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starters, five departments, each headed by a domain expert,
have been created to monitor projects and manage the SPVs.
While Milind Kelkar (55), a former chief engineer with the
Maharashtra state water supply department, is heading the
water supply division, M.R. Ambhore (55), a former executive
with MSEB, is at the helm of the power generation
department. Adhir Sarkar, who had worked with leading
private sector construction companies, is in charge of the
construction department. In addition to this, independent
divisions to manage transportation and port development have
been rolled out. For each project, Reliance will provide the
land leaving the development to prospective investors, who
form part of the SPVs.
As reported by HT earlier, Mukesh’s close friend Anand Jain
is spearheading the Mumbai SEZ projects (Navi Mumbai SEZ and
Mumbai SEZ), involving an investment of more than Rs 25,000
crore.
The city, modelled on the lines of Jebel Ali in Dubai and
Shenzen in China, will house close to a million people. It
will have residential apartments, shopping complex and an
airport. And it will be linked to Mumbai city by a sea
bridge. There are around 5,000 SEZs worldwide with most of
them managed by governments. Reliance’s project is the
first-of-its kind from private sector.
In less than a week, Hong Kong-based Ju rong Corporation
will hand over the draft blueprint for the SEZ projects to
Reliance.
Over the last week, Jurong team has been collating details
from where the “model city” is coming up. “Jurong executives
came to do final survey of the place. The draft plan will be
ready soon,” said a source familiar with the matter.
Service industries such as electronics, contract research,
and finance will form the mainstay of the city. The project
will be completed in 2016 and development will be done in
clusters. The land acquisition for the first cluster has
been completed.
Since Reliance is promising to provide 25 lakh jobs, the
company has started training local peo ple. Vocational
training is now being pro vided to the youth in local
technical train ing institutes. Non-governmental agencies
have has also been roped in to conduct per sonality training
caps for local youths.
Reliance has formed a consortium with CIDCO and Nikhil
Gandhi-owned Skill In frastructure Pvt Ltd for developing
Navi Mumbai special economic zone (4,000 hectares). Reliance
will single-hand edly develop 10,000 hectares under the Mum
bai special economic zone (formerly Maha Mumbai SEZ.) MONEY
25K cr Total investment planned for Navi Mumbai SEZ and
Mumbai SEZ LAND 14K ha. Total area to be developed 4,000 ha.
for Navi Mumbai SEZ 10,000 ha. for Mumbai SEZ (formerly Maha
Mumbai SEZ) MANPOWER 25 lakh Jobs Reliance promises to
provide DEADLINE 2016 The project will be completed in 2016
and development will be done in clusters. The land
acquisition for the first cluster has been completed. |
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