Essar Reducing SEZ Size to One-Fifth

In a setback news for Jamnagar industries, Essar Oil Ltd, a $50 billion Essar Group company is asking for Centre's approval to reduce the size of its Jamnagar special economic zone (SEZ) to around 200 hectare (less than one-fifth) from 1,125 hectare.

Also the company also wants to reclassify the proposed project as petrochemical SEZ Only. Reason being that the company has been facing problem in land acquisition and finance.

Although the company officials neither approved nor denied the matter, they do reconfirmed that capacity of their exiting 10.5 MTPA refinery will be expanded to around 34-35 MTPA.

Officials said ditto for the 1,200 mw captive power plant (under construction at Vadinar)

Essar's next Jamnagar venture, 1,200 mw imported coal-based power plant at Salaya had cleared all documentation hurdles, this project is under MOU with Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd for supply of 1,000 mw on long-term basis, this plant's construction and maint. is executed by a Chinese company.

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Mukesh Ambani's RPL Refinery - More News

Mukesh Ambani lead Reliance Petroleum (RPL) has commissioned the world's sixth-largest refinery in record time of just 36 months.

Why is this project execution so special, we should note that around 15 such projects were being executed at the time when the Global recession hit the Business world, most of such projects were in China, US and Gulf.

Among this projects are global names like CNOOC (China), CONOCO Phillips (US), Marathon Oil (UK) and KNPC, Saudi Aramaco, Qatar Petroleum from Gulf, RPL is the only company to have completed its project in record time.

An official statement by RIL states that "By commissioning the 5,80,000 bpd refinery in Jamnagar, Reliance Industries has become the world's single-largest supplier of fuels to the global market"

Mukesh Ambani, RPL chairman added that "A decade ago, Jamnagar Refinery helped break India's dependence on imported fuels when RPL commissioned RIL's refinery in Jamnagar."

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Good News For Reliance Petroleum Limited

Good News For Reliance Petroleum Limited, and its a joy for Reliance Industries as well ,

RPL Officials confirmed that the Export Oriented Unit status of Jamnagar refinery is extended by one year till 2010.

It must be noted that under the EOU status, the company is "not required to pay import duty on crude oil".

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Sahara City - 50 Crore Fine Imposed

Sahara Prime City Limited (SPCL), a subsidiary of the Sahara Group is under the Jamnagar district administration Scanner.

City administration has issued a notice to Sahara to pay a stamp duty penalty of Rs 48.69 crore.

Chandrakant Pandya, Jamnagar Dty Stamp Duty Collector confirmed this news, however Sahara has denied the allegation.

Sahara is building their ambitious Sahara City project at Dhuvav village, 8 km from Jamnagar city.

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RPL Refinery to start in September

Reliance Petroleum Ltd (RPL) is marching on, Mukesh Ambani-promoted Reliance Industries Ltd's Petroleum arm will start its refinery production at Jamnagar from this September.

This is almost four months ahead of schedule, with the new plant, RPL Jamnagar will be the sixth largest refinery in the world.

RPL Jamnagar's officers newsroom announced that work was more than 82% completed.

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Pramod Kumar Jha is no more.

Pramod Kumar Jha is no more.

Pramod Kumar Jha was on life support systems in the ICU at Ahmadabad's Sterling Hospital, he was suffering from liver cirrhosis.

Jha hailed from 1986 IPS batch.

Jha's career was at its peak as superintendent of police of Jamnagar district in the early 90s.

Under the Chimanbhai government, Jha had sought to raid Rama Nakha Gadhvi, Rama was then a close associate of the chief minister and an arms dealer.

Jha confided with home minister CD Patel and CD instructed Jha to go ahead with the raids.

This was a moment of attention for Jamnagar Police in 1993, when home minister camped in Jamnagar and under his permission Jha raided Gadhvi's home and found arms worth Rs 1 crore.

Jha was the first officer who get tipped off about the consignment of RDX and weapons sent by Dawood Ibrahim to carry out the Mumbai serial blasts in 1993, to land off the Gosabara shore in Porbander in January that year.

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IAF - AWACS Reaching Jamnagar

First of the three Indian Air Force (IAF) Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) will finally arrive in Jamnagar on May 25.

AWACS will be fitted on IL-767 frame and will reach Jamnagar on Monday, May 25th. This will be maiden flight of AWACS from Israel, where it was built.

