One More Corridor:: Hyderabad-Krishna-Deccan Corridor

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పారిశ్రామిక కారిడార్ ఏర్పాటుకు వ్యతిరేకంగా ఉద్యమం

చీరాలటౌన్, జూన్ 4 (ఆన్‌లైన్) : మ త్స్యకారుల జీవితాలకు ముప్పు గా మారిన పారిశ్రామిక కారిడార్ ఏర్పాటును వ్యతిరేకంగా ఉద్యమాలు మొదలుకానున్నాయి. సి.పి.ఐ. ఎం. ఎల్. న్యూడెమోక్రసీ ఆధ్వర్యంలో ఈ నెల 12న చీరాల వ్యతిరేక సదస్సులు నిర్వహిస్తున్నట్లు సి.పి.ఐ. ఎం.ఎల్. న్యూ డెమోక్రసీ నాయకులు బుధవారం స్థానిక గోలి సదాశివరావు కళ్యాణమండపంలో విలేకర్ల సమావేశం ఏర్పాటు చేసి వెల్లడించారు.

న్యూ డెమోక్రసీ గుంటూరు, ప్రకాశం జిల్లా కార్యదర్శులు ట్టిపాటి వెంకటేశ్వర్లు, ఎన్.బ్రహ్మయ్యలు మాట్లాడుతూ ని జాంపట్నం నుంచి మోటుపల్లి వరకు పారిశ్రామిక కారిడార్ పేరుతో ప్రభు త్వం అరబ్ఎమిరేట్‌కు చెందిన రసూల్ ఆల్ ఖిమా, మ్యాట్రిక్ సంస్థలకు గుంటూరులో 10వేల ఎకరాలు, ప్రకాశంలో ఎనిమిది వేల ఎకరాల భూమి కట్టబెట్టేందుకు పనిగా పెట్టుకుందని విమర్శించారు. విదేశీ పెట్టుబడుల కోసం మత్స్యకార గ్రామాలను ఖాళీ చే యించడం అన్యాయమన్నారు.

భూ ములు సేకరించడానికి జిల్లా కలెక్టర్ స్వయంగా రంగంలోకి దిగి అవగాహన సదస్సుల పేరిట ఖాళీ చేయక తప్పదని బెదిరింపులు చేస్తున్నారన్నారు. మత్స్యకారులకు ఉపాధి, ప్రతి ఇంటికి ఉద్యోగం ఇస్తామని చెప్పడం మోసపూరితమన్నారు. నె ల్లూరు జిల్లాలో అపాచి కంపెనీ ఏర్పాటైతే 35 వేల ఉద్యోగాలు ఇస్తామని చివరకు 3వేల ఉద్యోగాలిచ్చారని, వీరిలో కూడా 70 శాతం చెన్నైకి చెందిన వారన్నారు. అలానే పారిశ్రామిక కారిడార్‌లలో కూడా స్థానికులకు అవకాశం ఇవ్వరన్నారు. ప్రజల జీవనోపాధిని దెబ్బతిసే కోస్తా కారిడార్‌ను అందరూ వ్యతిరేకించాలన్నారు.

బహుళజాతి సంస్థలకు వేలాది ఎకరాలు కట్టబెట్టేది కేవలం రియల్ ఎస్టేట్ వ్యాపారానికి మాత్రమేనన్నారు. మత్స్యకారుల బతుకులను చిన్నాభిన్నం చేసే కారిడార్‌కు వ్యతిరేకంగా గుంటూరు, ప్రకాశం జిల్లాల్లోని మత్స్యకార గ్రామస్తులతో చీరాలలో ఈ నెల 12న కారిడార్ వ్యతిరేక ఉధ్యమాలను నిర్వహిస్తున్నట్లు సి.పి.ఐ ఎం.ఎల్ న్యూ డెమోక్రసి నాయకులు తెలిపారు. ఈ సమావేశంలో అఖిలభారత రైతుకూలి సంఘం జిల్లా కార్యదర్శి కొంగర నరసింహం, మే కల ప్రసాద్, పద్మ, యేసమ్మ, శ్రీను, సుధాకర్, రాజు, రమేష్ తదితరులు పాల్గొన్నారు.

