Source: Deccan Herald
While West Bengal is dithering over the policy of land acquisition for industrial development in the state, the Karnataka government has completed the land acquisition process for the integrated Tata Steel and Tata Metaliks project at Haveri district.
“The Karnataka government has acquired 2,500 acres at Haveri for the integrated plant of Tata Steel and Tata Metaliks,” Tata Steel vice-president (Corporate Services) Partha Sengupta told reporters on the sidelines of Global Investors’ Meet, 2012, roadshow of Karnataka industry and tourism ministries.
“The coal needed for the three million-tonne plant, to be operational in two years, will be imported. Iron ore will be sourced locally,” Sengupta said.
Speaking on the occasion, Commissioner of Industries of Karnataka government M Maheshwar Rao said: “The State government’s policy on land acquisition is to give compensation at market rates. Information Technology, biotechnology and aerospace were the three top industries where the State is on top. There are more than 500 multinational companies operating out of Karnataka, of which 80 belonged to the Fortune 500 list.
“The State has 58 Special Economic Zones creating more than 97,000 jobs.”
The press conference was a curtain raiser by the Karnataka government to woo investments from West Bengal by organising road shows ahead of the Global Investors Meet 2012 to be held in Bangalore in June this year.
“We welcome investments from industrialists of West Bengal in Karnataka,” Minister for Large and Small Industries Murugesh B Nirani said.
Notices have been issued to the farmers for acquiring 2,500 acre of land for Tata company’s proposed plant in Haveri. As many as 250 farmers will lose their land if the government goes ahead with the acquisition process. The land for the proposed factory is yet to be acquired.
The Tata company recently sponsored a trip for farmers to Jamshedpur and about 40 farmers visited the Tata plant to see its working and the welfare programmes taken up by the company for the affected farmers there.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
IBM to set up office in Hubli
Source: The Hindu
The city, which is looking forward to inviting new Information Technology companies to improve the employment opportunities for software professional from this part of the country, has a good news in the form of software giant IBM, deciding to open an office in Vijayawada too during current calendar year. According to information the IBM will open 13 new branches in Kanpur, Patna, Ranchi, Nasik, Goa, Mysore, Vadodara, Hubli, Udaipur, Rajkot, Trichy, Vijayawada and Jammu, as part of their geographic expansion initiative of having their presence in 47 cities across India and South Asia.
When contacted the IBM officials did not confirm the news, but also did not deny. In 2011, they had launched 12 new branches. at Coimbatore, Indore, Guwahati, Raipur, Dehradun, Visakhapatnam, Trivandrum, Jamshedpur, Ludhiana, Surat, Nagpur and Mangalore. This will not only enhance IBM's client and partner relationships, but also improve their ability to deliver software solutions, technologies and services close to the client's location.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
[Bellary] BUDA to acquire 100 acres to develop new layouts
Source: The Hindu
The general body of the Bellary Urban Development Authority (BUDA), which met here on Monday, approved the acquisition of land for development of layouts.
Chairman of the authority Vinodkumar presided over the meeting.
During the meeting, the participants were informed that farmers had offered to part with about 100 acres of land for the layouts. The farmers had been made aware of the BUDA rules. They had been told that as per Government directions, sites developed in the new layouts would be shared between landowners and BUDA in the ratio of 40:60.
Steps would soon be taken to estimate the cost of developing the layouts, conduct a feasibility study, and if found viable, a proposal would be sent to the Government for approval.
A proposal to construct two roads, estimated to cost Rs. 10 crore, which would be shared by both BUDA and the city corporation, was approved. While one road was proposed from T.B. Sanatorium to National Highway 63, the other one would be between the residence of the Superintendent of Police and the judges' quarters.
Other proposals
Proposals for completing an underground drainage system and civil works in Venkataram Nagar, fencing parks in Vijayanagar, Siddarth and Inna Reddy colonies, Gopalagowda Nagar Stage II, Tekur Subramanyam Park, and installation of lights in the cultural complex were approved.
Mr. Vinodkumar said that the authority wanted to acquire about 100 acres for developing layouts and allot sites to the poor. He said that a proposal to construct 90 commercial shops in the vacant space available on the BUDA office premises was unanimously approved.
G. Somashekara Reddy, MLA; Mrutyunjaya Jinaga, MLC; Amlan Aditya Biswas, Deputy Commissioner; D.L. Narayan, BUDA commissioner; and Murgannanavar, Deputy Superintendent of Police, were present.
Dharwad's truck terminal likely to be ready soon
Source: The Hindu
The truck terminal at the Belur Industrial Area, near here, is expected to be ready for use by March.
It has been constructed by D. Devaraj Urs Truck Terminal Corporation Ltd. at a cost of Rs. 7.82 crore, and would be the first truck terminal in north Karnataka and the second in the State.
The first one was inaugurated in Mysore recently. The terminal is coming up on eight acres beside the main road of the industrial area.
It is expected to provide a safe and well-equipped parking facility for trucks and other heavy vehicles entering the industrial area.
At present, these vehicles are being parked on the roadside and the drivers lack proper facilities.