The AWACS, known as an eye in the sky, has a radar that could help in detecting even cruise missiles or aircraft at ranges much beyond the capabilties of present systems, it also collacts information about troop movements and missile launches on ground and even intercept highly secured communication networks of the enemy.

AWACS operation headquarter is from Agra.
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HPCL Refinery : RIL Jamnagar's New Challenge

Around 50 senior engineers recently left Reliance Industries (RIL) Jamnagar to join HPCL Mittal Energy Ltd's upcoming 9MMT Guru Gobind Singh Refinery at Bathinda in Punjab.


Considering recent refining growth in India, RIL and ESSAR refineries around Jamnagar were the only option left for poaching. most of the new refineries are built on UOP technology which serves as common ground for most of the engineers to venture in different companies.

A HR Analyst also said that this trend is just started and may be increasing over the time.

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Catholic Syrian Bank Starting Jamnagar Branch

Kerala based Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB) is looking at closing this financial year with a business of Rs 9,000 crore.
 
Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB) is on a expansion spree, it has plans to open 50 branches over the next two years.
By April, A branch will come up at Jamnagar as well.

Note that Jamnagar is only non-south Indian district where the bank will be opening its branch as a part of the expansion project.

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Cairn India - Jamnagar Pipeline Project Started

Cairn India is not missing the "Benefit Jamnagar" agenda.

Cairn India will begin laying a USD 800 million pipeline to evacuate crude oil from its Rajasthan fields, Cairn India has hired Larsen & Toubro for this contract, L & T will complete the job in 6 to 9 months.

These heated pipeline for transporting crude oil from the Rajasthan fields will begin at Mangala terminal (Rajasthan) to Salaya oil export terminal near Jamnagar in Gujarat.

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Protest Against Dirty Drinking Water

Jamnagar Municipal Corporation opposition is agitating against dirty drinking water provided by JMC. On Tuesday some of the opposition members raised this issue and JMC Officials and ruling members could not give any satisfactory answers.

It should be noted that since last 1 month city residents are provided with dirty and muddy water, many resident groups have tried to draw attention of JMC towards the issue by sending the dirty drinking water filled bottles, however like other issues Municipal Corporation officials and Members are not deterred by these cries.

There are some basic problems with Filtration plant in Jamnagar, as Alum ( filtering chemicals) is out of stock since months, Municipal Corporation is borrowing alum from Indian De fence Establishments. In addition to this, Municipal corporation uses special type of "Fish" to remove algae from reservoir, however as the water turbidity is very high, fish can not be used. Adding insult to injury, many drinking water pipelines are damaged and requires maintenance across the city.

Jamnagar residents can only hope that this situation will improve before the rainy season.

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Ravindra Jadeja made Jamnagar Proud

Vice Captain of India's Under-19 is Ravindra Jadeja, a Jamnagari has made Jamnagar proud in International Cricket yet again.

Jamnagari Jadeja's Cricket Legecay lives on, Ravindra Jadeja is latest feather in cap, after legendary names like Ajay jadeda, Jam Ranji, Dulip Sinh.

Ravindra achieved heights without any godfather in cricket, his father is a security guard and one sister is a nurse.



Since childhood Ravindra had made Cricket Bungalow (Jamnagar) as his workplace, his career graph went up and up from Under - 14, 15,1 , Ranji Trophy, West Zone and then in the Under-19.

This left arm spinner not only has a quickie in his hand but accuracy as well, he is an ace fielder and a brilliant All-rounder as well.

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Japanese Water Melon on Farmer's Cultivation List

Jamnagar farmers have always been innovative and had tried various crop and fruit variety.

Jamnagar farmers are set to add exotic fruit in their list, farmers are leavin their traditional wheat and cotton crops and are cultivating "exotic Japanese watermelon", rates of these Japanese watermelon are at whooping Rs 15,000 a tonne.

The crop can fetch three times return than the traditional watermelon variety.

Jitu Patel, an Agro technical adviser had successfully bought Taiwanese papaya, American maize and banana farming in Jamnagar and nearby regions. Jitu explained that these japanese watermelon has a higher sugar content. These water melon has high demand in North Indian States.


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IAF Jamnagar Officers Social Networking Act

Social Networking sites are proving hazardous to Indian defense System,

Recently IAF Jamnagar's pilot was questioned when he uploaded some of private pictures while posing with MIG Airplanes in front of IAF MIG Airbase.

IAF Jamnagar officials have asked the military intelligence to perform a background check on the said officer.

An MEA official quotted this as a serious concern, and updated that if things are not corrected this could be a major Security Concern for India.

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Sachana - Boom from Recession

Worldwide economic slow down has actually become a savior for Gujarat's Alang ship breaking industry. There is a new ship everyday ready to get broken, few years back there were only 4-5 ships a month.

Jamnagar's Sachana has something to cheer about as well. Alang ship breaking yard is over loaded due to incoming traffic, many small ships have preferred to go to Sachana ship breaking yard which is located in north Saurashtra, 28 km from Jamnagar.

Sachana yard is smaller than Alang. It has 15 plots. At Sachana yard, ship stands inside the sea, away from ship breaking plot. After breaking some parts inside the sea, ships are pulled towards the plots.

Sachana ship breaking yard had total six plots.
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Saat-Nari Escape case to LCB

The case of four prisoner's fled from the Jamnagar District Prison is moved to LCB (Local Crime Branch) Jamnagar.

Crime Branch police inspector, who is leading the investigation said that investigation has been started.

Four criminals of the Sat Nari Gang had escaped from the Jamnagar district prison after breaking the handles of the main door of their barrack on late Saturday night.

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RIL - new pharma unit in Jamnagar

Reliance Life Sciences (RLS) plans to create a pharma unit in Jamnagar

The aim is to set up a facility for Active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) and formulations manufacturing complex at Jamnagar, to benefit from tax brackets the complex will be constructed in the multi-product special economic zone (SEZ) established by Reliance Industries (RIL).
 
Area of investments will be medical, plant and industrial biotechnology, bio-pharmaceutical products especially blood pharma proteins, bio-generic recombinant proteins, humanized monoclonal antibodies and si-RNA molecules will be main products of the facility.
 
bio-pharmaceutical products such as albumin, fibrin sealants and immunoglobulin, anti-hemophiliac factor, virus inactivated plasma will be marketed under Reliance brand.
 
RIL is planning to have one unit each for Contract Research Organization (CRO) and Reliance Clinical Research Services (RCRS).

With this new units RIL will have its upper hand in Clinical Research as well.

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Catholic Syrian Bank Starting Jamnagar Branch

Kerala based Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB) is looking at closing this financial year with a business of Rs 9,000 crore.
 
Catholic Syrian Bank (CSB) is on a expansion spree, it has plans to open 50 branches over the next two years.
By April, A branch will come up at Jamnagar as well.

Note that Jamnagar is only non-south Indian district where the bank will be opening its branch as a part of the expansion project.

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Mukesh Ambani - Big Jamnagar Party

Mukesh Ambani is Hosting India's biggest Corporate Cocktail Party.

On Friday Jamnagar will host this party at RPL's Main Consortum Hall.

All the who's who of India Inc and Bollywood will land on the refinery town for a three-day corporate carnival.

It is believed that Mukesh Ambani has hosted this party as he is world's fifth richest man, and Richest Indian in the world.

The Young Presidents' Organisation conference's trump card, former US vice-president and Nobel laureate Al Gore  will be present on the occassion.

Guest list also includes the following.

• Sachin Tendulkar.
• Ratan Tata.
• Sunil Bharti Mittal.
• K V Kamath.
• Kumarmangalam Birla.
• Adi Godrej.
• Anand Mahindra.
• Gautam Singhania.
• Azim Premji.
• L N Mittal.
• Prashant and Anshuman Ruia.
• Shivinder and Malvinder Singh.
• Nandan Nilekani.
• Shah Rukh Khan.
• Kareena Kapoor.
• Katrina Kaif.
• Juhi Chawla.

RIL's 6 jets will be busy transfering these VIP from Mumbai to Jamnagar and Back.

Two additional Airbus aircraft have also been charteredfor the guest service.


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Air Chief Marshal - Jamnagar Visit

On Friday, The Chief of Indian Air Force - Air Chief Marshal FH Major arrived at Jamnagar Air Force Station.

Air chief is vising Jamnagar for the first time,  and is being accompanied by wife Zareen Major.

On his two-day tour he will visit Squadrons, and will address Air force staff.

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