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D Umamaheswara Rao (AP Irrigation Minister) has said that the Polavaram Irrigation project
conferring benefits to East Godavari, West Godavari, Visakhapatnam and Krishna districts is expected to be completed by 2018. Rao also said that all works on
the right bank canal will be finished by June-2017. The state government is
taking all required steps to complete the Polavaram project by 2018. He said water which was
over-flowing into the sea after usage of water for two crops in East Godavari
district will be diverted to Krishna delta through Pattiseema project. He said that Chief Minister has directed officials to spend INR 300 Crores towards land
acquisition for various projects.
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ACME has got new tenders for
developing 200 MW solar power projects in separate bids conducted by Solar
Energy Corporation of India and NTPC in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, according
to a source. ACME got largest share of 150 MW out of 400 MW at fixed tariff of
INR 4.43 per unit in addition to viability gap fund of INR 55 lakh per MW. The
tender was floated by Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) under
Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission Phase-II Batch-III. ACME also won a 50
MW project at the NTPC tender floated in Telangana. NPTC under Jawaharlal Nehru
National Solar Mission called bids for developing 350 MW under open category.
Power from this project will cost INR 4.67 per unit for 25 years.
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Odisha's State Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA) accorded in-principle approval to two investment proposals worth INR 470 crore. The SLSWCA meeting chaired by Chief Secretary A P Padhi approved a proposal of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) to set up a common user facility (CUF) for storage of petroleum products at Meramunduli in Dhenkanal district at an investment of INR 270 crore, said Kalyan Mohanty, General Manager of Industrial Promotion and Investment Corporation of Odisha (IPICOL). It also approved a proposal of Starlight Energy Limited to set up an integrated grain based distillery unit along with a parboiled rice mill and co-generation biomass power plant at Goud Sariguda in Kalahandi district with a total investment of INR 137 crore. The CUF project is a common arrangement of IOC L, BPCL and HPCL and will cater to receipt and storage of petroleum products like petrol, diesel, kerosene, fuel oil, light diesel and high performance petrol, he said. Mohanty added that the project will require 90 acres of land, 3 KL/day water and 450 KW of power and provide direct and contractual employment to around 344 people. Starlight Energy's project requires 195 acres and 1 MW power as stand by for start-up of the biomass power plant. It will use broken rice from rice mills, besides maize and other grains produced in Odisha for the distillery unit, while husk from the rice mills will be used as principal raw material for production of biomass power. It will produce neutral alcohol for medicine, ethanol for blending in petrol and anhydrous alcohol for industrial use and provide direct and contractual employment to 108 people, Mohanty added.
