|
Great Nicobar Development Plan
Great Nicobar Development Plan is a planned mega-infrastructure project for the southern tip of Great Nicobar Island in Andaman Sea of India. The island comes under the Nicobar district administriation in the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Total project costing ₹75,000 crore (US$9.4 b in 2022) was conceived by NITI Aayog and is being developed by Andaman and Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation (ANIIDC). geostrategic importance for defence, logistics, commerce and industries, eco-tourism, coastal tourism, Coastal Regulation Zone, etc, The project include: # Galathea Bay International Container Transhipment Terminal (Galathea Bay ICTT) with 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo) capacity eventually. # Great Nicobar International Airport (GNIA), a greenfield airport with peak hour capacity of 4,000 passengers. # Great Nicobar Gas and Solar Power Plant (Great Nicobar GSPP) with 450-MVA capacity, spread over 16,610 hectares. # Two new green ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Nicobar Island
Great Nicobar is the southernmost and largest of the Nicobar Islands of India, north of Sumatra. History The Nicobar Island has been well known to Indian mariners since the time of the seafaring Cholas https://www.britannica.com/place/Nicobar-Islands In the 15th century, Great Nicobar Island was recorded as "Cui Lan island" (翠蘭嶼) during the voyages of Zheng He in the Mao Kun map of the Wu Bei Zhi. Great Nicobar Island was severely affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami with many deaths, and was cut off from all outside contact for more than a day. Geography The island of Sumatra is located to the south of Great Nicobar. The island covers but is sparsely inhabited, with a population of 8067, largely being covered by rainforest and known for its diverse wildlife. Topography The island has several rivers, including the Alexandra, Amrit Kaur, Dogmar and Galathea. Virtually all rivers flow in a southern or southwesterly direction, which is indicative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compensatory Afforestation
Compensatory Afforestation (CA) is defined as the process of afforestation, and associated regeneration activities are done to compensate for destroyed forest land that has been diverted to non-forest activities. In this context, non-forest activities mean the clearing of a forest or just a small part for the following purposes: Coffee cultivation, rubber, tea, plants with oil, medicinal plants or gardening crops. This may be for the purpose of personal use or for business use—or any other purpose other than the reforestation of the forest. Even though the forests are cut down, this process of Compensatory Afforestation ensures that the forest is still put into good use. Compensatory afforestation is also a means of creating non-forest land-use replacements. Non-forest purposes include the activities, for example, cultivation or redevelopment in an area that had forests previously. Mostly, Compensatory afforestation is mainly carried out for the purpose of agriculture or any ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rail Vikas Nigam
Rail Vikas Nigam Limited is an Indian public sector undertaking which works as the construction arm of the Ministry of Railways for project implementation and transportation infrastructure development. It was incorporated in 2003 to meet the country's surging infrastructural requirements and to implement projects on a fast-track basis. It is a Category-I Miniratna CPSE and Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under the administrative control of the Indian Ministry of Railways. The organization undertakes project execution from concept to commissioning and creates project-specific SPVs. RVNL’s mandate includes the mobilization of extra-budgetary resources (EBRs) through a mix of equity and debts via these SPVs. It is an offshoot of the implementation of National Rail Vikas Yojana (NRVY) announced from the ramparts of the Red Fort by the then Prime Minister, Shree Atal Bihari Vajpayee, during the Independence Day speech on 15 August 2002. NRVY was formally launched by the Hon’ble ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JSW Group
JSW Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, based in Mumbai. It is led by Sajjan Jindal and part of the O.P. Jindal Group. The Group's diverse businesses include steel, energy, infrastructure, cement and paints, across India, the United States, South America, and Africa. Group companies *JSW Steel – JSW Steel has one of the world's largest single blast furnaces with a capacity of 4.8 MTPA. JSW's overall installed capacity is 23 MTPA. *JSW Energy – JSW Energy has a power generation capacity of 4531 megawatts. *JSW Infrastructure – Based in Mumbai, its primary business interests are in the development of infrastructure for ports, roads, and rail connectivity. *JSW Cement – JSW Cement has a capacity of 17 MTPA. *JSW Paints – On 2 May 2019, JSW Group established JSW Paints with a total investment of , with 250 of equity investment and a ₹350 crore debt investment from Axis Bank. *JSW Ventures – JSW Ventures is the venture capital arm of JSW Group which invests ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essar Group
Essar Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company, founded by Shashi Ruia and Ravi Ruia in 1969. As Essar Global Fund Limited (EGFL), the company controls a number of assets across the core sectors of energy (oil refining, oil and gas exploration, and production, power), infrastructure & logistics (ports, projects), metals & mining, technology and retail (oilfield services, IT, food retail). EGFL holds nearly 100% stake in all its investments. Significant Essar Group companies include Essar Oil UK, Essar Ports, Essar Oil & Gas Exploration & Production, Essar Shipping, Essar Power, and Essar Projects. History In 1969, Shashi Ruia won a major contract worth Rs. 2.3 crore for the construction of an outer breakwater for Chennai port, thus laying the foundation of Essar Group. In 1976, Essar purchased India's first private tanker for US$2 million. In 1995, Essar Group entered the telecom sector with a Swiss PTT joint venture partnership branded as the Essar Cellph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Container Corporation Of India
