Equipment arrival begins for Tata's Gopalpur Industrial Park

Source: The Sambad

The first consignment of equipment for Tata Steel's Ferro Chrome Plant at the Gopalpur Industrial Park has arrived. The equipment that has arrived include heat exchanger, bag filters, receiving hoppers, damper, diffuser and pneumatic headers (for Furnace gas cleaning plant). Besides, the Company has already placed orders for other equipment like main furnace, furnace electrode, Furnace Transformer and Briquetting plant . As anchor investor at the Gopalpur Industrial Park, Tata Steel initially will set up a 55,000 tonnes per annum (TPA) capacity Ferro Chrome Plant and 400,000 TPA Steel Rebar Mill at an estimated cumulative investment of Rs 1,000 crore. Both the units will generate employment for about 1,000 people. Work on the project is slated to begin soon. The Union Ministry of Environment & Forests has accorded environmental clearance for the said initial anchor investments by Tata Steel.A desalination plant is also proposed to be set up. The plant will treat sea water such that it can be used to meet the requirements of industries that will come up at the Gopalpur Industrial Park. The Gopalpur Industrial Park, will primarily attract investments from steel and allied downstream industries, engineering, chemicals products, among other sectors. The cumulative investment envisaged at Gopalpur Industrial Park has been envisaged at Rs 10,000 – 15,000 crore. The Gopalpur Industrial Park will also create employment opportunities for around 10,000 people. It will also facilitate industrial development of the region.

Source: OrissaDiary

Tata Steel reserves berth at Gopalpur Port near Berhampur

• Jindal Company also visited Gopalpur port to get a reserve berth
• Tata Steel would construct a hospital at Tata rehabilitation colony at Sitalapalli, Berhampur

At a time when the demand for returning the lands acquired for industries in Ganjam district is growing shriller, The Tata Steel Managing Director’s visit to Ganjam district seems to have settled things for now.

Tata Steel MD HM Nerurkar along with vice-president for Orissa Projects of the Company Hrideyshwar Jha visited Ganjam district on Tuesday to take stock of the progress of the proposed projects. They had an informal meeting with Ganjam District Collector Kishen Kumar and Managing Director of Gopalpur Ports Limited (GPL) Mahimanandan Mishra.

Gopalpur Industrial Park project is planned on 3,300 acres of land taken over by the company in 1995 for its now shelved mega steel plant project near Gopalpur port.

Tata Steel, being the anchor investor, has announced a ferrochrome industry with a capacity of around 55,000 tonne a year besides four million tonne capacity rubber industry and a desalination plant. The three units are scheduled to go for production from 2013.

However, as no progress was made even after seven months of the foundation, the displaced families whose lands were acquired started agitation demanding return of their lands.

According to the discussion between Tata Steel, GPL and district administration, Tata Steel would have its own berth and a jetty at Gopalpur Port at Rs. 60 crore for transportation of its proposed production.

However, till the construction of the berth, the port would provide a rebate of around 50 per cent to Tata Steel for transportation.

Tata Steel would construct a hospital in the vacant land at the Tata rehabilitation colony at Sitalapalli for the convenience of port and Tata employees and the GPL authorities would establish a school in the port’s vicinity, in order to reduce dependence on Berhampur.

Meanwhile, a team of officials of Jindal Company also visited the Gopalpur port to get a reserve berth.

Source: IBN Live