Gujarat can become India's petro-hub: ONGC

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat could become the hub of India's petroleum sector once the upcoming Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemical Investment Region 
(PCPIR) project is completed, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) chairman Radheshyam Sharma told Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday.

The Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) and ONGC are jointly implementing the project. 

According to state officials, Sharma discussed with Modi the possibilities of expanding the partnership to an underground coal gasification (UCG) project, based on Russian-German technology. 

In response, Modi outlined the opportunities in coal bed methane (CBM) development and research in North Gujarat, and possibilities in non-conventional energy, particularly wind and solar hybrid energy, solar energy, wind power energy and geo-thermal energy. 

The ONGC chief accepted the suggestions made by Modi on corporate social responsibility in the petroleum and energy sectors. The chief minister said there was a need to create a special cell to address the issues and grievances of farmers when land is required for setting up projects. 

Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority will undertake a project with ONGC to tackle the issues of oil and gas leak, pollution and crisis management. Sharma said the Mangrove Project would be implemented very soon at Bay of Cambay to protect coastal environment. 

Balaji Wafers a name to reckon with in Gujarat snacks market

Chataka Pataka Tangy Tomato Snacks happens to be all over Gujarat — present in almost every paan shop and organised retail outlet, but with no jumbo billboards screaming its delights. With simple ideas that may seem outlandish in this age of brazen marketing, Chataka creator Balaji Wafers Pvt Ltd has managed to fend off bigger players like Pepsico and Haldiram’s in the Rs 600-crore Gujarat market for over two decades since launch. 

“Balaji survives solely on word-of-mouth publicity,” Mahesh Manjawala, executive director, Triton Communications, adding that the group has few advertisements to its name. That publicity, say industry watchers and rivals, comes from the Gujarat-based snacks maker’s ability to localise flavours. “Balaji understands the palate of the consumer well,” says Mr Manjawala.

Indeed, Balaji products like Chataka Pataka, Ratlami Sev and Sing Bhujiya, among others, suit the tastes of a specific market. The company offers masala wafers to cater to the Gujarati palate, chaat masala for the Maharashtra market and a range of spicy snacks for Rajasthan.

Here, it scores over Haldiram’s, which too has flavours to cater to the North Indian palate, by a better understanding of the Gujarati consumer. Balaji’s pampers the Gujarati’s sweet tooth by keeping its khatta-meetha less spicy.

“Balaji’s product mix is just right,” says Mr Manjawala.

Those products get an extensive reach in Gujarat, courtesy 10 sole distributors and a 400-dealer network, complemented by a fleet of 150 trucks and 3,500 minivans.

According to industry watchers, tremendous dealer support is one of Balaji’s key strengths.

Balaji keeps its dealers happy and is flexible in dealings, says Shashin Shah, an Ahmedabad-based dealer. “Our salespeople always get easy money,” he says, adding that the group encourages dealers to arrange their own fleet, for which they are compensated. Not to forget a certain factor called pricing. Balaji’s namkeen and wafer packets come for as less as Rs 1 and Rs 5, respectively.

Balaji MD Chandu Virani says volumes help him offer such prices. The pricing plan drove PepsiCo’s Kurkure down the same path, he says, adding that his rivals had to offer similar schemes to retain consumers. This strategy of marrying price, flavour and distribution is estimated to have catapulted the group to a 90% share of the state’s wafers market and 70% of the namkeen market. After beating local brands like Samrat & Real, Balaji has since spread to Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, eyeing a bigger bite of the Rs 3,000-crore branded snacks market.

Rivals are understandably frustrated with Balaji’s success. But some months ago, Lays and Haldiram’s got a godsend opportunity to learn management practices from the group. Representatives from the two companies came calling at Balaji’s premises, taking in operations at the plants and potato fields where the company sources its raw materials. Lay’s went back a lot wiser. “We are impressed by the simplicity and efficiency of Balaji’s operations,” said a PepsiCo spokesman while Haldiram’s could not be reached for its comment.

PepsiCo has since been trying to convince Mr Virani for a sellout. 

The group is against the idea, focusing instead on an expansion overdrive. Plans are afoot to expand the snacks range and cater to the global markets. Balaji is also embracing innovations; an automatic food-tech potato processing machinery was installed recently at one of its plants.

Like most family-run businesses, Balaji too had humble beginnings —its delivery van sputtered to life on a loan of Rs 25,000 from a 1,000-metre plot in 1989-90.

Before that, Chandu Virani, born in a farmer’s family, moved to Rajkot from Dhundhoraji village in Jamnagar after acute drought in the mid-1970s snatched all means of livelihood. “While our attempts to do farm equipment business flopped miserably, robbing our family of savings, I also had to shelve plans to run a dairy retail outlet,” he recollects.

At 17, Mr Virani was meeting ends by working as a canteen boy & doorkeeper at Rajkot’s Astron Cinema for Rs 90 a month. Help came in the form of Mr Virani’s then employer, Govind Khunt, who outsourced the canteen business to him and his brother. From that ramshackle canteen, Balaji has grown to a group that boasts of three plants—two in Rajkot and one in Valsad—that churn out 30 lakh packets per day and a Rs 300-crore turnover in 2008-09. Mr Virani still refers to his former employer as “seth”, much to the latter’s embarrassment, who believes “Chandu has grown in stature and is now a seth himself”. Those days helped Mr Virani find a name for the grandiose business that was shaping up in his mind.

