NTPC Unit-II of 500 MW of “Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project” Operational from Nov 5, 2011

NTPC Unit-II of 500 MW of “Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project” Operational from, Nov 5, 2011

NTPC Limited engaged in the generation and sale of bulk power to state power utilities, has commissioned Unit-II of 500 MW of Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project (3 x 500 = 1500 MW) at Jhajjar of Aravali power company private limited, or APCPL, a JV of NTPC Limited on Nov 5, 2011. Electricity generated will shared by Haryana & Delhi equally.
(Unit-III of 500 MW is pending)

CLP India’s Jhajjar plant operational, “Mahatma Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project (MGSTPP)”

CLP India’s Jhajjar plant operational
“Mahatma Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project (MGSTPP)”
Jan 12, 2012

Mumbai: The only multinational company operating in India’s power generation space, CLP Power India Pvt. Ltd.--a subsidiary of Hong Kong-based CLP Holdings Ltd​.--announced on Thursday that the first unit of its 1,320 MW power plant at Jhajjar in Haryana had begun operations

The second unit of the Jhhajar (660x2MW) plant will become operational by the middle of this year (July 2012), CLP said in a release. The company had won the project through international competitive bidding in 2008, and 90% of the power generated from the project will be sold to power distribution utilities owned by the Haryana government, the statement added.
CLP India’s managing director Rajiv Mishra told Mint: “Our plan for the next five years is to grow our portfolio from a little over 2,600MW today to around 10,000MW.” He said this growth would be powered by both conventional as well as renewable sources
“In addition to these, we have land to triple the capacity of our 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant in Jhajjar but it is too early to comment on the specifics of this potential,” CLP said

Improvement by Widening and Strengthening of NH 10 in Bahadurgarh

Improvement by Widening and Strengthening of NH 10 in Bahadurgarh

Financial / Price-Bid was opened on Nov 14, 2011 for “Improvement by Widening and Strengthening of NH-10 from Km. 31.200 (Start of Northern Bypass, Sector 9) to 39.900 (End of Northern Bypass, Near Village Jakhoda) in Bahadurgarh town” Total length of road to be converted to two ways 8.7 Kms.

Contract includes installation of 180 Electric Light poles.

Widening (Two ways road) will be completed in 18 months i.e. by June 2013 at Estimated Value of Rs 3169.44 lacs.

Bahadurgarh to come closer to Faridabad

Bahadurgarh to come closer to Faridabad
Friday, 16 December 2011 00:43

In a major bonanza to commuters from NCR cities, the Urban Development Ministry on Thursday signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Haryana Government for the extension of Central Secretariat to Badarpur Line to YMCA Chowk in Faridabad. The high-profile meeting was presided over by the Minister of Urban Development, Kamal Nath with Chief Minister, Haryana, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, and officials from Haryana Government and Delhi Metro rail corporation (DMRC). The 13.8-km-long elevated stretch to Faridabad will have nine stations — Sarai, NHPC Chowk, Mewala Maharajpur, Sector 27A, Badkal Mor, Old Faridabad, Ajronda, Faridabad New Town and YMCA Chowk.

The corridor will be the extension of the current Violet line to Faridabad and will run on the standard gauge. According to sources, the approval for the corridor was already at a mature state, with almost all agencies having given its approval. Meanwhile, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (HUDA) has already taken a decision to hand over land to DMRC for setting up of nine Metro stations between Badarpur and YMCA Chowk in Faridabad.

The same meet approved the alignment of the11 km Mundka to Bahadurgarh Metro line with six stations. The move is likely to benefit thousands of daily commuters in the NCR, especially between Haryana and the rural Delhi. With the approval, the number of stations on the Green Line will reach nine. The MoU was signed a day after the Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) passed the Detailed Project report (DPR) of the corridor and sent it to the State Transport Authority (STA) for its nod.

The approved six stations include Mundka Industrial Area (MIA), Ghevra, Tikri Border, Delhi Mundka Industrial Estate (MIE), Bus Stand and City Park in Haryana. The new corridor is the extension of the current operational Green Line to Bahadurgarh. The extension is clubbed under the Metro phase III construction and is expected to be completed by the year 2016. A Delhi Metro Rail corporation (DMRC) spokesperson said, “Deviating from the trend of corridors in phase III construction, which will be mostly underground, the extension of the Green Line (Kirti Nagar to Mundka) will be entirely elevated. It will give a boost to the thousands of commuters from the Delhi Border and Bahadurgarh to the city.”

Sources in the Delhi Government informed that the projected cost of the Green Line Corridor is pegged at Rs 1,900 crore, of which 80 percent will be funded by the Haryana Government and the rest 20 percent by the Central Government. The calculation comes to Rs 180 crore from the kitty of the central Government and the remaining Rs 720 crore falling in the Haryana Government’s kitty. The development comes two months after DMRC submitted the updated DPR to the MoUD and the Haryana Government in the last week of October.”

