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New Waste management contract to Ramky group: 16 Dec 2011
Come January 1, 2012, parts of Chennai City will have a new waste management project, to make its environs that much cleaner.
Ramky Enviro Engineers Ltd. will handle 1,500 tonnes of waste per day. It will procure and deploy a fleet of 1,500 tricycles, 3,000 compactor bins, 3 mechanical sweeping machines and 70 new compactors as well as adequate dumper vehicles to do the job.
The Hyderabad-based company has bagged a contract worth Rs 560 crore from the Corporation of Chennai. The project involves collection, segregation and transportation of the waste. It will be implemented in three new zones (9, 10 and 13) of the Corporation.
The project will be implemented through a special purpose vehicle and the gross revenue is expected to be around Rs. 80 crore per annum amounting to Rs. 560 crore over the duration of the contract.
The project was bagged by Ramky Enviro, part of the Rs 6000 crore Ramky Group, against stiff International competition and multinational companies in the tender process.
The work of collection and transportation will start in a phased manner in the New Year and aims to achieve a clean and hygienic environment in the 3 zones of Corporation of Chennai, a company release said.
Ramky Enviro has been implement waste management projects, especially municipal solid waste, hazardous materials, recyling in different parts of the country as well as abroad. The Company has 26 subsidiaries and 85 facilities in nearly 50 locations across India, South East Asia, Vietnam, Middle East and Africa.
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02 December, 2011, 13:13 IST by Vikas Yogi
The Japan based leading car maker Nissan Motors is planning to export its portfolio cars to the markets like Middle East from its facilities in the Indian market. The news came after company’s production was completely halted at its Thailand based plant, from where the company exports a considerable number of cars to the overseas markets. The recent devastating floods in the Thai market left the production at Nissan’s plant in the country completely disrupted.
While speaking to the reporters on the side lines of Tokyo Motor show on Thursday, Nissan Motor Co Chief Operating Officer Toshiyuki Shiga said, “We are studying to utilize capacities in India to export to other countries like the Middle East. There is a possibility of that. He added, "Besides, our capacity in Thailand is full. Now there is no room to export from Thailand." |
In India, Nissan has a joint manufacturing facility with its global partner French car maker Renault in Chennai. The massive Chennai based facility of Nissan-Renault has a total manufacturing capacity of 4 lakh cars per annum. Both partners have committed an investment of 4,500 crore for setting-up this plant in Chennai.
In the words of Mr. Shiga, "We have a big plant in Chennai... We are exporting a lot. With small car Micra, we will expand to more countries like the Middle East."
The leading Japanese car makers like Nissan Motors are shifting their focus to the rapidly growing markets like India, as the Japanese market is gradually losing its competitiveness with sales volumes continuously going down.
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8 sep 2011
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Thirumazhisai New Satellite Township
Making a statement under Rule 110 in the State Assembly, she announced new housing development schemes aimed at benefitting all sections of the people in view of the rapid expansion of the Chennai city and the skyrocketting real estate prices.
As part of the new housing schemes, the Tamil Nadu Housing Board would build the Satellite Township in a 311.05 acre land at Thirumazhisai on the Chennai-Bangalore National highway integrating Chembarambakkam, Kuthambakkam, Parvatharajapuram, Narasingapuram and Vellavedu villages.
She said 12.87 acres of land would be acquired from the owners after due consultations for developing link roads to the Thirumazhisai Satellite Township, which would have all basic facilities like drinking water, drainage, rain water harvesting, street lights, community hall, schools, hospital, bus stand, park and playground.
Ms Jayalalithaa said 12,000 apartments would be built in the township and would be sold to economically weaker sections and middle income group people at affordable rates.
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3 Sep 2011 |
Bosch investing Rs. 500 crore in Tamil Nadu.
