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| Japan signs pact with 3 Indian States |
| 2010-04-30 |
| Major Japanese consultants on Friday entered into joint pacts with DMICDC and three State governments to develop eco-friendly infrastructure for the new cities planned in the USD 90 billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). The DMIC, comprising six states -- Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh -- is being developed in collaboration with Japan as a manufacturing and trading hub. Under the four Memorandums of Understanding (MoU), Japanese consultants will launch feasibility studies to set up the first set of ‘smart communities' in Manesar-Bawal (Haryana), Dahej and Changodar (Gujarat) and Shendra (Maharashtra). A host of Japanese companies like Hitachi, Mitsubishi Corporation, Toshiba, JGC, Itochu and Tokyo Electric Power Company will be part of the consortiums conducting the feasibility studies. “We have reached a stage where we can say this project will be taken to its conclusion,' Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said after the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation Ltd (DMICDC), the three state governments and the Japanese consultants signed the MoUs. The DMIC project was planned in 2006. During the visit of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama here in December, 2009, a MoU was signed between DMICDC and the Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) to develop smart communities or eco cities in India. “This (DMIC) is perhaps the biggest infrastructure project taken up anywhere in the world,' Sharma said. The first phase is expected to be completed by 2018. Once the project is completed, it would generate huge employment opportunities, double India's industrial production and quadruple exports, the minister said. Development of such cities assumes significance as increased economic growth is likely to put additional pressure on environmental resources. A smart community is a city where the residents, business and government live and work in a sustainable manner through delivery of integrated, low carbon products and services, DMIC CEO and Managing Director Amitabh Kant said. A total of 24 investment zones have been planned in the DMIC region, with seven likely to be completed in the first phase. The region has been projected to grow at a compounded annual rate of 13 per cent. The development plan for the Ahmedabad-Dholera investment region in Gujarat has been completed, while the overall perspective plan for the entire region has also been approved. Kant said to meet the power requirements of the region, power projects are being established in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #1 ION INDJUH, NEWS KERALA > INDIA TO FLUSH OUT NORTHEAST REBELS FROM BURMA [see Below]; + BURMA ARMY ATTACKED BY CEASEFIRE SHAN UNITED ARMY + HUNDREDS FLEE STATE OF WAR IN SHAN STATE. * SAME IRRAWADDY: PLA DEPLOYS MORE TROOPS ALONG BURMA BORDER. Force equivalent of roughly FIVE PLA BRIGADES INCLUD AIR DEFENSE UNITS??? * NEWS KERALA > HAKEEMULLAH EVEN IFF ALIVE NOT IN CHARGE OF PAK TALIBAN [TTP]: US PENTAGON. The USDOD believes someone new is running the TTP for time being as BIG-CAMEL/BURQUA-IN-CHARGE, as Mehsud may also be personally seriously wounded or injured after surviving the UAV drone strike agz him??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-04-30 23:52 |