Work on the lines is expected to be undertaken by 2012 as a part of the Delhi Metro’s phase III construction. The spokesperson added, “We have placed an order for additional rolling stock for the line. The Delhi Metro phase III project will have more than 1,800 coaches by the year 2016. Projecting the needs, additional 60 coaches will be required for the Faridabad Line and 32 more coaches will be required for the Green Line ext.

NCR water supply channel for Gurgaon complete (29 months late)

NCR water supply channel for Gurgaon complete (29 months late)

Chandigarh, Dec 11 2011 (PTI) The National Capital Region water supply channel for augmenting drinking water supply to Gurgaon has been completed and test runs on the channel has been conducted successfully on Dec 2011. Other industrial townships like Manesar, Bahadurgarh, Sampla and Badli will also get benefit from the water channel, an official spokesman today said.

Haryana govt to regularize illegal colonies

Haryana govt to regularize illegal colonies

The Haryana government will start the process of regularizing unauthorized colonies in the state from January 1 next year. “The process of regularizing unauthorized colonies would start from January 1 and it would be completed by February 15, 2011” Haryana Urban Local Bodies Minister Gopal Kanda told a press conference here.
He said the colonies with 50 per cent of constructed houses were being considered for regularization. In the first phase, regularization of almost 400 colonies of Faridabad, Gurgaon, Ambala, Rohtak, Yamunanagar and Bahadurgarh would be completed.
Kanda said the department has received about 3,000 applications and it was considering about 1,200 of them.
In the first phase, regularization of almost 400 colonies of Faridabad, Gurgaon, Ambala, Rohtak, Yamunanagar and Bahadurgarh would be completed.

New Metro lines connecting more NCR areas

New Metro lines connecting more NCR areas

Nov 8, 2011,
NEW DELHI: The NCR concept just got a shot in the arm. In a bid to connect the various parts of Delhi with the neighboring areas of Bahadurgarh, Noida, Gurgaon as well as Faridabad, the Delhi Metro will be going further inside these NCR areas in the third phase of its network. While the detailed project reports (DPR) for the extensions to Gurgaon, Faridabad and Bahadurgarh is ready and have been sent to the ministry of urban development for approval, the alignment for extension to Noida's sector 62 is still under finalization. Work on all the connecting extensions to the NCR areas is expected to be undertaken by 2012, to be part of the Delhi Metro's phase III construction.

With these alignments, the Delhi Metro will be blurring the state lines further and underlining the NCR concept, say officials. Said a spokesperson from the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, "The empowered group of ministers (EGoM) has directed that the lines (connecting the NCR) may be considered for inclusion in Delhi Metro Phase III and a separate proposal be brought for consideration of the EGoM. We are in the process of finalizing all the alignments at present." The alignments include the extension of the existing Mundka corridor (Mundka-Inderlok) to Bahadurgarh, crossing the Tikri Border via Ghevra. The other line extension is that of the Yamuna Bank corridor to Noida's sector 62 via sector 32. This corridor at present is till Noida City Center. Another line extension - of the new Mukundpur-Yamuna Vihar corridor of Phase III on to Shiv Vihar, an expansion by 3km, will also bring the outskirts of Delhi into closer contact with the central parts.

That's not all. As reported by TOI earlier, the extension of the Dwarka sector 21-Noida City Center line to IFFCO Chowk via Palam Vihar along with the extension of the Badarpur corridor to YMCA Chowk in Faridabad is also on the cards. This is besides the new corridor from Dwarka to Najafgarh, stretching over 13.875km, which has been sent to the ministry of urban development already for approval. Sources in Delhi Metro said that these alignments had been also clubbed with the three new extensions - Bahadurgarh, Noida sector 62 and Shiv Vihar, as a separate proposal for EGoM approval. "The proposal is for inclusion in the Delhi Metro Phase III, which means that work will need to be started by 2012. The DPRs of all these alignments have been put on fast-track," said the Delhi Metro official.

The alignments are in varying stages of planning and finalization, say officials. While the DPR for the Mundka-Bahadurgarh corridor was submitted to the MoUD and the Haryana government in the last week of October, the DPR for the Dwarka-Najafgarh and the Dwarka-IFFCO Chowk (Gurgaon) corridors are ready and have been sent for approval to the government for approval. The Faridabad extension has already gotten the green signal from the EGoM. However, the surveys for alignment finalization for both the Yamuna Vihar-Shiv Vihar as well as the Noida sector 62 lines are still underway. While the report on the former alignment is expected to be submitted by November 15, the DPR for the latter is still to be finished.