One of the world's largest home appliances manufacturers , Bosch, along with the Siemens Group, have proposed to invest nearly Rs 500 crore to set up a manufacturing facility near Chennai. This factory will be a formidable addition to the list of appliance brands that have chosen the city to set up large manufacturing units.
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Samsung has invested over $100 million in their factory in Sriperumbudur .
Panasonic too has a factory in Sholavaram and Chennai is also home to original equipment manufacturers such as Foxconn and Flextronics. Bosch, through its subsidiary BSH Household Appliances Manufacturing, will invest Rs 479.27 crore to set up a manufacturing facility at Sipcot Industrial Park in Pillaipakkam , near Sriperumbudur.
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02 Sep 2011. |
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Southern Districts Industrial Corridor (TNSDIC) linking seven districts and Coimbatore-Salem Industrial Corridor is set to be rolled out soon.
The consultant for the project, Mahindra Consulting Engineers, submitted a final draft to the State government earlier this month.
The TNSDIC project, which will cover more than 475 km approximately, will require infrastructure development worth `40,105 crore and would generate industrial investment worth `1.90 lakh crore. It will also create 18 lakh jobs, B Suresh, president and chief executive officer of Mahindra Consulting Engineers, told Express on Tuesday.
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The TNSIDC project would cover Madurai, Virudhunagar, Sivaganga, Tirunelveli, Ramanathapuram, Thoothukudi and Kanyakumari districts. It will have three manufacturing and business investment regions (MBIR) in Madurai, Thoothukudi and Tirunelveli besides a Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR) in Ramanathapuram, according to the report accessed by Express.
The project would also have two knowledge hubs in Tirunelveli and Madurai besides three special tourism investment zones, including Madurai, Sivaganga and Kanyakumari. It would also have agri-business investment regions in Virudhunagar and Thoothukudi.
The project sphere of influence will be on National Highway 45 (103 km) from Madurai to Thoothukudi, National Highway 7 (327 km) from Madurai to Kanyakumari and National Highway 7 (47 km) from Tirunelveli to Thoothukudi. The corridor will also have manufacturing and business industrial areas.
Suresh said these corridors won’t run into the existing cities and will not create any ecological problem. “Farmlands will not be affected and the project will not create any ecological problem,” he added.
Suresh said that the Coimbatore-Salem Industrial Corridor, also known as CTENS, will cover Coimbatore, Erode, Tirupur, Namakkal and Salem.
The total investment on infrastructure expected in this project is Rs 14,711 crore while it would generate an industrial investment of Rs 43,188 crore, the report added.
The cost on infrastructure is less as the existing infrastructure has to be upgraded and modernized.
The corridor will figure in 150 km and consists of an MBIR each in Salem and Coimbatore� besides agri-business investment regions in Namakkal and Erode.
It would also have knowledge hubs in Coimbatore and Salem besides special tourism investment zone in Erode.
The corridor would provide jobs to 11 lakh people, Suresh added.
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29 June 2011
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Chennai 29 June 2011. PSA Peugeot Citroen, the French automobile manufacturer, is likely to set up a Rs 4,000-crore manufacturing facility close to Chennai.
The company is to establish a manufacturing unit with the capacity to produce three lakh cars annually to cater to the domestic and export markets. The Indian company will be a 100 per cent subsidiary of the French parent company, which is the sixth largest automobile company in the world and the second largest European automobile major. It has selected a site near Sriperumbudur, about 45 km to the west of Chennai. According to sources in the know, the company, which has been exploring options to set up a manufacturing base in Andhra Pradesh also, has zeroed in on a location at ‘Vallam Vadagal' area close to Sriperumbudur. The company hopes to set up a 400-acre facility but the actual extent of land to be allocated is yet to be announced. Including the project by PSA Peugeot, annual production in the vicinity of Chennai is set to grow to more than 1.5 million units a year. This includes the capacity of Hyundai Motor and Ford India. |
Nelson Manickam Road Flyover.