“In 1983-84, a small Hanuman temple was set up in the cinema hall’s canteen. That inspired me to name the then homemade potato wafers Balaji,” he says. Today, Balaji’s aura of invincibility, which allows it to even host rival representatives, is a hot topic in B-schools, discussed maybe over its own snacks. 

Bharat Forge prefers Gujarat over Bengal

Bharat Forge Ltd (BFL) has finally decided to shift its power equipment project to Gujarat, moving out from West Bengal, where it was 
facing hurdle in land acquisition, which was delaying the project.

When Gujarat CM Narendra Modi flies with Baba Kalyani, CMD, Bharat Forge Ltd (BFL), to Mundra Port and SEZ in Kutch district on Friday, one of India’s oldest automotive component companies would have initiated a metamorphosis for itself.

Modi, incidentally, is taking an uncharacteristic break from his annual ‘chintan shivir ’ in the Kutch desert to lay the foundation for the Rs 2,400 crore power equipment manufacturing facility by BFL and its French partner Alstom, a global leader in the sector. The unit will come up on 120 acres in the 6,700-acre SEZ.

Ironically, Modi’s counterpart in West Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, was almost ready to provide BFL land for its captive steel plant at Panagarh. But the process has now been delayed because land acquisition (in Burdwan district) has hit administrative hurdles. Modi took only two months in providing land and has already earmarked another 700 acres for other BFL projects.

With Alstom, BFL will introduce the most technologically advanced turbines and generators to support India’s move towards environmentally-friendly power generation. With a manufacturing capacity of 5,000 MW per annum, the venture will meet a quarter of the country’s foreseeable power equipment needs by 2012-13 .

The Rs 5,000-crore metalforming company is going through unprecedented change. From being India’s largest manufacturer and exporter of automotive component, it is now ambitiously moving into the fast moving capital goods business and gearing to become a predominantly non-automotive company in the next 24 months.

By 2014-15, more than 75 per cent of BFL’s revenues will come from non-automotive businesses, especially through initiatives in power, oil and gas, marine transport,railways and aerospace sectors.

“A doubledigit growth for the Indian economy requires a major expansion of the capital goods sector to effectively feed an industrial upsurge. We aim at contributing to the growth of the capital goods sector in India,” says Baba Kalyani, chairman, BFL. It has garnered its most expansive plans in power sector.

In another large venture in Gujarat (with French firm Areva), BFL is graduating to manufacture nuclear power plant components and equipment. A 14,000 tonne open-die press facility, the largest in this part of the world, will be established by 2012 representing a national capability, rolling out 550 tonne forging. A nuclear reactor needs 10-12 of such mammoth forging.

BFL, along with NTPC, is preparing to manufacture, large castings, high pressure piping, pumps and valves.

CMD Baba Kalyani is entering into power equipment biz and changing location due to land acquisition problem.

Nano draws biotech giant Alexandria to Gujarat

Alexandria Real Estate, the $5.2 billion US-based company which provides solutions to life science industry, has decided to set up a sprawling biotech research and development (R&D) and incubation facility next to the Tata Motors’ Nano project in Sanand. 

A senior official said, "Alexandria has applied for 25 acres of land and intends to spend up to Rs 500 crore for the project."

"The company’s presence will attract large number of investors in the biotech and health sector to Gujarat, especially in the vicinity of Nano. With Alexandria starting to implement its project, it is possible to develop a complete biotech park in the area," said a senior state government official.

Another proposal from Biocon, a fully integrated healthcare company that delivers innovative biopharmaceutical solutions, is pending clearance from the government. More, an Indian company has tied up with France’s Biolice in order to produce cent per cent degradable bioplastic and is looking for land near Ahmedabad.

Alexandria has global presence and puts up all the necessary equipment for R&D in biotech, including fermenters, centrifuges, autoclaves and costly NMR research equipment in its facility. Its clientele includes universities and independent not-for-profit institutions government agencies.

"After putting up the facility, it will go in for marketing its space. It will surely attract top biotech players," the official said, adding, "Alexandria has agreed to put up its facility on the condition of zero discharge of effluents This is particularly important, as the area near Nano does not have any effluent disposal pipelines." 

BRTS,Ahmedabad,Gujarat nominated for international transport award

The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has added one more feather in its cap. The BRTS has been nominated for the 2010 Sustainable Transport Award. The award would be presented in Washington DC on January 12.

Other competitors are Cali city of Columbia, Curitiba city of Brazil, Guadalajara city in Mexico and Johannesburg in South Africa. According to the award committee those cities have been selected which were transforming their streets and fighting climate change to create high quality public spaces.

The BRTS systems were chosen by a select group of independent institutions like ITDP, EMBARQ, gtz, ICLEI, UITP and UNDP.  Municipal Commissioner I P Gautam said that it was a proud moment for the city.

The award was instituted five years back. Seoul, Bogotá, Paris, London and New York have received this award during the last five years.

