Five interested for making port in Barunei Muhana, Kendrapada
Barunei, Kendrapada (many interested), Kendrapada November 27th. 2009, 12:28pmFollowing is an excerpt from a report in Financial Express.
Besides ArcelorMittal, there are four others, Jamshedpur -based Adhunik Metaliks, Chennai-based SPI Ports Pvt Ltd and Sical Logistic Ltd besides Mundra Port and SEZ Limited, Mumbai has given proposals.
While Adhunik Metaliks proposed to set up a 10-30 million tonne (MT) capacity port at Barunai at an investment of Rs 1683.62 crore, SPI Ports expressed interest to build a 19.76- 41.79MT capacity port at an investment of Rs 1,550 crore.
Sical Logistic wanted to set up a 18-46MT capacity port at an estimated cost of Rs 2,500-3,600 crore and Mundra company proposed to invest Rs 5,000 crore, the minister said.
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December 1st, 2009 at 6:20 am
I have been following your site for some time now and am happy to find it as a ‘single window’:) to whats happening in Odisha on the so called development front. Well, development is necessary and imperative but you will agree that it should not be the ‘andha dhund’ types…i,e at any cost. The Barunei Muhana is a very very ecologically sensitive area and if I am not wrong it is either within or adjacent to the Bhittarkanika National Park. There are ports coming up everywhere, infact at most of the river mouths in Odisha. Does the state need so many of them ? There are expert reports which blames the Paradeep port for the large scale destruction of mangrove forests, one of the main reasons for the super cyclone’s destructive trail. Mangrove forests are also spawning grounds for many varieties of edible fish on which thousands of traditional fishermen depend for survival. If ports are necessary then should it be built in such a fragile region ? The government should be rational in its approach to development. If a port benefits a particular company,gives employment to only a handful (highly mechanized systems do not generate employment)and destroys the environment, I am afraid it is a recipe for disaster, if not today then in the very near future.