15 feb 2011
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Anna Nagar Arch to Nelsonmanickam road Flyover:
The flyover will consist of two independent L-shape structures having two-lanes each. One structure will begin on Poonamallee High Road near Anna Arch and end on Nelson Manickam Road to enable vehicles moving towards Nelson Manickam Road from Anna Nagar III Avenue and from Koyambedu. The second structure will begin along Poonamallee High Road near Nelson Manickam Road and end in front of Government Siddha Hospital on Anna Nagar III Avenue,'' highways department sources told TOI.
The project also includes a vehicular subway at Anna Arch for vehicles moving from Anna Nagar III Avenue and moving towards Koyambedu.
Erode-based Periyasamy and Chinnasamy group will build the new facility. "While Rs 68 crore will be spent on construction works, the remaining Rs 49 crore has been allotted for land acquisition,'' the sources added.
As vehicle population and traffic congestion on the stretch from Anna Arch to Aminjikarai has increased enormously, traffic police have already restricted right turn for vehicles moving from Nelson Manickam Road to Poonamallee High Road. But the restriction has only resulted in increase in congestion at the Anna Arch signal. Presently, about 1.30 lakh vehicles move on Poonamallee High Road every day.
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29 dec 2010
Chennai Bangalore Highway
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Road travel time between Chennai and Bangalore will reduce significantly in the next couple of years even as the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is widening the entire stretch as a six lane.
It has already awarded two contracts in this stretch and now plans to award the third one.
Public-private model
NHAI will widen the present ‘carriageway' (double lane) stretch between Poonamallee and Walajapet under the public-private partnership.
The widening of the 93-km road will cost nearly Rs 930 crore, according to the NHAI.
The authority has issued a tender calling private operators to bid for the project on a build, operate and transfer (BOT) basis.
The Poonamalle-Walajapet stretch forms the main and preferred road connectivity between Chennai and Bangalore (distance of around 350 km) and catering to both commercial and passenger movement between the two cities.
While it takes more than five hours between Chennai and Bangalore, crossing Poonamallee is the toughest being very congested due to the presence of various commercial establishments on the either side of the road. |
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19 nov 2010
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Austrian loader crane manufacturer Palfinger has set up an assembling facility near Chennai. The company said the facility would cater to domestic and overseas markets including China.
Speaking to reporters after signing a dealership network agreement for South India with T V Sundaram Iyengar & Sons Ltd here today, Subhamoy Ghosh, managing director, Palfinger India Pvtd Ltd, a 100 per cent subsidary of Palfinger, said that the facility would assemble 200 cranes every year and would cater to both domestic and overseas markets.
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The company plans to export to countries like China, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia and other countries in the Far East. “We are also looking at countries in Africa and the Middle East,” he said.
The company has invested Rs 8 crore in the facility, he said. Palfinger is one of the leading international manufacturers of hydraulic lifting, loading and handling systems. The company has manufacturing units and assembly sites in Europe, North and South America as well in Asia.
Ghosh said T V Sundaram Iyengar & Sons would commence operations immediately and will offer entire range of Palfinger truck-mounted cranes starting from 0.4 meter-ton to 116 meter-tonne in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karanatka and Kerala markets. |
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6 Oct 2010 
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Chennai, Oct 6 (PTI) Rieter Automotive Systems, 100 per cent subsidiary of Switzerland-based Rieter Group and Nihon Tokushu Toryo (Nittoku), today inaugurated their new plant Rieter Nittoku Automotive Sound Proof Products India at Oragadam near here with an investment of USD 15 million.
"The opening is the latest step in the company''s ongoing strategy of expanding in Asia to meet demand in the region''s booming markets," a company statement here said.
The facility would currently have 140 jobs at the facilities, which the company would increase to significant numbers over the next few years, it said.
The city plant is the fourth facility for Rieter Nittoku joint venture in Asia, and it would supply products based on the latest technology from Europe and Japan, it said.