Dalai Lama to visit Gujarat & Bodh Gaya

Hundreds of Tibetans and well-wishers carrying incense, traditional scarves (khata) and bouquets lined the road in Dharamsala this morning as His Holiness the Dalai lama left for visits to Gujarat and Bodh Gaya.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will deliver a religious discourse along with Jain scholars at the Jain pilgrimage town of Palitana near Bhavnagar, in the Indian state of Gujarat on 3 January.
His Holiness will visit the temple town to attend a free camp for the disabled. J B Shah, the director of Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology, said Ratna Nidhi Charitable Trust will organise the camp where over 25,000 physically challenged people will be given calipers, Jaipur feet, tricycles, wheelchairs, hearing aids and cruthes free of cost. Mahendra Mehta, a trustee of Ratna Nidhi, said the ‘Mobility Camp’ was inaugurated by Chief Minister Narendra Modi at Palitana on 23 December. Mehta said His Holiness the Dalai Lama was very keen to see for himself how the camp is being managed with so many people.
His Holiness will be in Bodh Gaya to give a five-day teachings at Bodh Gaya from 5 to 9 January. His Holiness will preach Nagarjuna’s “In Praise of the Transcendental” (jigten ley depar toepa), Atisha’s “Lamp of the Path to Enlightenment” (jangchup lamdron), Longchen Rinpoche’s “Mind In Comfort and Ease” (semnyid nyelso) and Tsongkhapa’s “Short Version of the Stages of the Path To Enlightenment” (lamrim dhuedhon) from 5 to 8 January.
On the morning of 9 January His Holiness will confer a long life empowerment (tsewang), and a long life offering will be offered to His Holiness.

Gujartat university BA BCOM BSc Results 2009

To know more about the Gujarat University BA BCOM results click here.


F.Y.B.COM OCT 2009 results

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PASS                                    01993     01155     03148                                                           
ATKT                                    00376     00127     00503                                                           
FAIL                                    03720     01256     04976                                                           
RESERVED                                00017     00006     00023                                                           
WITHHELD                                00030     00013     00043                                                           
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W-HELDO127                               ---       ---       ---                                                            
ABSENT                                  00619     00163     00782                                                           
ADHOC O141                               ---       ---       ---                                                            
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TOTAL REGISTERED                        06755     02720     09475                                                           
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32     THE RESULT OF THE EXAMINATION IS  36.21%                                                                                     
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  03486 205  02504 204  06982 195  00018 192  06981 186  00167 186  00015 186  03476 170  08873 166  03607 165                      
  03606 163  03491 162  00195 160  00008 160  00220 158  00173 158  05726 157  05692 157  03612 157  00019 156                      
  03524 155  08703 153  03651 151  00007 151  06998 148  05696 148  03649 147  00103 146  03508 145  00212 144                      
  00169 143  06980 142  00190 142  08552 140  03471 140  08898 139  00155 139  00162 138  00086 138  00247 137                      
  00175 137  03677 135  02607 134  02503 134  00006 134  09223 133  02511 133  00034 132  05702 131  05689 131                      
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SECOND                                   ---      00002     00002                                                           
PASS                                    00833     00737     01570                                                           
ATKT                                    00009     00012     00021                                                           
FAIL                                    00894     00567     01461                                                           
RESERVED                                00021     00010     00031                                                           
WITHHELD                                00013     00003     00016                                                           
CANCELLED                               00005     00002     00007                                                           
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W-HELDO127                              00014     00010     00024                                                           
ABSENT                                  00366     00223     00589                                                           
ADHOC O141                               ---       ---       ---                                                            
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TOTAL REGISTERED                        02155     01568     03723                                                           

THE RESULT OF THE EXAMINATION IS  50.33%                                                                                     
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  00004 302  01327 299  00002 278  00003 249  01942 243  00635 205  00620 203  00254 197  00006 195  01145 194                      
  00857 189  02510 188  00598 180  00599 177  00781 175  00636 174  00609 170  02153 169  00243 169  00611 168                      
  03123 167  00259 164  02719 163  00842 163  02152 159  02074 157  00780 157  00608 157  00415 156  00276 152                      
  01698 151  00759 151  00286 149  00845 148  01130 147  00616 147  00601 147  00596 146  01238 145  00610 144                      
  02509 143  00615 143  00267 143  00427 141  00419 141  01699 140  01328 139  00607 137  00614 136  03577 135                      
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SECOND                                  00002     00003     00005                                                           
PASS                                    00149     00128     00277                                                           
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FAIL                                    00364     00311     00675                                                           
RESERVED                                00010     00004     00014                                                           
WITHHELD                                 ---      00001     00001                                                           
CANCELLED                               00002     00003     00005                                                           
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W-HELDO127                              00036     00007     00043                                                           
ABSENT                                  00222     00165     00387                                                           
ADHOC O141                               ---       ---       ---                                                            
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TOTAL REGISTERED                        00785     00623     01408                                                           

THE RESULT OF THE EXAMINATION IS  27.85%                                                                                     
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  00053 322  00010 273  01132 266  00047 264  00778 245  01129 242  00602 232  00003 232  01121 230  00426 228                      
  00436 226  01118 223  01394 221  01392 221  00439 219  00579 217  01112 215  01127 214  01123 214  01395 212                      
  00574 209  00601 203  00711 199  00591 199  00275 199  01110 198  00791 198  00756 198  00677 198  00573 196                      
  00373 196  00712 194  00596 191  00357 190  00062 189  01158 187  00710 186  00429 185  00015 184  01130 183                      
  00562 182  00020 182  00013 182  00946 181  00023 181  00719 180  00055 180  00440 179  00372 179  01275 178                      
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PASS                                    01225     01189     02414                                                           
ATKT                                    00100     00093     00193                                                           
FAIL                                    01579     01163     02742                                                           
RESERVED                                00035     00017     00052                                                           
WITHHELD                                 ---       ---       ---                                                            
CANCELLED                               00001     00001     00002                                                           
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W-HELDO127                               ---       ---       ---                                                            
ABSENT                                  00597     00286     00883                                                           
ADHOC O141                               ---       ---       ---                                                            
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TOTAL REGISTERED                        03537     02749     06286                                                           

