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Tata Steel’s progress in Orissa

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Economic Times reports that Tata Steel has put in an order of 4000 crores for its Kalinganagar steel plant. Following are some excerpts from that report.

Tata Steel’s ambitious 6-million-tonne-per-annum project in Orissa, central to its synergy plans with subsidiary Corus, has finally taken off with the company placing orders worth Rs 4,000 crore for the upcoming steel plant. 

The company, the largest steel manufacturer in the country, had signed an MoU with the Orissa government in 2004 for setting up a Rs 15,000-crore complex that will produce slabs and hot rolled coils.

Opposition from locals and official apathy delayed the project which was to come up in the Kalinganagar Industrial Complex of Jajpur district. …

In two separate announcements earlier this week, L&T said it is supplying and installing sinter plant and blast furnace valued at Rs 1,070 crore and Rs 980 crore, respectively for Tata Steel’s project.

Apart from the sinter plant and blast furnace, the company has also placed orders for steel melting shop and slab caster. “The total value of orders placed is over Rs 4,000 crore. We expect to start construction by the year end or early next year,” said Tata Steel spokesperson.

He added that the first phase of the project is expected to be commissioned by 2010. “Tata Steel Parivar — the resettlement and rehabilitation scheme — is underway. Around 600 families have been rehabilitated under the scheme,” said the spokesperson. The company has been allotted 3,400 acres for the steel project .

L & T consortium receives orders from Tata Steel for the later’s Kalinga Nagar plant

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Myiris and others report on this. Following is an excerpt.

Larsen & Toubro (L&T) announced on Monday that the company led consortium  bagged orders worth Rs 10.70 billion for supply & installation of Sinter plant and other packages from Tata Steel.

Tata Steel is setting up an integrated steel plant with capacity of 6 million tons per annum (MTPA) in Kalinganagar industrial complex at Duburi in Jajpur district of Orissa to be completed in two phases of 3 MTPA each. The orders are for the first phase of this greenfield project.

Sinter Plant

L&T in consortium with Outotec, Germany bagged EPC (engineering – procurement – construction) contract for 5.75 MTPA Sinter plant valued at Rs 8.36 billion. The company`s share of this order is Rs 6.23 billion. This would be the single largest Sinter plant to be built in India. This is scheduled for completion in 30 months.

Steel Melt Shop

L&T has also been awarded the contract for civil and structural steel works of steel melt shop valued at Rs 2.33 billion. This is scheduled for completion in 28 months.

Tatasteel, Dhamara port and Greenpeace

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Recently there were some reports on Greenpeace’s opposition to the Dhamara port. Following are some excerpts of a news report that talks about Tata Steel’s response.

India’s Tata Steel Ltd said it will go ahead with its 24.6 bln rupee joint venture with Larsen & Toubro to set up an all-weather port at Dhamra, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.

Tata Steel spokesperson Yogesh Joshi said the company had no intention of abandoning the project and said work will continue as usual. …

Dhamra port is crucial for India as traffic is projected to grow to 2 bln tonnes by the year 2016, and all the ports of the country put together are presently handling only 760 mln tonnes.

Sheltered between the mainland and the Kanika Sands Island on the eastern coast, Dhamra port will be the deepest all-weather port of its kind in India, with a draught of 18.5 metres. It will be able to accommodate super cape-size vessels of up to 180,000 dead weight tonnes.

Samaja: Kalinganagar is becoming the Steel capital of India

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The following article from Samaja lists the various steel plants in operation and under construction in the Kalinganagar area. They are: Nilachal Ispat Nigam Limited, Jindal, MESCO, VISA, JK Steel, Rohit, Dinabandhu and Maithan which have started production; and Tata Steel which is in preparation.

Latest HRD roundup from Orissawatch.org

Angul, Anugul- Talcher - Saranga- Nalconagar, Balangir, Bhubaneswar- Cuttack- Puri, Bhubaneswar-Berhampur, Bhubaneswar-Cuttack- Kalinganagar, Bhubaneswar-Dhenkanal- Anugul, Cuttack, DISTRICTS & BLOCKS, Engineering and MCA Colleges, HRD-n-EDUCATION (details at orissalinks.com), IT, K-12, Kalahandi, KBK Plus district cluster, Khordha, Koraput, Management institutions, Marquee Institutions: existing and upcoming, Medical, nursing and pharmacy colleges, Odisha and Center, Research institutions, Rourkela- Kansbahal, Rourkela-Jharsuguda, Sambaplur- Burla- Bargarh- Chipilima, Tatas Comments Off on Latest HRD roundup from Orissawatch.org

Following is a roundup on HRD related postings at orissawatch.org.

R & R by Tata Steel in Kalinganagar

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The following information regarding R & R offered by TATA steel at Kalinganagar is from a Tata Steel brochure that they give me. If there is any inaccuracy in it or if similar packages are not being offered by Tata Steel to others in Kalinganagar please let me know.

[Context: After I had written an open letter regarding how Tata Steel is exploiting Orissa and yet referring to it as marriage between Tata Steel and Orissa, they got in touch with me in December 2006 when I was visiting Bhubaneswar. Although I am still unhappy with Tatas overall (as they have not done much on the issues I mentioned in the open letter), I personally think the following is a decent package and I hope other steel and aluminum companies such as POSCO, Mittal etc. use this R & R as a starting point.]