Rieter Automotive Systems opened its first India plant in 2006, manufactures felt, NVH (Noise Vibration Harshness) and damping parts.
The facility is spread over 11 acres (45,000 m2) produces molded carpets, acoustic dashboard solutions, engine compartment parts and aluminum heatshields.
The next expansion phase would be in 2011, which would also increase the number of automotive jobs in the facility.
Initially the facility would serve some of its clients including Renault Nissan Automotive India and Toyota Motor India car manufacturing facility, it said. |
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1 Oct 2010
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CHENNAI: Chinese telecom equipment maker plans to set up a USD 500 million manufacturing facility near Chennai, the state government has said.
Huawei gave an assurance in this regard to a delegation of Tamil Nadu officials, led by Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin, visiting China.
An official release here said Huawei officials met the delegation on Wednesday and "after this meeting, Huawei confirmed that it proposes to invest about USD 500 million for establishing a state-of-the-art telecom equipment manufacturing facility near Chennai".
The delegation assured the Chinese firm of the support and cooperation of the state government, the release added.
During the visit, Stalin also launched the first piece of equipment manufactured in the Chinese facility of Coimbatore-based Lakshmi Machine Works at its Chinese subsidiary, LMW (Suzhou) Ltd China, in the Wujian Economic Development Zone near Shanghai, the release said. |
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1 sep 2010
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Chennai Port's new hub. Rs 100 Cr for land acquisition.
The shipping ministry has allocated Rs 100 crore to the Chennai Port Trust to procure about 125 acres of land from Tamil Nadu government on a long-term lease. This is to set up a dry port and multi-modal logistics hub near Sriperumbudur special economic zone. The port trust intends to procure land from the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (Sipcot). The state government will make available the land at Mapeddu on lease for 99 years to the port trust. The port will be developed on a build-operate and transfer basis. The private operator will build and operate the facility for a 30-year licence period. The dry port will have an inland container depot/offdock container freight station, container yard, rail and road connectivity to national rail and road network, trade centre, warehouses for containerised cargoes like leather garments, textiles, automotive components and electronic hardware. The hub will also have an onsite customs clearance facility. |
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31 Aug 2010
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Chennai outer ring road work stared
Tamil Nadu deputy chief minister M K Stalin on Sunday laid the foundation for the first phase of the 62.3-km outer ring road project, covering Vandalur to Minjur. The estimated project cost, including Phase II, is around Rs 1,082 crore.
Speaking at the function, Stalin said the width of the ring road would be 122m and the first phase would stretch from Vandalur to Nemmilichery, a distance of 30km. The government is already in the process of acquiring land for the second phase, which would run from Nemmilichery to Minjur.
Stalin also inaugurated several works of the highways, municipal administration and public works departments, including the inauguration of a bridge over Buckingham canal, a flyover at Porur Salai, the Pattabiram-Tiruninravur bridge in Tiruvallur district and the high-level bridge over Cooum river connecting Mogappair and Nerkundram. Additionally, he attended the ribbon cutting for the new municipality at Avadi and the new out-patient ward at government hospital on Poonamalee High road.
Stalin said the government had widened 10,720 km of highways in the past four years, while only 3,059 km of highways were widened during the previous regime. |
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14 aug 2010
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TAX PAYERS MONEY WASTED due to delay:
Eleven years after the government decided to replace all railway level crossings between Chennai Beach and Tambaram with a subway or a bridge, a road overbridge that would replace the existing railway level crossing (LC No: 29) near Tambaram Sanatorium will be inaugurated by state highways minister Vellakoil Saminathan, on Sunday.
Workers of the city projects wing of the state highways department were busy giving final touches including levelling a few patches on the pedestrian pathway along the bridge on Saturday. One of the long-awaited and much-delayed project in the southern suburbs, the Rs 16-crore bridge is part of the gauge conversion between Tambaram and Chennai Beach. "After many hurdles, we were able to complete the project. The project costs was equally shared by the state highways and Southern Railway," a state highways official told TOI.