THE RESULT OF THE EXAMINATION IS  44.69%                                                                                     
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  04047 275  00022 210  02981 201  00028 198  05169 191  04035 184  00021 179  05163 175  04375 175  05589 167                      
  05165 167  03998 167  00006 162  04379 161  00653 161  05170 159  04382 157  00023 157  04384 155  04036 155                      
  04374 154  03013 154  01089 151  05185 149  02668 149  06243 148  03752 146  02454 146  00849 146  03772 145                      
  01706 145  03022 144  05608 142  05597 142  01936 142  00846 142  00656 142  04871 141  03999 141  00848 141                      
  00416 141  03753 140  00419 140  04034 138  04012 138  02980 138  00017 138  02447 137  01957 137  00390 137                      
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SECOND                                   ---       ---       ---                                                            
PASS                                    00263     00092     00355                                                           
ATKT                                    00051     00016     00067                                                           
FAIL                                    00220     00058     00278                                                           
RESERVED                                 ---       ---       ---                                                            
WITHHELD                                00028     00003     00031                                                           
CANCELLED                                ---       ---       ---                                                            
WITHDRAWN                                ---       ---       ---                                                            
W-HELDO127                               ---       ---       ---                                                            
ABSENT                                  00031     00004     00035                                                           
ADHOC O141                               ---       ---       ---                                                            
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TOTAL REGISTERED                        00593     00173    00766                                                           

THE RESULT OF THE EXAMINATION IS = 48.56%                                                                                    
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  00022 397  00015 328  00038 313  00025 311  00013 274  00130 257  00075 257  00010 253  00133 250  00027 250                      
  00139 247  00040 243  00185 241  00080 240  00017 240  00006 234  00003 234  00005 230  00001 229  00259 228                      
  00170 219  00039 219  00220 218  00268 215  00102 215  00023 213  00011 210  00047 209  00163 208  00121 207                      
  00056 207  00120 206  00059 204  00244 203  00117 203  00064 203  00148 198  00129 195  00206 193  00108 193                      
  00202 192  00041 192  00239 191  00242 188  00128 188  00205 187  00197 187  00062 186  00232 184  00183 184                      
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SECOND                                  00002      ---      00002                                                           
PASS                                    00071     00040     00111                                                           
ATKT                                    00012      ---      00012                                                           
FAIL                                    00072     00013     00085                                                           
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W-HELDO127                               ---      00001     00001                                                           
ABSENT                                  00007     00003     00010                                                           
ADHOC O141                               ---       ---       ---                                                            
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TOTAL REGISTERED                        00164     00057    00221                                                           

THE RESULT OF THE EXAMINATION IS = 53.55%                                                                                    
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  00012 398  00023 388  00009 379  00043 372  00047 354  00005 347  00025 320  00033 313  00057 310  00003 306                      
  00041 301  00018 297  00048 295  00067 293  00011 290  00045 285  00044 254  00024 251  00061 249  00065 234                      
  00056 232  00035 229  00017 229  00016 229  00062 228  00013 226  00168 216  00040 214  00059 211  00028 210                      
  00014 204  00066 200  00052 196  00031 192  00203 190  00204 189  00213 188  00036 183  00034 183  00027 183                      
  00002 183  00021 181  00185 177  00037 177  00221 176  00060 176  00098 173  00186 172  00105 172  00063 171                      
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SECOND                                  00012     00010     00022                                                           
PASS                                    00035     00027     00062                                                           
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FAIL                                    00126     00064     00190                                                           
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WITHHELD                                00001      ---      00001                                                           
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W-HELDO127                              00003      ---      00003                                                           
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ADHOC O141                               ---       ---       ---                                                            
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THE RESULT OF THE EXAMINATION IS = 30.50%                                                                                    
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  00038 414  00069 364  00093 337  00004 329  00263 324  00090 318  00070 318  00057 317  00047 315  00158 308                      
  00008 308  00039 300  00053 299  00014 298  00071 296  00062 296  00268 295  00054 294  00241 292  00084 292                      
  00270 290  00063 290  00059 289  00058 285  00073 283  00046 283  00085 280  00102 279  00028 278  00251 277                      
  00213 275  00081 274  00217 273  00204 273  00240 270  00075 270  00065 270  00009 270  00026 269  00166 268                      
  00005 266  00253 265  00086 264  00174 263  00045 263  00206 262  00143 262  00029 262  00144 260  00083 259                      
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RIL discovers oil in Cambay basin,Gujarat

Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries today announced discovery of an oilfield 130 km from Ahmedabad in Gujarat, its second major find after the offshore MA field in the Krishna Godavari basin.

Reliance discovered oil in the fifth well it drilled on the 635-square kilometer CB-ONN-2003/1 block in the Cambay basin, a company statement said but did not give reserves the field may hold.

The block was awarded to Reliance in the fifth round of bidding under the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP). The company holds 100 per cent participating interest in the block.

Reliance had previously found crude oil reserves in the predominately gas-rich KG D-6 block off the east coast. The MA field, which came into production in September last year, is currently producing around 11,000 barrels per day.

The fifth well on the Cambay onland block, CB10A-A1 was drilled to a depth of 1451 meters. It encountered about 15 meter reservoir and the well flowed 500 barrels of oil per day during conventional testing.

"This discovery is expected to open future potential within the block," Reliance said, adding the discovery has been named 'Dhirubhai-43'.

"Commerciality of this discovery is being ascertained through more data gathering and analysis," the statement said. "3D Seismic data has been acquired over 80 per cent of the block area and 2D Seismic data has been acquired over the entire area."

