Chhattisgarh’s 4,000 MW project gets central nod

October 2nd, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarhs Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government Friday said is is planning to provide interest free loans to farmers. "The government plans to further lower the agriculture interest loan in the state to two percent and one percent in phase-wise manner from the existing three percent, and then reduce it to zero percent, Chief Minister Raman Singh said, according to an official press statement Friday.

September 14th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Monday approved a proposal that will put all the state's urban bodies online from January 2010. Singh approved a proposal of the urban administration department to connect all urban bodies of the state to internet for online monitoring of their work from the state's secretariat, an official statement said.

July 20th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Monday said the state's per capita debt rose to Rs.5,995 last fiscal from Rs.4,596.67 in 2003-04. He told the state assembly that the per capita debt burden was Rs.4,881.51 in 2004-05 and went up to to Rs.5,370.61 in 2006-07.

July 11th, 2009 RAIPUR - India's largest power producer NTPC, formerly National Thermal Power Corp, Sunday signed an agreement with the Chhattisgarh government for setting up a 4,000 MW coal-fired power plant on an investment of Rs.20,000 crore. Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde, who was present during signing of the pact, said the plant would be set up in the coal-rich Raigarh district.

July 6th, 2009 MUMBAI - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday allocated Rs.500 crore to the Brihanmumbai Storm Water Drainage Project designed to control floods in the city during monsoon. The Rs.1,200-crore project, entirely funded by the central government, was sanctioned Rs.500 crore last fiscal.

June 21st, 2009 CHANDIGARH - The Haryana government has sought the intervention of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to get an early clearance for the Rs.20.8 billion (Rs.2,082 crore) Delhi-Faridabad metro project from the Delhi government. "The detailed project report of Delhi-Faridabad metro project, having a length of 13.875 km, was prepared by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Limited (DMRCL).

June 20th, 2009 RAIPUR - Casualties are feared as a truck carrying several paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Chhattisgarhs restive Bastar region hit a landmine planted by suspected Maoists Saturday evening, injuring 11, a police officer said. The blast occurred in a thickly forested stretch of Tongapal in Dantewada district, some 500 km south of here, when an over 40-member search squad of CRPF men and District Force (DF) was on its way back to its base camp.

June 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) Friday gave go-ahead to the 100-MW Tripura gas-based power project, to be developed by the state-run North Eastern Electric Power Corp (Neepco). The estimated cost of the project is Rs.421.01 crore.

June 19th, 2009 RAIPUR - Maoist guerrillas shot dead two district force (DF) personnel in Chhattisgarhs Rajnandgaon district in a remote forest area Sunday morning, police said. Heavily armed Maoists attacked five police personnel in Madanwara, in Manpur locality, killing two DF cops, deputy inspector general of police Pawan Deo told IANS.

June 10th, 2009 CHENNAI - The Tamil Nadu government has sanctioned Rs.550 crore for the first phase of the Chennai Metro Rail project, Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin said here Wednesday.

May 29th, 2009 KOLKATA - With the opposition Trinamool Congress, now part of the central government, having said it would oppose the Nayachar chemical hub project, West Bengal's ruling Left Front government Friday said it had not received any notice yet from the central government to scrap it. "The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government had given us the green signal to set up the Nayachar project.

May 20th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal is keen to take up a hydel power project in Bhutan and wants the central government's help in this regard, a senior government official said here Wednesday. 'We want to set up a project, with our own investment, in Bhutan and we have asked the government of India to help us,' power secretary Sunil Mitra told reporters here.

February 8th, 2009 AIZAWL - A 460 MW hydroelectric project will be set up by state-run National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) in Mizoram, officials said here Monday. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between NTPC and the Mizoram government to commission the Rs.30 billion power project in Sahia and Lawngtlai districts of southern Mizoram.

January 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government has approved the Rs.146-billion (Rs.14,600-crore) Chennai Metro Rail project, it said here Thursday. The project will be executed by Chennai Metro Rail Ltd, a joint venture with equal equity participation from the central and state governments, which has been set up on the lines of the Delhi Metro Rail Corp (DMRC).

January 13th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Wednesday accused the Planning Commission of refusing to approve the Kochi Metro and sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 'immediate intervention'. The CPI-M said in a statement that the Planning Commission wanted 'a private party brought into the Metro Project on a Private-Public-Partnership (PPP) model ...