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4 aug 2010
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IOC will construct Rs. 8,000 Crore LNG terminal.
The MoU was signed by IndianOil Chairman B M Bansal and Tamil Nadu Industries Principal Secretary Rajeev Ranjan in the presence of Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, a company statement here said.
The MoU encompasses setting up of a 2.5 million tonnes per annum LNG terminal at a cost of Rs 3,000 crore, it said, adding the capacity (of the terminal) can be increased to five million tonnes.
The complex at Ennore would include a 1000MW LNG-based Power Plant that would cost around Rs 5,000 crore.
Under the MoU, IndianOil and TIDCO would jointly set up the LNG import and re-gasification terminal, including marine facilities, LNG based Power Plants, Gas Grid in Tamil Nadu in addition to participating in gas distribution business.
The Ennore Gas Terminal was expected to be commissioned by 2014-15, it said. |
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4 aug 2010
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JK tyre invest Rs. 1500 cr in Sriperumbudure 4Aug2010
Tyre major JK Tyre on Wednesday announced an investment of Rs 1,500 crore to set up a state-of-the-art greenfield radial tyre manufacturing unit near here which would produce 56 lakh tyres annually. The plant to be set up in the industrial hub of Sriperumbudur would start production by the end of 2011 in first phase. Full supply of radial tyres from the new plant would start in 2012. The plant would employ 1,000 high-end skilled labourers and Tamil Nadu was chosen for the company's expansion in view of it emerging as an auto hub and the firm's existing presence in Karnataka, Singhania said. The company, he said, had invested Rs 500 crore on expansion activities in the last few years, adding it would soon come out with ''India's first'' 3.5 tonne 57 inch ultra-large size tyre to be used in Off The Road (OTR) earth-moving equipment. |
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3 aug 2010
Kovai Title Park
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கோவையில் அவினாசி ரோட்டில் அரசு மருத்துவக் கல்லூரி அருகே ரூ. 380 கோடி செலவில் டைடல் பார்க் (தகவல் தொழில் நுட்ப பூங்கா) அமைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. சென்னைக்கு அடுத்த படியாக மிகப் பிரமாண்ட முறையில் 9.5 ஏக்கர் பரப்பளவில் இந்த டைடல் பூங்கா அமைந்துள்ளது.
இந்த டைடல் பார்க் கட்டிடத்திற்கு மேற்கு பகுதியில் 9.5 ஏக்கர் பரப்பளவில் விப்ரோ மென்பொருள் நிறுவனத்தின் கட்டுமான பணிகள் நடைபெற்று வருகிறது. கிழக்கு பகுதியில் 4 ஏக்கர் பரப்பளவில் எச்.சி.எல். நிறுவனம் அமைய உள்ளது. இது தவிர 12.9 ஏக்கர் பரப்பளவில் மென் பொருள் நிறுவன அலுவலகங்களுக்கான குடியிருப்பு கட்டப்பட உள்ளது. இந்த தகவல் தொழில் நுட்ப பூங்கா மூலம் 12 ஆயிரம் பேருக்கு வேலை வாய்ப்பு கிடைக்கும். |
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2 Aug 2010
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Apollo would be investing rs 300 crore in its Green field Chennai plant in 2010, in order to ramp up the production and make this plant as the most efficient, modern and productive tyre plant across Asia
At the Chennai plant, Apollo's total investment this year will be Rs. 2300 crore and so far only Diploma engineers had been employed as the IT driven machinery needs technical knowledge and advanced skills. By the end of 2010, according to the Chairman of Apollo, the Chennai plant will produce 16,000 passenger car and 6000 truck-bus radial tyres every day |
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09 June 2010
Chennai Metro Project
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State-run BHEL and France’s Alstom have joined hands to jointly bid for the Rs 14,000 crore Chennai Metro Rail Project.