"The discovery, named 'Dhirubhai-43' has been notified to Government and Directorate General of Hydrocarbons," the Reliance statement said.

The onland exploratory block CB-ONN-2003/1 covers an area of 635 sq km in two parts - Part A located in the west with an area of 570 square kilometres and Part B located to the east with an area of 65 square kilometres.

The discovery was made in Part A of the block, it said. A gross reservoir thickness of about 15 meters was encountered and the well flowed at a rate of 500 barrels of oil per day through a 6 mm bean with a flowing tubing head pressure of 360 psi on conventional testing.

"This discovery supplements Reliance's understanding of the petroleum system in this block in the Cambay basin. Based on interpretation of the acquired 3D seismic data, several prospects have been identified at different stratigraphic levels," the statement added.

courtesy; Business Standard

Gujarat Based Institutes signs MoU with Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC)-promoted Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Georgia Institute of Technology (GATECH), Atlanta, GA, USA for establishing Center for Excellence in Energy and faculty and student exchange programs.


While PDPU provides courses in energy education and conducts research with special focus on the oil and gas, solar and nuclear engineering fields, GATECH is research led technical university having $ 500 Mn research budget every year. With almost 1000 faculty involved in research, the institute conducts research in the areas of solar, nuclear, electricals and transportation. GATECH also has campuses in France, Singapore and Costarica

ONGC found traces of oil reserve in Gujarat

ONGC  found traces of oil reserve in Gujarat which could increase the company’s total onshore oil production by 20 per cent. The new hydrocarbon structure located at North Kadi in the Mehsana area is likely to produce at least 1 million metric tonnes per annum (mmtpa) of oil.


This could be the largest onshore oil find for the company in the last one decade. The company has 1,200 drilling wells in Mehsana. The new location will require 500 wells to be drilled and the estimated investment for this would be Rs 500 crore.

Narendra Modi inaugurated Jaiprakash Associates cement plant in Gujarat

JAL invested Rs 1500 crore in the cement plant having capacity of 2.4 MTPA; JAL’s first cement plant in Gujarat.

Highlights

• 100% Captive Thermal Power Generation - 22 MW-Ph-I
• Captive Water Desalination Plant - 2200 cu m per day-Ph-I
• All equipment sourced from leading suppliers across the world
• JAL is the 3rd largest cement group in India & is among the low cost producer of cement
• Combined commissioned capacity of over 17.1 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) as on date (including new plant)
• JAL’s expansion plans are to achieve a 35.55 MTPA capacity by FY-12 – one of the fastest organic expansions worldwide in the cement industry
• Once the expansion plans have been implemented, the Group will have 12 integrated cement plants, 12 grinding units and 12 captive power plants across the states of Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Chhatisgarh, Jharkhand, Assam and Andhra Pradesh.

The Honourable Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri. Narendra Modi today dedicated Jaiprakash Associates’ 2.4 million tonnes per annum capacity cement plant in Sewagram, Kutch, Gujarat in the presence of other dignitaries, to the nation.

Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL), the flagship company of the well diversified industrial conglomerate Jaypee Group having interests in the fields of Civil Engineering, Cement, Power, Real Estate & Hospitality, has made an investment of Rs 1500 crore in the first phase of Gujarat Cement project and commissioned 2.4 MTPA cement plant at Sewagram in Kutch, Gujarat. Greenfield plant was completed in a record time of 33 months after the acquisition of land in end of 2006. The project during the construction phase has generated employment opportunities in excess of 3000 people.

Commenting on the occasion, Shri Jaiprakash Gaur, founder of the Jaypee Group said, “Gujarat is a vibrant state with good growth impetus. It is poised to take a big leap forward with a philosophy to make development a mass movement. Jaypee Group synonymous to its tag-line – “No dream too big” is proud to be associated with Gujarat and to be a part of the development of the state in particular and economy in general. I am indeed delighted that our cement plant has been dedicated to the nation by Hon’ble CM of Gujarat, Shri Narendra Modiji. I am confident that with government and administration support, JAL will add to the development of the state by creating employment opportunities, infrastructure development etc. and thus overall socio economic growth of the region”.

Apart from having state-of-the-art technology, cement plant will also have an emergency backup of 35 MW DG power has a 100% captive thermal power generation plant that will generate 22 MW in the first phase and 50 MW in the second phase. In order to desalinate the saline water around the cement plant, a captive water desalination plant has been installed with a capacity of 2200 cu m per day in the first phase and 3800 cu m per day in the second phase.

“The demand for cement in western part of India has been growing and is expected to grow by 10-12% in next four-six months, with this new cement plant I am sure that we will able to garner good market in burgeoning western part of India. The CAGR of JAL’s cement division has been tremendous and it gives me immense pleasure to reiterate the fact that JAL would be achieving one of the highest organic growths in cement industry worldwide. In FY 08 we had total installed capacity of 9 MTPA and we are poised to take the same to 35.55 MTPA by FY12 with an aim to achieve combined cement capacity of 22.80 MTPA by the end of the current fiscal”, added Shri Gaur.

It has always been the vision and philosophy of the group to undertake all round development of all the project sites and develop infrastructure so as to provide the basic amenities to all the local people and JAL has developed 16 bed hospital, additionally providing a medical van with X-ray that covers 12 nearby villages including providing free medicines, till date almost 1.8 lakh cases have been treated since 2006. To provide educational facilities, under the aegis of Jaiprakash Sewa Sansthan, ‘Not-for-Profit’ trust of the Jaypee Group, a school has been established imparting education till class VII and the same shall be upgraded to 10+2, by 2011. On this occasion, the Hon’ble CM of Gujarat Shri Narendra Modi also laid the foundation stone of an ITI to be set up by the Jaypee Group to impart vocational training in five trades to a total strength of 240 students by 2011.

