Japanese electronics
giant Sony Corp hitched
itself on to the Make in
India bandwagon
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Green nod to the UltraTech, for the
expansion of Maharashtra plant
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ditya Birla Group flagship UltraTech
Cement has got clearance by the
Environment Ministry to expand capacity at its Awarpur plant in Maharashtra.
The company has proposed to raise
production of clinker, a raw material for
cement manufacture, to 4.5 million
tonnes per annum from the existing
3.30 million tonnes, and increase cement output to six million tonnes from
4.48 million tonnes.
The company has been asked to
comply with specific conditions such as
developing green belt over 33 per cent
of the total project area, installing air
monitoring devices to monitor air emission, continuous stack monitoring of
facilities to monitor gaseous emissions,
among others.
The company has also been asked
to earmark at least five per cent of the
total cost of the project towards enterprise social commitment and prepare a
detailed CSR plan for every five years
for the existing-cum-expansion project.
The expansion will be carried out
within the existing plant area of 307.35
hectare. The additional power required
for the proposed expansion will be 5.1
MW. The company has 12 integrated
cement manufacturing plants in India
and is the single largest cement maker
in the country with an annual capacity
of 63 million tonnes.
795 low-capacity
cell-phone towers
in Red Corridor
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n the past three months, 795 mobilephone towers have been set up in
the Maoist-affected districts of the
country, known as the Red Corridor.
Mobile-phone connectivity is one of
many development projects being
taken up in the Maoist-affected states.
The National Democratic Alliance
government aims to erode the
influence of Maoists with connectivity
and a faster mode of communication.
There is a glitch though. These towers
can handle only 20 calls at a time.
he company is getting back to
manufacturing in India, after nearly a
decade with plans firmed up for two
models of the Bravia brand of television
sets to be made at Foxconn’s
Sriperumbudur plant.
The India arm of the company started
manufacturing in India last month with two
43-inch models of its Bravia line
televisions. The manufacturing is being
done by Taiwanese company Foxconn at
the company’s Sriperumbudur plant. At
the same campus, Foxconn is also
assembling products for Chinese smart
phone manufacturer Xiaomi.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had made
provisions in the Union Budget this year
to incentivise local manufacturing in line
with the government’s ‘Make in India’
initiative. To encourage manufacturing,
the central government had announced
extension of the Modified Special
Incentive Package Scheme (M-SIPS) for
five years, streamlining the process and
covering more product categories. First
introduced in 2012 as part of a National
Policy on Electronics, it provides for 20-25
per cent subsidy on capital expendit \