“We have signed an in-principle agreement with Alstom for the Chennai metro project,” BHEL Chairman and Managing Director B.P. Rao told reporters here. He, however, said that equity participation by both the firms is yet to be finalised. “The agreement has been signed between us, but the equity portion is yet to be decided,” Mr. Rao said.
The Chennai Metro Rail Project, which got Cabinet approval in January 2009, will cover a total length of over 45 km, connecting Washermanpet and Chennai Airport and Chennai Fort and St Thomas Mount, with both corridors partially running underground.
Chennai Metro Rail Corporation Limited, a special purpose vehicle owned jointly by the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government on a 50:50 basis, is executing the project. |
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10th May 2010  |
NEW PALAR BRIDGE INAUGURATION TODA
The long pending Palar bridge will now inaugurated by Durai Murugan Minister for Law, Courts and Prisons on Friday. It will be held under the presidentship of the Minister for Highways and Minor Ports Vellakovil Swaminathan at Virudhambut on the northern side of the bridge at 5 p.m. The bridge has been constructed by the National Highways and the State Highways Department, across the Palar in Vellore, at a cost of Rs.16.01 crore.
S.Jagathrakshakan, Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting, would be the chief guest at the function.
The inauguration is being eagerly awaited by road-users of Vellore and Katpadi – the two places that the bridge connects – in view of the narrowness of the existing 35-year-old PolurSubramanian Bridge. Moving of traffic at a snail`s pace was not uncommon on the existing bridge whenever a vehicle got repaired in the middle of the structure or when a bullock cart passed through the bridge.
The new bridge has been constructed in place of the Old Palar Bridge, which crumbled about 17 years ago. With the inauguration of the new bridge, traffic on the Polur SubramanianBridge as well as the New Palar Bridge (formerly known as Old Katpadi Road) would be made one-way. |
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28th April 2010  |
Adyar Bridge:
A three-lane bridge next to to the Thiru Vi Ka Bridge across the Adyar river should be ready in a year's time, according to officials of the Highways Department.
Work on the new bridge is expected to start by June; bids have been received from contractors for the Rs.13-crore project and are under consideration.
The new bridge, which will be 300 metres long and 11 metres wide, will be higher than the existing bridge, and it will come up in the space between Thiru Vi Ka bridge and an old bridge that is not in use anymore.
On completion, it should ease traffic congestion on the stretch, which is now choked with vehicles during rush hour. |
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Chennai, May 7  |
Ennore Bridge:
The much-awaited construction of a bridge across Ennore Creek to connect North Chennai Thermal Power Station Road with Ennore Expressway will soon be taken up at a cost of Rs 20 crore.
“It will make the approach to NCTPS and Ennore port much easier,” said a senior highway official.
“At present, one has to travel at least 14 km via Ennore Manali Expressway and Tiruvottiyur Ponneri Panchetty (TPP) Road.” The proposed bridge will come up across the Buckingham Canal and Kosasthalayar River.
Though the bridge project was proposed much earlier, the finalisation of alignment got delayed because of the notification of the Inland Waterway Authority.
“The alignment was finalised after joint inspection by various agencies including the public works department only in February 2010,” the official added.
Sources said that the tenders would be invited after the bridge design is given formal approval.
Trucks carrying containers from Chennai port will be able to use this bridge to reach freight stations located in TPP road. |
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29 Jan 2010
Mehta Nagar |
Contracts for building three bridges in chennai approvd.
a) The cooum at the end of officer's colony 1st st in Mehta Nagar in Ward 73, with 3.37 crore..
b) The bridge across Otteri Nullah connecting Narasimha Nagar and M.S.Nagar would be 21.68-m long, have a 10.9-m wide carriageway and have footpaths of .55 m on both sides.
c) he bridge on Pari Street across Virugambakkam Canal in the Kilpauk zone would be constructed at a cost of Rs.1.43 crore. The length of the facility would be 43 m and the breadth 18.40 m |
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