The cement plant has installed state-of-the-art technologies to ensure pollution free mining using surface miner. Being an environmental friendly group it has always been JAL’s endeavour to reduce pollution and for the same with use of latest technology the dust emission would be limited to less than 50mgm.

The Group has almost four decades old association with Gujarat and has been associated in many prestigious projects ranging from the importance of nation’s defense to the construction of India’s largest concrete dam. The group has constructed 17 km stretch of road in the Rann of Kutch between Bhabbar and Suigam, successfully completed work on Ukai dam including construction of 8 kms long left main canal, cross drainage works etc. Apart from this, the group has constructed 1450 MW Sardar Sarovar Dam, the largest water resource project in India and the third largest dam in the world in terms of quantity of chilled concrete to be placed. Jaypee group has also successfully completed Karjan Reservoir project, Vadgam Saddle Dam. In, January 2001, when earthquake struck Gujarat and did a lot of damage, the group adopted the village of Kakarwa and did the entire rehabilitation work.

GPCL, Torrent to set up 1000-Mw plant at Pipavav,Gujarat

Gujarat Power Corporation Ltd (GPCL), owned by the Gujarat government, today inked a shareholder agreement (SHA) with Torrent Power Ltd (TPL) to develop a 1000-Mw coal-based power plant at Pipavav in Amreli district of Saurashtra region.



The project, to be set up at an initial investment of Rs 4,500 crore, will have a capacity of 1,000 Mw in the first phase, which will be subsequently raised to 2,000 Mw.


The project will be implemented through a special purpose vehicle (SPL), Torrent Pipavav Generation Ltd (TPGL), and commissioned by March 2012.


According to GPCL officials, 267.38 hectare private land has been acquired for the project.
GPCL has also carried out soil testing and obtained clearances for withdrawal of sea water.
The official added that other clearances were in the process.
The MoU was signed between the state government and TPL in Vibrant Gujarat Investors Summit in 2007.

R-Infra gets Rs 1,000-cr contract from Gujarat govt

Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG)’s flagship company Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (R-Infra) has won a Rs 1,000-crore road project from the Gujarat government.

R-Infra quoted Rs 42-crore premium over the bids of rival companies such as GVK Power and Infrastructure Limited (GVKPIL), GMR Infrastructure, B Sennaih and C&C, JMC Srei and Sadhbhav.

The project is to execute a 71 kilometre four-six lane corridor connecting the ports of Mundra and Kandla in Gujarat. The project has to be completed by December 2012 on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer (toll) basis with a concession period of 25 years.

The bidding process for this project started in February and 20 bidders were qualified in the initial screening stage. The shortlisted six companies submitted their final bids on December 3. The bids were opened on Monday, said sources. An R-Infra spokesperson declined to comment. The company plans to increase its investments in road projects to over Rs 20,000 crore by 2012. R-Infra is also looking for opportunities in ultra mega road projects across India, Lalit Jalan, chief executive of R-Infra, had told Business Standard in a recent interview.

Neesa Agritech enters frozen food business

Ahmedabad,Gujarat -based Neesa Agritech P Ltd (NAPL), an agri-biotech company, has made a foray into the frozen foods segment with the brand name of 'Instant Indian'. NAPL has planned to launch all major categories of food, including curries, breads, rice, snacks and desserts. The products are slated for market introduction by the starting of January 2010

"We are targeting Indian market as well as overseas ethnic market in US, UK & Gulf to harness the new consumer trend and to make the category more relevant and exciting for consumers and channel partners", said Sanjay Gupta, group chairman.

Instant Indian range claims to be 100 per cent natural, meaning these foods contain only natural ingredients.

NAPL has decided to look for new ways to drive value in the frozen ready to eat food category.

"The company is looking forward to create a good value preposition for channel partners as well as trendy consumers. Products are slated for market introduction by the starting of 2010."

NAPL is the sister concern of Neesa Leisure Ltd (NLL) luxury hotels and resorts business with flagship brand name 'Cambay'.

All the best!!!!!!!

Courtesy : Business Standard

IBM bags IT contract from Gujarat bank

IBM today announced that it has signed a decade long IT services agreement with Sardar Bhiladwala Pardi People's Co-operative Bank Ltd. (SBPPCB), one of the leading co-operative banks in Gujarat. The engagement, a complete operational expenditure (pay-as-you-go) model, will enable the bank to save up to 50 per cent in its capital expenditure on IT infrastructure.

As part of the agreement, IBM will provide managed continuity services encompassing server management, network and security management, back up and database management, a company release stated.

Established in 1929, the Sardar Bhiladwala Pardi People's Co-operative Bank's main objective is to help improve the lives of farmers, small traders and artisans. The 80-year-old co-operative bank was on its way to implementing a Core Banking solution and signed up with IBM to manage its IT infrastructure requirements remotely from IBM’s Global Management Centre in Bangalore. The end-to-end managed services provided by IBM will reduce upfront capital expenditure for the bank allowing it to spend in an operational expenditure model over a 10-year period.

The agreement with Sardar Bhiladwala Pardi People’s Co-operative Bank closely follows IBM's success with other co-operative banks across the country including Madhav Nagrik Sahakari Co-operative Bank in Rajasthan and with the Kurmanchal Nagar Sahkari Bank Ltd. in Nainital in Uttarakhand.