Container Corporation of India Limited (CONCOR) is an Indian public sector undertaking which is engaged in transportation and handling of containers. Incorporated in March 1988 under the Companies Act, CONCOR commenced operations in November 1989 taking over an existing network of seven inland container depots (ICDs) from Indian Railways. History Indian Railway's strategic initiative to containerise cargo transport put India on the intermodal freight transport map for the first time in 1966. Given India's size (almost from North to South and East to West), rail transport is often a cheaper option for all cargo over medium and long distances, especially if the cost of inter-modal transfers can be reduced. Seeing that containerised multi-modal door-to-door transport provided a solution to this problem, in 1966 Indian Railways entered the market for moving door-to-door domestic cargo in special DSO containers. Although the first ISO container in India had been handled in Kochi as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adani Ports & SEZ
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Limited (Adani Ports & SEZ; also APSEZ) formerly known as Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Limited, is an Indian port operator. APSEZ represents a large network of ports with India's largest SEZ at Mundra. APSEZ is India's largest private port operator with presence across 12 locations. Locations The company commenced operations at Mundra Port and currently operates 10 ports in India comprising 45 berths and 14 terminals across 6 states. Through its subsidiary company Adani Logistics Ltd., APSEZ operates 3 Inland Container Depots, a storehouse of goods before they are custom cleared at ports. It is located in Kishangarh, Rajasthan; Patli, Haryana and Kila Raipur, Punjab. It holds Category 1 License for the Indian Railways that helps in pan-India cargo movement. The trains owned by Adani Logistics were used to dispatch 30,000 tonnes of food grains to feed over 60 lakh citizens across the states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, West Bengal and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicobarese People
The Nicobarese people are an Austroasiatic-speaking people of the Nicobar Islands, a chain of islands in the Bay of Bengal north of Sumatra, forming part of the union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Only 12 of the 19 islands are inhabited. The largest and main island is Great Nicobar. The term Nicobarese refers to the dominant tribes of the Nicobar Islands. On each island, the people have specific names, but together they are the Nicobarese. They call themselves Holchu, which means "friend". The Nicobarese are a designated Scheduled Tribe in India. History The Nicobarese may not have been the first people to live in the islands, they appear to have shared the islands with Shompen who came to the islands earlier. The islands have been under the power of various Asian empires in the 16th century, Denmark from 1754–1869, Great Britain from 1869–1947, and India from 1947. Today they are administered by India as part of the Union Territory of the Andaman and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shompen People
The Shompen or Shom Pen are the indigenous people of the interior of Great Nicobar Island, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Shompen are a designated Scheduled Tribe. Etymology and autonym "Shompen" is possibly an English mispronunciation of "Shamhap", the Nicobarese name for the tribe. The Shompens living on the western side of the island call themselves ''Kalay'', and those on the eastern side ''Keyet'', with both groups referring to each other as ''Buavela''. A suggestion from 1886 that the Shompen call themselves ''Shab Daw'a'' has not been confirmed by modern research. History of contact Before the first outside contact with the Shompen in the 1840s, there is no reliable information about these peoples. Danish Admiral Steen Bille was the first to contact them in 1846 and Frederik Adolph de Roepstorff, a British officer who had already published works on the languages of Nicobar and Andaman, collected ethnographic and linguistic d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Tribal Affairs
The Ministry of Tribal Affairs, a branch of Government of India, looks after the affairs of the tribal communities in India by providing educational scholarships, grants to create more health infrastructure in tribal communities and direct cash transfer schemes to economically backward tribal families. History The ministry was set up in 1999 after the bifurcation of Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (India) to have a more focused approach on the integrated socio-economic development of the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the most underprivileged of the Indian Society. Before the formation of the ministry the tribal Affairs was being handled by different ministries which were: #As a Division of the Ministry of Home Affairs known as Tribal Division since after independence up to September 1985. #Ministry of Welfare: From September 1985 to May 1998. #Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment from May 1998 to September 1999. Functions of the Ministry #Tribal Welfare-Planning, Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planned Community
A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land. This contrasts with settlements that evolve in a more ''ad hoc'' and organic fashion. The term ''new town'' refers to planned communities of the new towns movement in particular, mainly in the United Kingdom. It was also common in the European colonization of the Americas to build according to a plan either on fresh ground or on the ruins of earlier Native American villages. Planned capitals A planned capital is a city specially planned, designed and built to be a capital. Several of the world's national capitals are planned capitals, including Canberra in Australia, Brasília in Brazil, Belmopan in Belize, New Delhi in India, Abuja in Nigeria, Islamabad in Pakistan, Naypyidaw in Myanmar (Burma) and Washington, D.C. in the United States, and the modern parts of Astana in Kaza ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Nicobar
Little Nicobar ( Nicobarese: ''Ong'') is one of the Nicobar Islands, India. History The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami caused extensive damage to this island. Geography Little Nicobar Island's area is . There are a few smaller islands off of Little Nicobar's shores: Menchal, Pulomilo, Treis/Albatei, Trak/Mafuya and Meroe. The island of Katchal is located to the north. Demographics According to the 2011 census of India, Little Nicobar Island had 278 villagers in 59 households. The effective literacy rate (the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) was 100%. Pulopanja, Puloulo, and Makhahu (Victoria Harbour) are the main villages on the island. Administration The island belongs to the township of Great Nicobar of Little Nicobar Taluk A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