PCPIR >> A Jaggernaut along the Kakinada-Visakhapatnam Coast

The scale, the plans, the effort involved in the creation of PCPIR are unprecedented and unheard of anywhere in India. It is sure to transform many lives if the plans materialize...

AP asks Center for 5500 Crores for PCPIR

Centre’s Nod to Petro-Chem region in Andhra Pradesh

Hyderabad, May 22: The Centre has approved the first Petro Chemical Investment Region in the country to be set up between Visakhapatnam and Kakinada. A high-level official committee — headed by the Union Cabinet secretary, Mr M. Chandrasekhar, met at New Delhi on May 21 and cleared the state's proposal.

Though the committee was supposed to give a green signal to the proposal last week, the meeting was postponed due to Jaipur blasts. “The committee gave the approval and the same would be put for the Cabinet’s clearance,” the managing director of the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation, Mr B.P. Acharya, told this correspondent. The Petro Chemical Investment Region will be set up in 74,000 acres and the projected investment in the region is Rs 3 lakh crore.

Mega Plan for Industrial Corridor in Andhra Pradesh

Deccan Chronicle -Kakinada, May 19: The government plans to spent Rs 20,000 crore to develop ‘linkages’ for the industrial corridor between Kakinada and Visakhapatnam. These include roads, railways, airports, ports and other external infrastructure.

The proposal has got the nod of the Centre a few days ago. Under this project, a 138 km-long coastal corridor will be built between Kakinada Port and Gangavaram Port (near Vizag) with six-lane roads and pipeline corridor at a cost of Rs 1,062 crore. In the subsequent phases the link road will be converted into an eight-lane road by spending Rs 875 crore.

As part of the programme, the present Asian Development Bank-sponsored road will be converted as a four-lane road between Kathipudi and Kakinada Port in an extent of 51.07 km. In addition to this, the National Highway 214 will be developed into four-lane road from the present two-lane at a cost of Rs 260 crore.

Later, it will be developed into a six-lane road at a cost of Rs 387 crore.As part of the industrial corridor development, the existing NH 5 will be developed into six-lane road for 190 km between Rajahmundry and Visakhapatnam.

In addition to this, the other external road links will be provided with Rs 512 crore. In all, Rs
4,021 crore will be spent on the road development activity as part of Industrial corridor project. For the development of rail links Rs 1,010 crore will be spend in the corridor. A rail link of 26 km will be taken up at a cost of Rs 102 crore between APSEZ and Gangavaram.For the provision of rail freight stations and for Gangavaram Port logistics Rs 730 crore will be utilised.

Further, authorities are allocating Rs 2,640 crore for developing airports in the region. This would include the development of the new Visakhapatnam International Airport with Rs 2,000 crore and the upgradation of Rajahmundry airport at Rs 120 crore. These proposals were discussed at a meet held recently by the Infrastructure Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh with allied departments.

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AP looking at integrating infrastructure development

Hyderabad, May 19, 2008: The Andhra Pradesh Government is looking at integrating infrastructure development for the proposed Costal Corridor and the Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) projects.

“Since the first phase of the proposed Costal Corridor will be from Visakhapatnam to Kakinada, where the PCPIR project is slated to come up, the State Government is looking at developing work relating to basic infrastructure simultaneously,” Mr Sanjay Jaju, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of Infrastructure Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (INCAP), told Business Line here today.

Mr Jaju also said that International Finance Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank, will implement the road projects in the area. He added that they got a feel of what the development in the area will look like once the project is implemented.

PCPIR project

A Government official also said that a meeting of the committee of Union Secretaries is slated for May 21 in New Delhi, to take a final decision on the PCPIR project which would in turn be recommended to the Cabinet for the final approval within the next one month.

Andhra Pradesh has turned out to be one of the prime contenders for the proposed PCPIR being envisaged by the Central Government.

The project in Andhra Pradesh is estimated to attract investments to the tune of around Rs 3 lakh crore and as per current estimates the State has more than half of the total investment envisaged for the project.

