NEWS
10 CONSTRUCTION WEEK JULY 2019
JAPAN TO INVEST AROUND RS 13,000 CRORE IN VARIOUS
PROJECTS IN INDIA’S NORTH-EASTERN STATES
T
he government of Japan is in-
vesting Rs 13,000 crore in several
ongoing as well as new projects
in different states of India’s NE region.
This was disclosed after a meeting
which the DoNER Minister Dr Jitendra
Singh had with the Japanese delegation
led by Ambassador Kenji Hiramatsu.
Some of the projects in which Japan
will collaborate include Guwahati Wa-
ter Supply Project and Guwahati Sew-
age Project in Assam, Northeast Road
Network Connectivity Improvement
Project spread over Assam and Megha-
laya, Northeast Network Connectiv-
ity Improvement Project in Meghalaya,
Bio-diversity Conservation and Forest
Management Project in Sikkim, Sus-
tainable Forest Management Project in
Tripura, Technical Cooperation Project
for Sustainable Agriculture & Irrigation
in Mizoram, Forest Management Proj-
ect in Nagaland, etc.
Dr Jitendra Singh appreciated the
Japanese contribution to the develop-
ment of the North-Eastern region in the
last three to four years. He said, in the
times to come, new areas of collabora-tion will also be sought to be worked
out, which could possibly include Bam-
boo-related collaboration. It was this
government which amended the 90-
year old “Indian Forest Act of 1919” to
bring the home-grown Bamboo out of
its purview, he added.Japan will cooperate with India across several infrastructure projects.PIRAMAL REALTY UNVEILS ‘THE
TRILOGY’ AT PIRAMAL MAHALAXMI
Piramal Realty has launched
its final tower at Piramal
Mahalaxmi, its flagship project
in South Mumbai. With this
launch, Piramal Realty completes
the trilogy offering 2 & 3 bed
luxury residences starting at Rs
4.21 crore with unobstructed
lifetime views of the Mahalaxmi
racecourse and the Arabian Sea
through this tower.
Piercing the sky to over 800
feet, the newest tower will offer
a combination of 2 & 3 bed
residences with an exclusive gym,
lounge, and viewing deck for its
residents.
E
nergy Efficiency Services organ-
ised a stakeholders’ workshop
along with KfW where senior
functionaries of key departments of
government of Maharashtra were ad-
dressed about deployment of grid-con-
nected solar rooftop solutions in up to
5,000 buildings across the state within
the next 2-3 years.
EESL is already retrofitting govern-
ment buildings in Maharashtra with
energy efficient appliances, investing
Rs 325 crore to enable them to achieve
39% savings in annual energy costs.
The solar rooftop solutions will signifi-
cantly reduce the lifetime energy costsof these buildings, as they will avail
electricity at lower tariffs that will be de-
termined at levelised rates over the next
25 years.
Chandrakant Dada Patil, Minister of
Revenue, Relief & Rehabilitation and
Public Works, government of Maha-
rashtra, inaugurated the workshop,
which was graced by dignitaries like
Arvind Singh, principal secretary, energy
department, government of Maharash-
tra; Manoj Saunik, principal secretary,
PWD, GoM; Rajeev Sharma, chairman,
EESL; Sanjeev Kumar, MD; Ajit Sagne,
secretary (buildings) PWD, GoM; and,
Saurabh Kumar, MD, EESL.EESL, govt of Maharashtra explore installing solar
rooftops in 5,000 energy efficient public buildings