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Nagpur Sical Gupta road terminal project launched

    NAGPUR: Country's leading provider of integrated multi-modal logistics solutions for bulk and containerized cargo and offshorfe logistics, Sical logistics on Sunday launched Nagpur Sical Gupta road terminal at Multi Modal International Hub Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN).

    Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Vilas Muttemwar and State BJP President Nitin Gadkari laid the foundation stone of Rs 119.3 crore project. Chairman of Chennai-based Sical, Ashwin Muthiah and Chairman of Gupta Group of Industries, Padmesh Gupta were present on the occasion.

    Speaking to reporters Muthiah and Gupta said a special purpose vehicle, Nagpur Sical Gupta Road Terminal (NSGRT), comprising Sical with 51 per cent stake, Maharashtra Airport Development Company 26 per cent and Gupta Coal with 23 per cent stake, will build, operate and manage the road terminal.

    Sical MD and Group CEO, Sudhir Rangnekar said road terminal will stretch across 60 hectares of area and have parking facilities for 1150 vehicles including multi axle vehicles and cold storage. It would be completed by January 2009, he added.

    NSGRT was formed in April 2007 and agreements were signed in August 2007. Rangekar said Sical was handling 22 mn tonnes of BUL and 5,00,000 teu (twenty euqal units) of containerized cargo.

    Sical's delivery network includes walk-in-berth at Chennai for ships carrying bulk cargo, a container terminal at Tuticorin.



Deshmukh hails Nagpur airport upgradation

    Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has welcomed yesterday's Cabinet decision to approve the upgrading of the Nagpur airport to a world class passenger and cargo hub to boost tourism and international trade, saying that it would generate large-scale employment for the embattled Vidharbha region.

    Deshmukh said, "Finally the long-standing demand has been met which would, among other things, also generate large-scale employment for the embattled Vidharbha region."

    Talking to a serried class of journalists here last night, Deshmukh said, "It feels good that finally a long-felt demand has been met and it is a victory of the people of the entire state."

    He said the handing over of the project by the Centre to the state government would take place as soon as possible. Procedural formalities regarding a third international airport near Panwel, near Mumbai, would start within the next six months.


Goods train derails near Nagpur

Nagpur: Ten wagons of a Guwahati-bound goods train derailed near Gondia in Maharashtra this morning, disrupting rail traffic. The derailment occurred between Bortalao and Darekasa sections in Nagpur division of South East Central Railway.

    The rice-laden wagons fell on the adjoining track, disrupting traffic between Nagpur and Durg, official sources said.


Nagpur med college to get Rs 100 cr grant:Ramadoss

    The Nagpur medical college may receive a grant of Rs 100 crore under the second phase of Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, to upgrade it to AIIMS standards, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Anbumani Ramadoss said today.

    The ministry has already announced the grant of Rs 100 crore to eight institutions across the country as part of phase-I of the scheme. The J J Group of Hospitals here was a beneficiary in the first phase and the implementation of the scheme was formally started today after the Maharashtra government handed over a cheque of Rs 20 crore as its share of the project.

    "Within a month I will be moving a note for upgrading five to six medical colleges in the country and Nagpur would be the first among that list. I will personally meet the Prime Minister," Ramadoss said. While speaking at a function organised by the Maharashtra government to felicitate him for making the grant to J J Hospital, the minister said, "Union Ministers Murli Deora,Vilas Muttemwar and Chief Minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh can also meet the PM.

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