hold an 89% stake and UCM 11% in the yet to be named power company.

Under the contract, Adani will develop and operate the coal block. This will include land acquisition, roads and rail links, preparation of mine plans, approvals and clearances, coal mining, setting up of the coal washery, establishing railway sidings and delivering washed coal to end users at the designated power stations in UP, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra.

In the recent past, the Adani group won competitive bidding tenders as MDO for total mining capacity of 70 MTPA of Mahaguj Collieries Ltd., Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Ltd. and Chhattisgarh State Power Generation Co Ltd. for various coal blocks in Orissa and Chhattisgarh state. With this, Adani has total a 110 MTPA of coal mining contracts in India, which makes it one of the largest mining companies in the Indian private sector.

The coal production will commence within 42-48 months from these mines.

In August, AEL, announced the acquisition of the Galilee Basin coal mine in Queensland, Australia, for about Rs12,600 crore in a cash and royalty deal. As part of the buyout deal, the group had paid Rs2,100 crore in cash and is to make an additional payment of about Rs10,500 crore over the next 20-year in royalties to Linc on the estimated 7.8 billion tonnes of coal reserves. In October, AEL announced the investment of $6.9 billion in developing this coal mine. The company is targeting the first coal from this by the end of 2014 and total production to reach 50-60 MMTPA by 2022.

On the power front, Adani has already commissioned 990 MW at Mundra and plans to add another 330 MW by mid-November, the trial run for which is currently on.

Apart from the Chendipara power project, Adani has already lined up 16,500 MW of coal-based power projects at various locations in Gujarat including Mundra (4620 MW), Bhadreshwar (3300) and Dahej (2640 MW). The company is also in the process of implementing power projects in other states including Tiroda (3300 MW) in Maharasthra, Kawai in Rajasthan (1320 MW) and Chhindwada in Madhya Pradesh (1320 MW). The company also has approvals in places for setting up a 2,000 MW gas fired power project.

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Orissa attracts investments worth Rs51963.54 crore

Orissa which has earned the tag of an 'investors' paradise', attracting investments of over Rs six lakh crore in the past five years, continues to attract investors across sectors.

The state has attracted investments worth Rs51963.54 crore in the July-September quarter of 2010-11, reinforcing its image as an investor friendly destination.

The bulk of the investments have been in the steel and energy sectors. Of the 22 proposals that the state has received in the July-September period of this fiscal, seven have been in the energy sector followed by six in the steel and mines sector and three in the cement sector.
Investment proposals in the energy sector have been to the tune of Rs32024.76 crore with a cumulative capacity of 5175 Mw. Hecate Power Company Ltd has proposed to set up a 1080 Mw (4x270) thermal power plant in Bolangir district at a cost of Rs5350 crore.

Samvijaya Power and Allied Industries Ltd has proposed to set up a 1320 Mw (2x660) thermal power plant at Rampela in Jharsuguda district at an investment of Rs6828.38 crore.

Another power firm- Arissan Energy Ltd has also proposed to set up 1320 Mw (2x660) thermal power plant at the same location, entailing an investment of Rs6828.38 crore.

Similarly, Action Ispat and Power Ltd has evinced interest in setting up a 1320 Mw (2x660) thermal power plant at Puruna Pani in Boudh district at a cost of Rs8079.74 crore.

Embassy Nirman Pvt Ltd has proposed to set up a 135 Mw coal based power plant at Ghantikhal in Cuttack district at an investment of Rs618 crore.

Moser Baer Power and Infrastructures Ltd has proposed to put up a 1320 Mw (2x660) power plant in Bolangir district at a cost of Rs7400 crore.

Sonepur Energy and Oil City Pvt Ltd has lined up an investment of Rs5000 crore in setting up a gas processing plant and petrochemical complex at Sonepur in Ganjam district.

In the steel sector, ARSS Steel & Power Ltd has proposed to set up a three million tonne per annum (mtpa) steel plant at Boinda in Angul district, involving an investment of Rs10900 crore.

Similarly, Neepaz B C Dagara Steels Pvt Ltd, has planned to set up a 0.4 mtpa integrated steel plant and a 45 Mw captive power plant (CPP) at Rairangpur in Mayurbhanj district at a cost of Rs1152 crore.

International Minerals Trading Company Pvt Ltd has proposed to set up an iron ore fines beneficiation plant at Barbil in Keonjhar district at a cost of Rs150 crore.

In the cement sector, Visa Cement Ltd intends to set up a portland cement plant at Bargarh at a cost of Rs1840 crore. Jaipur Cements Pvt Ltd has proposed to set u a 0.5 mtpa cement grinding plant at Kalinganagar in Jajpur district at a cost of Rs63.50 crore.

Bhushan Infrastructure Ltd has planned an integrated township at Mangalpur in Dhenkanal district at an investment of Rs425 crore. J K Paper Ltd plans to set up a paper board plant at Jaykaypur in Rayagada district at a cost of Rs1475 crore

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Sesa Goa plans to join Sterlite for Orissa steel plant

Bhubaneswar: Vedanta Resources-controlled mining major Sesa Goa is proposing to join Sterlite Industries (India) to set up a 5-million-tonne steel plant in Orissa.

According to sources in the Orissa government's steel & mines department, Sesa Goa has submitted a proposal to join SIL and set up the steel plant in the state. Sterlite Industries, a group company of Vedanta Resources, signed an MoU with the Orissa government on October 15, 2004, to set up a 5-mtpa steel plant in Orissa for an investment of Rs 12,502 crore. The project, which will come up at Palaspanga in iron ore-rich Keonjhar district, will be promoted by Sterlite Iron & Steel Company, the steel arm of SIL. In fact, the company has acquired about 50 acre at the proposed site.

On the eve of acquiring the country’s largest iron ore mining company in April 2007, Vedanta Resources chairman Anil Agarwal had said, “It is the next logical step. It is too early to contemplate on the size of the steel plant but generally downstream steel plants are in the size of 5 to 10 million tonne per annum. We may go in for a JV to set up the plant for access to technology because mining and steel manufacturing are different business."

With Sesa Goa joining SIL, Vedanta Resources may enhance the capacity of the plant. The company may look for a plant of 12 mt instead of the present 5 mt, sources said.

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