The R & R parameters used by Tata Steel:

  1. Famiy definition: All major sons as on 1st January 2005 to be considered as separate famiy for R & R benefits.
  2. Plot in the Rehab colony: One homestead plot per expanded family. Each original family would get about 3 to 7 plots.
  3. House building assistance: Rs 1.5 lakhs per expanded family (as per the new definition). Each original family would get about Rs 4.5 to 10.5 lakhs
  4. Temporary accommodation: Rs 0.1 lakhs per expanded family. In addition, providing immediate shelter during construction of their houses at a cost of about Rs 10 crores.
  5. Transportation assistance: Free transportation of all househod materials, cattle etc.
  6. Employment: One nominated member from each expanded family. i.e., providing more than 1200 jobs for 679 original families. Cash-in-lieu (rs. 2 lakhs per family) for the older people upon their choice. Engagement provided during the construction itself.

An example scenario: Family of late Sukura Soren. Hamlet: San Chandia. Mouza: Chandia.

  1. Family Tree: Late Sukura Soren owned 2.79 acres of land including house site. He had three sons: Late Abhiram Soren, Madhu Soren (71) and Sinu Soren (60) . Abhiram Soren is survived by wife Tulasi Soren (56) and four sons Mansingh Soren (33), Mataram Soren (30), Manika Soren (25), Rajen Soren (43). Son of Rajen Soren is Ghana Soren (19).
  2. Number of expanded families = 8.
  3. Compenstation for two houses: Rs 0.74 lakhs
  4. Land Compensation: Rs 2.79 lakhs
  5. 8 numbers of 1/10th acre plot in the rehab colony worth – Rs 4.0 lakhs
  6. Total house building assistance – Rs 12.0 lakhs
  7. Temporary accommodation assistance – 0.80 lakhs
  8. Transport allowance – Rs 0.16 lakhs
  9. Maintenance allowance – Rs 1.92 lakhs
  10. Cash in lieu of employment for 3 persons – Rs 6.0 lakhs
  11. Total employment – 5
  12. Total Cash benefits – Rs 28.41 lakhs

Samaja Editorial page article : POSCO-TISCO-N-MITTAL – If not now, never

Arcelor Mittal, Balasore, Bhadrakh, Bhadrakh-Dhamara, Bhubaneswar- Cuttack- Puri, Bhubaneswar-Berhampur, Bhubaneswar-Paradip, Cuttack, INVESTMENTS and INVESTMENT PLANS, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Jajpur Rd- Vyasanagar- Duburi- Kalinganagar, Kendrapada, Keonjhar, Khordha, MINES and MINERALS, Ports and waterways, POSCO, Puri, Railways, Roads, highways and Bus stands, Steel, Tatas, TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION Comments Off on Samaja Editorial page article : POSCO-TISCO-N-MITTAL – If not now, never

Samaja has a beautiful editorial page article by Ramachandra Pattanayak. In it the the author explains that if we continue opposing Posco, Tisco and Mittal what will happen is that steel plants will be made in other states, our mines will be assigned by the central government to these steel plants in other states and we will lose out on many fronts including infrastructure development that comes with steel plants, ancillaries, etc. Similarly, he says it does not make sense that we are so vocal about IIT etc. and yet we oppose Vedanta University.

I agree with the author. The assignment of mines is not fully under state govt. control. We can not sit on requests and delay assigning mines. If we do that currently the central govt. has the right to assign the mines to others. Losing out on the mines, we lose out on the related infrastructure developments such as townships, railways, roads, and to some degree ports. We also lose out on the ancillaries. In this regard one may note cities with big steel plants such as Rourkela or Jamshedpur. They all have lots of ancillary units around that area. So even if the main steel plant does not employ as many people as in the past, there are more opportunities for ancillaries these days as the state is keen on going after auto factories, bicycle factories etc. These ancillaries will hire a lot of people. But, of course, we should not force people out of their land; they should be enticed with good compensation (R&R). On the other hand we need to be very careful and wary of some of the neighboring states who are trying to spread their ideology to our state and in the process trying to steal some of these upcoming developments in Orissa. In this regard it is amazing that politicians and MPs from a neighboring state are able to come to Orissa and say that their party opposes such and such project in Orissa. At the same time the party of these politicians support industry in their state so much that they or their allies have sent in cadres dressed up as policemen to kill and rape people opposed to industrialization in their state. What gull these politicians from the neighboring state have and how stupid we Oriyas are to invite them, give them a platform and listen to them.

Collection of old links on investments and investment plans

Anil Ambani group, Arcelor Mittal, Birlas, Central public sector, CIL, Indian majors, Industrial houses, INVESTMENTS and INVESTMENT PLANS, IOC, L & T, MCL, Mukesh Ambani group, NALCO, NTPC, POSCO, SAIL, Tatas, Vedanta Comments Off on Collection of old links on investments and investment plans

Following is somewhat of a dated collection on investments and investment plans in Orissa.