Talking about the contract with IBM, Ajay C Shah, chairman of Sardar Bhiladwala Pardi People's Co-operative Bank Ltd. said, "We have seen IBM's track record in addressing unique requirements of banks like us in India. We believe IBM's technology expertise and focus on delivering cost-efficient solutions will help us achieve our growth strategy and higher levels of customer satisfaction." Hemant M Desai, managing director of Sardar Bhiladwala Pardi People’s Co-operative Bank Ltd. said, "This model will set a good example for other co-operative banks for evaluating the core banking system with predictable and low expenditure as well as obtaining a high level of technology expertise."

Neeraj Sharma, director - integrated technology services, IBM India/South Asia said, "This is a strategic win since it is aligned to IBM's geo-expansion initiative and our focus on helping financial services clients.

With businesses across the country sharpening their focus on cost-efficiency in these challenging times, IBM has once again proved its partnership value for small and mid-sized customers.

We are excited about this opportunity with Sardar Bhiladwala Pardi People’s Co-operative Bank to offer managed services that will help them reduce their upfront IT expenditure.

The fact that the bank decided to enter into a 10-year long agreement further reiterates the trust clients, big and small, have in IBM’s capabilities.

Gujarat's luxury car market in Formula 1 mode

Gujarat has steadily grown from being a conservative market for premium cars with 2 per cent share to one that now has a 6.5 per cent share of domestic premium car sales. The state accounted for nearly 15 per cent of national sales of luxury cars during the car buying spree in Dussehra in September.

"The Gujarat market has been traditionally conservative compared to more flamboyant spending behaviour in the National Capital Region(NCR) and Mumbai. But, that is changing now. From a mere 2 per cent share of net luxury car sales in India around a year and a half back, the state now has a 6.5 per cent share," said Sanjay Thakker, chairman of Landmark Honda and also promoter of the dealership chain that has Mercedes Benz and Volkswagen AG outlets. He added that while the luxury car market is estimated to grow from around 8500 cars and sports utility vehicles (SUVs) in 2009 to around 10,000 vehicles in 2010, Gujarat's share should rise from a current 6.5 per cent to around 8 per cent.

Luxury car dealers here felt that there should be a 50 per cent rise in sales in 2010. Dealerships are in an expansion mode: Planet Petal, the exclusive dealers of Nissan Motors India in Ahmedabad, are all set to come up with two more outlets in Rajkot and Baroda within the next few months after they inaugurated their first outlet in the city a couple of weeks back. Thakker's Automark Motors, dealers of Mercedes in Ahmedabad, are starting a new outlet in Surat in the next few weeks. Sukhbir Bagga, director of Group Planet Petal said that upbeat from the current trend,they are looking at sales of Nissan cars to touch 3000 units by the end of 2010. Nissan has been selling completely-built-units (CBUs), its sedan Teana priced above Rs 21 lakh and sports utility vehicle(SUV) X-Trail that is priced around Rs 25 lakh in India so far. It will launch yet another CBU model, Nissan's sports car, 370Z in January next year besides starting production on its global compact car Micra from May 2010.The Micra will be positioned in the B+ segment.

There was a spurt in general buying during Dussehra this year when the sales of sedans overall jumped from a 1000 cars per month in Gujarat to 1500 cars in September. Mercedes sold 60 units in Gujarat alone of its net all-India sales of 415 cars in September 2009. "Easy financing option is perhaps one of the reasons for the interest in luxury car buying in this relatively conservative market. While rates of interest have fallen, companies offer interest-free equal monthly installment (EMI) options periodically", Thakker said. Mercedes had offered on easy EMI offers on its E-class sedans before phasing it out and introducing its upgraded version.

Currently, Volkswagen has four dealerships in the state, at Ahmedabad, Baroda, Rajkot and Surat, Mercedes has one in Ahmedabad while another is coming up in Surat, BMW,Audi and Nissan have one showroom each in Ahmedabad.

During April to October this year 2603 units of luxury cars were sold across the country as against 2218 units a year back, up 17 per cent.

Courtesy: Business Standard.

Gujarat Based Essar Oil is set to emerge as India’s third largest oil refining company

Ruias-owned Essar Oil is set to emerge as India’s third largest oil refining company and one of the most complex refineries worldwide after it completes expansion of its Vadinar unit,Gujarat, according to an analyst report. Essar is raising the Vadinar refinery capacity to 16 million tonnes from 10.5 million tonnes by December 2010 and further to 34 million tonnes in Phase-II expansion to be completed by December 2011, making it the country’s third largest refining company after Reliance Industries and Indian Oil Corp (IOC). The report, issued yesterday by local brokerage HDFC Securities, said the expansions would help the firm earn about $3 more on processing of every barrel of crude oil. “While refinery expansions will result in $3 per barrel premium over Singapore complex GRM (gross refining margin or earnings on processing of per barrel of crude), strategic focus on product evacuation will help maintain high capacity utilization,” it said. After the expansion, Vadinar refinery in Gujarat would be able to process most of the dirty and difficult crudes that are sold at substantial discounts to premium crude like Bonny Light or Brent.  Its complexity index (a measure of the refinery’s capability of process difficult crude) will rise from existing 6.1 to 11.8 in 2011-12 and to 12.8 in 2012-13. “EBITDA margins will rise from 3.1 per cent in FY09 to above 10 per cent from FY13E,” the report said.

Renovated Kankaria lake dazzles in Gujarat, December 2010

                                         kankaria lake, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, kankaria carnival preperations

kankaria lake, toy train tunnel with beautiful light

past meets the current at Kankaria lake carnival

Atlantis Resources is assessing the viability of a 100-MW tidal power project in Gujarat.

British energy company Atlantis Resources has said it is assessing the viability of a 100-MW tidal power project in Gujarat.

 The company has particular interest in the Gulf of Kutch and the Gulf of Khambhat areas, according to the information available on the company website. 

Earlier in the day, the British daily ‘The Times’ also has reported that Atlantis has “forged a deal with Gujarat, under which the company will establish the feasibility of developing tidal power projects”.

Gujarat State govt ties up with HCL for computer-aided learning system

Information technology company HCL has bagged a Rs 110-crore contract with the state government for installation of bio-metric attendance and computer-aided learning systems in 7,000 schools across Gujarat. 

HCL will collaborate with Tribal and Education Department to facilitate capturing of online attendance data for both students and teachers in ashram and adrashnovasi shalas that function in tribal and backward regions, a company release said. 

Initially the project will be implemented in two tribal districts comprising 150 schools each, out of the eight notified here.

Under the scope, HCL will supply PCs with biometric finger print scanner and UPS to over 7000 schools across the state. The company would implement the biometric based attendance system, offer facility management and run teacher training programs to supply and implement robust education software effectively at schools

UN appoints Gujarat Council of Science City to promote International Year of Biodiversity

The Gujarat Council of Science City has been named as one of the organisations that will promote 2010 as the ‘International Year of Biodiversity’, an event launched by the United Nations.

The council, which successfully hosted the 17th National Children’s Science Congress (NCSC) in Ahmedabad, will popularise the event with affiliates of the world body such as UNESCO and UNDP.

“The United Nations has declared 2010 as year of biodiversity. It’s a celebration of life and biodiversity on earth,” Principal Secretary Ravi Saxena said. 

“The Gujarat Science City is emerging as a key platform for popularising science.” The congress, which concluded on Thursday, was organised at SGVP International School and Science City.

Interestingly, the participation of girl students in this event was more than boys. More than 550 science projects and innovations were presented by students. Of these, 289 were presented by girl students.

“Students from across the country participated in the 17th science congress. A total of 560 projects were evaluated. Of these, 25 have been selected,” Jaideep Barua, the chairman of academic council, said. “Participation of children from every Indian state shows that NSC has succeeded in popularising science.”

Again it can happen only in Gujarat: Charity movement !!!!!!!

Charity begins at home goes the adage. But this sexagenarian Amdavadi tweaked it a bit lying in a Civil Hospital bed five years ago. Moved by the plight of patients’ relatives from far-flung areas, he thought benevolence should begin from the health hub.

Meet 80-year-old Ghanshyam Patel, who delivers free food to the kin of patients from remote areas at Civil Hospital daily. He founded Gujarat Dardi Lok Kalyan Trust for the purpose in 1999 and started serving free lunch and dinner to 10 persons. Ten years on, the number of beneficiaries has swelled to 250 with support from different quarters.

Patel was admitted to Cancer Hospital in 1999. While undergoing treatment, he came across several poor patients from remote areas. He learnt that their relatives had to start for the hospital before dawn for attending to them because they could not afford to hire attendants. They hardly ate anything.

The poignant saga had a deep imprint in Patel’s mind and he decided to do something for the hapless kin of poor patients. Back home completely cured, he floated the idea of feeding them in front of other occupants of the complex he stayed in Naranpura, opposite to Ghatlodia police station. Each apartment owner agreed to donate a tiffin once a week.

After a couple of brainstorming sessions, Patel and his team founded Gujarat Dardi Lok Kalyan Trust. To start with, its members decided to deliver 10 tiffins each at lunch and dinner time.

Patel’s initiative became the talk of the town soon. Residents of nearby apartments and housing complexes also expressed their wish to chip in. Within three months, the number of beneficiaries surged to 25 in each half of the day. Patel had to appoint two cycle-wallahs for transporting the tiffins to the hospital.

A few months on, a young entrepreneur, son of one of the friends of Patel, made arrangements for 12-15 more tiffins. He also bought the trust a second-hand loading rickshaw for carrying the tiffins to Civil Hospital. A driver was appointed for steering it but the trust could not afford to give him salary. Patel sought help of his apartment’s residents once more. This time, its association decided to foot the bill of the driver.

The popularity of Patel’s free tiffin service soared with time and several more people joined his noble mission. With the number of contributors increasing, Patel started a monthly rotation system. Each contributor now delivers one tiffin a month. At present, free lunch and dinner reach 250 relatives of Civil Hospital patients daily in four loading rickshaws. Charity can tee-off from anywhere, ain’t it?

Courtesy: Ahmedabad Mirror

Ghanshyam Patel

Tiffin service provider He founded the Gujarat Dardi Lok Kalyan Trust in 1999 to deliver free food to the kin of patients at Civil Hospital. From 10 persons his clientele has expanded to 250 with the help of the local population...... People of Gujarat are great!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gujarat University won four prizes at the Silver Jubilee Inter University Youth Festival

Students of Gujarat University have bagged four prizes at the Silver Jubilee Inter University Youth Festival that  concluded recently. They won prizes for the best cultural procession on Save the Environment theme, skit, western vocal solo and one-act play. All the winners will participate in the National Youth Festival at Rohtak University, Haryana, in the first week of February