Unsystematic parking of vehicles is also creating traffic problems. Govind Tejwadekar, engineer in-charge of the project, said the truck terminal could accommodate 183 vehicles and 40 trailers at a time.
The terminal has a cafeteria, and a dormitory that can accommodate 100 drivers.
Space
“Space has been provided for a petrol station and a police station. Attention has also been given to ensure greenery. As many as 120 shade giving saplings have been planted and a garden is being developed on the terminal's premises,” Mr. Tejwadekar said.
Work on the terminal commenced in September 2010 and was expected to be completed in a year.
Mr. Tejwadekar said that the actual works started only by March last year as the site selected for the project was slushy.
“It took around six months to fill the land. Besides, certain changes in the original plan were made at the last minute. This delayed the completion of the work,” he said.
User-fee
It has been planned to maintain the terminal by collecting user-fee . Sources said a final decision would be taken upon completion of the work.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Centre to fund project reports for intelligent transport system - Hubli Included
Source: The Hindu
The Union Urban Development Ministry will fund 80 per cent of the cost of preparing master plan/ detailed project report for intelligent transport system (ITS) in important cities across the country, including those in Karnataka.
A senior Ministry official announced this at the concluding session of a seminar on ITS jointly organised by UDD, governments of Japan and Karnataka here on Friday. Karnataka was keen on implementing ITS initially in three cities — Mysore, Bangalore and Hubli-Dharwad.
“Let the experience in these cities be pilot projects as Karnataka has been the role model for other,” the official said.
The seminar was attended by many big names in the field of electronics from Japan, which is keen on implementing ITS in India, particularly the southern States.
Addressing these companies, the official said that low-cost technology is abundantly available to develop ITS. “If you are keen on implementing ITS in India, you should deploy low-cost technology. The companies will not lose anything because the volumes of deployment are very high,” he said.
At the same time, the companies should explore to make the best utilisation of the existing infrastructure such as mobile telephone network, he suggested.
Also, the companies should be prepared to set up manufacturing units in India by creating Indian subsidiaries, as the country is keen on developing indigenous technology as well as creation of employment.
On the role of Japan International Cooperation Agency, which has been funding various projects in India, he urged the agency to fund certain pilot projects of ITS in India, to test the proof of concept.
The agency may fund preparation of detailed project reports and support the national architecture for ITS which is being developed by UDD. The next phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, which may be launched this year, will include funding ITS.
Commissioner, Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT), Karnataka, V. Manjula, said that a few initiatives of ITS are being adopted in the State, including B-TRAC in Bangalore and the World Bank-funded ITS in Mysore. She said that integration of information and communication technology with the transport infrastructure, vehicles and users, will help people to make more informed travel choices even as it helps improve traffic flow.
Throughout the day, representatives from Japanese companies Nippon Koei, ITS Japan, Zero-Sum Wireless Solutions, East Nippon Expressway Company, Toshiba, Hitachi, Nagoya Electric Worksco, Mitsubushi Heavy Industries and Toyota Tshusho Electronics made presentations on different aspects of ITS.
Yasuhiro Okumura from Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Taro Okawa from JICA were present.
The Union Urban Development Ministry will fund 80 per cent of the cost of preparing master plan/ detailed project report for intelligent transport system (ITS) in important cities across the country, including those in Karnataka.
A senior Ministry official announced this at the concluding session of a seminar on ITS jointly organised by UDD, governments of Japan and Karnataka here on Friday. Karnataka was keen on implementing ITS initially in three cities — Mysore, Bangalore and Hubli-Dharwad.
“Let the experience in these cities be pilot projects as Karnataka has been the role model for other,” the official said.
The seminar was attended by many big names in the field of electronics from Japan, which is keen on implementing ITS in India, particularly the southern States.
Addressing these companies, the official said that low-cost technology is abundantly available to develop ITS. “If you are keen on implementing ITS in India, you should deploy low-cost technology. The companies will not lose anything because the volumes of deployment are very high,” he said.
At the same time, the companies should explore to make the best utilisation of the existing infrastructure such as mobile telephone network, he suggested.
Also, the companies should be prepared to set up manufacturing units in India by creating Indian subsidiaries, as the country is keen on developing indigenous technology as well as creation of employment.
On the role of Japan International Cooperation Agency, which has been funding various projects in India, he urged the agency to fund certain pilot projects of ITS in India, to test the proof of concept.
The agency may fund preparation of detailed project reports and support the national architecture for ITS which is being developed by UDD. The next phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, which may be launched this year, will include funding ITS.
Commissioner, Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT), Karnataka, V. Manjula, said that a few initiatives of ITS are being adopted in the State, including B-TRAC in Bangalore and the World Bank-funded ITS in Mysore. She said that integration of information and communication technology with the transport infrastructure, vehicles and users, will help people to make more informed travel choices even as it helps improve traffic flow.
Throughout the day, representatives from Japanese companies Nippon Koei, ITS Japan, Zero-Sum Wireless Solutions, East Nippon Expressway Company, Toshiba, Hitachi, Nagoya Electric Worksco, Mitsubushi Heavy Industries and Toyota Tshusho Electronics made presentations on different aspects of ITS.
Yasuhiro Okumura from Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Taro Okawa from JICA were present.
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