Following is from a report in Business Standard.
The construction work of the Rs 2460 crore Dhamara port, being developed by Dhamara Port Company Limited (DPCL), a joint venture of Tata Steel and L & T, is on track with more than one third of the work being completed.
The work is mostly concentrated around building railway connectivity, channel dredging, and berth construction.
DPCL, till date, has invested about Rs 900 crore in the project coming up in Bhadrakh district of Orissa. With the payments of balance dues for procurement of machineries due in the coming months, the investment figure is likely to increase substantially. “Work on all fronts starting from rail connectivity to Bulk Material Handling System (BMHS) is going on in full swing and more than a third of the construction work is over.
We hope to operationalise the first phase of the port by 2010”, Santosh Kumar Mohapatra, chief executive officer (CEO), DPCL told Business Standard. He said, the construction of rail connectivity from Bhadrakh to Dhamara is going on in full scale and the embankment construction is almost complete. Similarly, the construction of berths, cargo handling system, channel dredging is also going on. Meanwhile, the company has already placed orders for all the machineries.
Following is from the PIB http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=36480.
RAJYA SABHA
The list of Ports where Railways are considering rail connectivity is given hereunder:
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S.No.
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State
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Port
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1.
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Maharashtra
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1. Rewas Port
2. PNP Port
3. Dighi Port
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2.
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Orissa
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1. Dharma Port
2. Kirtania Port
3. Gopalpur Port
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3.
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Andhra Pradesh
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1. Gangavaram Port
2. Krishnapatam Port
3. Machilipatnam Port
4. Nizampatnam Port
5. Kakinada Port
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4.
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Gujarat
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1. Hazira Port
2. Bedi Port
3. Porbandar Port
4. Rozi Port
5. Dahej Port
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5.
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Tamil Nadu
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1. Karaikal Port
2. Ennore Port
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6.
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Kerala
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1. Vallarpadam Port
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7.
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Karnataka
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1. Belekeri Port
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8.
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West Bengal
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1. Diamond Harbor
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The status of the proposals in Gujarat is as under :
Gujarat :
· Gujarat Maritime Board had commissioned M/s. RITES for a feasibility cum traffic survey report for providing rail connectivity to Rozi & Bedi Port from Windmill Station in year 2003. GMB has yet to approach Railways for rail connectivity.
· Gujarat Maritime Board had commissioner M/s RITES for a survey to provide connectivity to Porbandar Port. The report was submitted in June 2002. GMB is considering constructing a rail link of 5.1 km from Porbandar to Porbandar Port at their own cost.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways, Shri R. Velu in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
Following is an excerpt from a report in Pioneer.
Though the State Government has not been successful so far to acquire lands for mega industries like Posco and Arcelor- Mittal, it has been able to acquire lands for the upcoming Dhamra Port. The Port will cater to demands of the industries coming up in the Kalinga Nagar area in Jajpur district.
… Revenue Minister Manmohan Samal said the Government had so far acquired 2,033.47 acres of land from three tehsils for Dhamra port. Under Chandbali tehsil, Government has acquired 954.74 acres of land. It has also acquired 564.64 acres of land in Tihiri and 517.27 acres in Bhadrak tehsil. 1,510 people have already got the compensation for giving their land for the port. Another, 683 people will get compensation.
The Port Authority has so far given Rs 56 crore to the district administration for the purpose of giving compensation against land acquisition.
Astaranga, Puri (Navayuga interested), Bahabalpur, Balasore (unlikely), Bahuda Muhana, Ganjam (many interested), Balasore, Baliharchandi, Puri (many interested), Barunei, Kendrapada (many interested), Bhadrakh, Birlas, Chandipur, Balasore (Unlikely), Chudamani, Bhadrakh (Birlas interested), Dhamara port (under constr.), Ganjam, Gopalpur port (under constr.), Inchudi, Balasore (many interested), Jagatsinghpur, Jatadhari port (POSCO), Kendrapada, Kirtania, Balasore (Creative ports, Chennai interested), Palur, Ganjam (Future metals interested), Paradeep port, Ports and waterways, Puri chitta
Dharitri has a nice overview (page1, page2, page3) of the status of the various ports that Orissa plans to have. Following are some highlights from that report.
The article says that the Balasore district ports face problems from the Dept. of Defense because of the missile testing range nearby. The article does not mention the following plan:
