Development of North-Eastern Region
The Ministry of Steel
has been exempted from the requirement of earmarking 10% of its budgetary
allocation for the development of North Eastern Region.
Steel Authority of India Ltd. (SAIL)
The proposal for setting
up a Steel Processing Unit (SPU) at Guwahati, Assam was approved in
principle by SAIL Board in April, 2008. The proposed facilities and product-mix
envisaged is TMT Bar Mill of 88,000 TPA. For the Project, 31 acres of land at Tilingaon in
north Guwahati, near IIT Guwahati has been allotted to SAIL at a
cost of ` 7.97 crores. Survey of land has been completed. Barbed wire fencing
of boundary, gate and security room completed. The concessions/benefits
considered at the time of ‘in principle’ approval are not available at present.
Govt. of Assam has been requested for the concessions/ benefits regarding
income tax exemption, ED exemption and interest subsidy on working capital,
etc. After receiving the above information, the project will be reviewed for
financial viability.
Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd.
(RINL)
RINL-VSP is servicing
the North Eastern Region directly through its Branch Sales Office (BSO) at
Kolkata and the Consignment Sales Agents (CSAs) appointed at Guwahati (M/sShreeram Keshrimal)
and at Agartala (M/s S.R. Construction) to cater to the demand of
various customers in the Region. In order to promote sales in the North Eastern
Region, BSO Kolkata is extending Incentive to Project Customers of the Region.
RINL-VSP is also supplying steel products directly to Hydro-Electric, Road and
Other Projects in the North Eastern Region through VSP’s Stockyard at Kolkata
and through the Retailers based in Kolkata. RINL-VSP sold 1670 tonnes of
Saleable Steel directly from Kolkata Stockyard to North-Eastern Region during
April 2012 to December 2012.
MSTC Ltd.
MSTC does not have any
direct involvement with the North Eastern Region. But MSTC has some indirect
involvement of selling scrap of Public Sector Units and Defence units situated
in the North East such as Oil India Ltd., ONGC, BRPL, North Eastern Coalfields
Ltd. etc. and Army units at Bengdubi, Hashimara, Jorhat etc.
Generally, scrap of such units is purchased by local businessmen which
indirectly benefits the region
Hindustan Steelworks Construction Ltd.
(HSCL)
The Company has a proud
privilege of participating in the Bharat Nirman Programme of Govt. of
India in construction of rural roads in the North Eastern State of Tripura
under PMGSY. HSCL has been working as a Project Implementation Unit there with
the responsibility starting from preparation of Detailed Project Report (DPR)
to the maintenance of the roads for five years after construction. Rural roads
of Phases IV to VII under PMGSY have achieved satisfactory progress. The DPRs
for Phase-VIII for
a value of ` 204
Cr. have also been approved by NRRDA and work is progressing satisfactorily.
Number of roads completed so far is 116 out of the total scope of 177.
The present value of
work under PMGSY is about ` 700 Cr. in Tripura, which is likely to go up further
in the next phases.
In the state of
Jharkhand also, HSCL has been nominated as one of the PIUs for taking up
construction of about 1400 km of rural roads under PMGSY. DPR for this project
has so far been approved for` 280 cr. by NRRDA. The value is expected to go up
to ` 500 cr. The work in Jharkhand is progressing well.
HSCL has successfully
completed and handed over 3 Nos. of 150 bedded District Hospitals one each in
North, South and Dhalai District under Department of Health, Govt. of
Tripura. Implementation of one 100 bedded hospital at Teliamura and
Staff Quarters at the three District Hospitals are also progressing well.
The Company has signed MoU with
the Department of Health & Family Welfare Government of Mizoram for
implementation of 100-bedded civic hospital at Saiha and 50-bedded
Hospital at Lawngtlai. In addition, two auditorium projects at Champhai andLawngtlai valuing
` 25 cr. each have also been secured. Implementation of these projects
will start soon. Besides these, efforts are on to secure infrastructure
development projects in other North Eastern states including Meghalaya and
Manipur.
HSCL has successfully
completed the following two Projects in the North Eastern States of Sikkim,
which will help in infrastructure building and tourism development of the
State:
(i) Construction of
Pilgrimage Centre at Solopok, involving installation of an 108 feet tall
idol of Lord Siva and a number of shrines of Hindu deities at the hilly terrain
of picturesque Sikkim. The ‘Pranpratistha’ has been done.
(ii) Cultural Centre at
Yang Yang.
HSCL has already
expressed its willingness to take up water supply projects in Sikkim.
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