“IDFC is the consultant for the Chennai-Bangalore-Mumbai industrial corridor and we have had a meeting with them so that our proposal can be studied,” he said referring to the State proposal to join the project.

Initial plan

According to initial plan, the State Government is proposing development stretch from Satyavedu to Chennai and also development of Nellore to Bangalore region covering Rajampet, Kadapa, Ananthapur and Hindupur.

As per Government estimates, the total corridor in Andhra Pradesh is likely to cover 300 km.

Source:
Business Line

HPCL-Mittal Energy : Total Consortium to fuel 3.5 L cr Investment in Petro Hub

20 May, 2008

NEW DELHI: A cabinet secretary-chaired panel last week cleared the first mega oil, chemical and petrochemical investment hub, which is expected to attract an investment of Rs 3,43,000 crore.

Mittal Energy Investments, Total SA of France and oil refining and marketing major Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL) would invest Rs 32,000 crore in the proposed petroleum, chemical and petrochemical investment region (PCPIR) which the Andhra Pradesh government has proposed in the Vishakhapatnam-East Godavari region.

The Cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) is expected to consider the proposal on Thursday to give it the final go-ahead before the companies start construction work. The state government has a small administrative step to complete the process: notify the 603-sq km area as the petroleum, chemical and petrochemical hub, it is learned.

The massive investment — half of which has been committed by the investors — is expected to change the face of the southern state with anticipated exports of Rs 58,000 crore a year, tax receipts of Rs 46,500 crore a year and creation of 12 lakh jobs. The investment region is expected to account for 9% of the total value of goods and services produced in the state.

The Rs 32,000-crore investments by the HPCL-Mittal Energy-Total SA consortium will be the anchor tenant in the investment region, with numerous manufacturing units in the pharmaceutical, chemical, petrochemical and other specialised downstream industries coming up around it.

The consortium will set up a 15 million metric tonne a year (mmtpa) refining-cum-petrochemical complex at the Andhra Pradesh SEZ within the region. Besides this, HPCL is expected invest another Rs 10,000 crore to double its existing 7.5 mmtpa refining capacity in the region. Public sector refining major Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) would invest Rs 31,000 crore to set up a refinery and polypropylene unit in Kakinada SEZ.

The plan is to develop a number of SEZs, industrial parks, infrastructure projects and free trade and warehousing zones in the Vishakhapatnam-East Godavari region. While the central government is expected to provide financial support of Rs 5,214 crore for building roads, ports and airports, Andhra Pradesh intends to invest Rs 2,132 crore in building infrastructure. The state will also facilitate private sector participation in infrastructure creation at a cost of Rs 10,565 crore, it is understood.

Source: Economic Times

AP signs MoU with Ras-Al-Khaimah for integrated industrial corridor

The Andhra Pradesh government has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ras-Al-Khaimah Investment Authority to promote an integrated industrial corridor spreading over 26 kms between Nizampatnam and Vodarevu marine ports on the east-coast.

Speaking to media, state’s minister for infrastructure M Venkata Ramana Rao said that the overall cost of the project is about Rs 16,800 crore ($4.35 billions approx).

The proposed project will be completed in the next 6 years period in phases, he added.

The project include development of Nizampatnam and Vodaravu ports, establishment of power complex, industrial corridor and creation of infrastructure facilities all along the coastline connecting both the ports.

The MoU was signed by Khatar Massaad, CEO, Investment Authority, government of Ras-Al-Khaimah and KV Brahmananda Reddy, special secretary, department of infrastructure & investments here on Tuesday.

The project will be developed jointly by RAS-Investment Authority and Hyderabad-based Matrix Enport Private Ltd in the ratio of 51:49 respectively. Rao said that the state government has agreed to provide 10,000 acres of land for the project. “We are in the process of acquiring the land, besides a portion of revenue land will also be extended for the purpose,” he added.

The proposed project may be the first port-based industrial corridor in the country. There is also a proposal to set up a gas-based 2,100 MW power plant and oil refineries across the corridor to attract major industries.

Source:
Financial Express