[BolliBatlu]

Coconut Park

Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP, said he has planned to have special agricultural zones in Puttur and Belthangady. Mr. Kateel said he has proposed the setting up of a Coconut Park in Bantwal to the Coconut Development Board.

ATS launches ops at new storage tank terminal in India

Roy-Lawrence duo launches 'Roy-L' mineral water in Mangaluru

HPCL sets sights on Mangalore Refinery for acquisition

Kochi-Mangaluru pipeline to be completed by next year

Kudremukh Iron Ore Company signs pact with CleanMax Solar

BR Shetty Interview - What happened to this project?

Meanwhile, businessman BR Shetty is expected to invest Rs 500 crore which includes Rs 250 crore for WellnessSpa and Boat Club at Tannir Bhavi and Pharma industry at a cost of Rs 250 crore.

Fourth Phase of MRPL Expansion: Land owners give conditional approval

Nandini flavoured milk to come in PET bottles soon

Tumbe Neera Unit: Revival Attempt with Private Participation
Government urged to hand over neera unit to Vitla-based FPO

Geologists discover a seabed of 'treasure' in Indian waters
Geologists strike seabed gold in peninsular India

Karnataka seabed having iron ore (reported earlier), lime mud / calcareous sediments may be good news for steel, cement & construction industries if mineral deposits can be exploited commercially. Similarly phosphate-rich sediments for fertilizer industries. It is not clear from the news whether precious stones are discovered near Karnataka shores.

MRPL gets ‘green’ signal for BS VI project
Green nod to MRPL's Rs 1,810 cr upgradation project in K'taka
MRPL gears up to produce cleaner fuel
Prior to the merger with ONGC, HPCL is likely to take over MRPL
MRPL declines after posting disappointing Q1 numbers

MRPL plans to set up desalination plant

Dakshina Kannada district administration warms up to idea of setting up SAZ

MANGALURU: A proposal to set up special agriculture zone (SAZ) on lines with special economic zone is under consideration, deputy commissioner K G Jagadeesha said. There is sufficient demand for locally grown vegetables and flowers abroad and this has spurred the demand to set up a SAZ, DC said adding a committee consisting of agriculture experts, officials, farmer leaders will be set up the committee is expected to submit its report in this regard in next two months.

DC is searching for 250 acres for SAZ
Ready to provide land for Special Agriculture Zone: DC - Unused land of SEZ can be used for SAZ.

I don't think MSEZ land can be separated out as SAZ but export-oriented agri industries can come up in multiproduct MSEZ itself just like export-oriented marine food processing industries.

I was thinking that SAZ is for reserving the land for agriculture permanently and whole Puttur, Sullia and Belthangadi fall within SAZ. Okay now it means agriculture based SEZ also, most probably food processing industries & flower packing industries. Will it be a multimode Agri-Logistics Hub? (If it is located near Neatravati/Gurupur rivers then waterway can also be used when it is realized.) Will this SEZ is in addition to Coconut Park which is not export oriented park?

ONGC Mangalore Petrochemicals Limited (OMPL) video

Modernisation of JBF PTA plant in Mangalore to be completed by 1HY of FY 2018

Syngene plans to scale up for biologics

Hesitation of two IT companies to come to Mangaluru

Instead of service-based IT companies Mangaluru should focus on product-based IT companies. Focused efforts on on startup & research on specific domains will definitely lead to product-based IT companies.

All trainees of MRPL Kaushal Vikas Kendra get job offers

So, Mangaluru lost more people to the parched city. This is what 'Made in Kudla' product!

Biotech skill enhancement programme launched in Karnataka

... He (Mittur N Jagadish, Head of the Bio-Tech Facilitation Cell of the Karnataka Biotechnology and Information Technology Services (KBITS)) said that the theme-based biotech parks are at various stages of implementation in Bidar, Dharwad, Mangaluru ...

We are hearing this for last 8 years - Marine Biotech Park at Tannirbhavi. How many more years this park will be at various stages of implementation?

Adding spice to life - Aruna Masalas brings the best of Indian flavours

MRPL planning to up production to 25 million tonnes per year

The government will set up an industrial park exclusively for women entrepreneurs at Mangaluru

Originally Posted by BolliBatlu

PCPIR at Mangalore, Karnataka (~250 Sq.Km) Dated Aug 2016?

India designates port-led coastal economic zones

I think Mangaluru should have Marine Science & Technology CEZ that includes Marine Robotics. ... And there should be a 'Marine University' in either Mangaluru or Udupi.

Originally Posted by BolliBatlu

Rs 1.2 lakhs cost Mangaluru-Bengaluru Highspeed Highway

Cost of 1500 km Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) is around 6.4 lakh crores. That is 426 crores per km. Cost per km in case of NH-75 is around 400 crores. DMIC includes cost of development of many investment regions. What are the investment regions or industrial townships planned along NH-75 Economic Corridor? Page 161 of Final Report for Sagarmala (Vol. II) has identified 12 industrial complexes (i.e. industrial areas, some are partially developed already). Whether cost includes development of PCPIR infrastructure (as Sagarmala project has identified Mangalore as one of possible Petrochemcical Coastal Economic Zone) and Medical Tourism Investment Region? Whether it includes cost of development of port based smart city at Maravoor? Cost may also include cost of Natural Gas pipeline proposed (page 69/62 of Final Report for Sagarmala (Vol. III)) along NH-75. But the Sagarmala report still proposes NH-75 as fourlane road. And there is no plan for improving railway connectivity like doubling of Mangaluru-Hassan Railway line.

Note that surprisingly Sagarmala project does not have any plan for undersea minerals or sea-based powerplants.

NH-75 Economical Corridor should/can have following in Tulunadu or Karavali Karnataka.

• Petrochemcials and Petroleum Investment Region (PCPIR) along with Petrochemicals University or RGIPT. Plastics Park (including fibre-reinforced plastic) & Technical Textile Park can be considered as a part of this though they can include bioplastic & biodegradable components.
• Medical/Health Tourism Investment Region (Health Tourism District) - I hope that this includes Medical Equipments & Pharmaceuticals manufacturing.
• Special Agricultural Zone (SAZ, along with Paschima Vahini and Agriculture based multimode logistics hub).
• 'Marine Invest Region' (MIR) - Sagarmala also mentions about ship building and repairing industries for the Mangalore CEZ. (Sagarmala also mentions that all types of export oriented heavy equipments should be manufactured in coastal regions). (I think Karwar is better place for defense/navy ships & equipments manufacturing and also seaplanes manufacturing as it is close to Belgaum which is deamed to be an aerospace hub. Though Mangalore can cater needs of coast guards) Tulunadu should have a 'Marine Invest Region' focusing more on manufacturing watercrafts like catamarans (Karnataka tourism policy has vision to encourage catamarans), traditional sail boats, houseboats, speedboats, highspeed boats, kayaks, coracles, commercial/civilian/recreational hovercrafts, ferry boats, amphibians, underwater vehicles including underwater drones, underwater robots, jetskis, dinghies, runabouts, surfboards & lifeboats, other gadgets used in marine/underwater recreational sports, barges. And also offshore/ocean/subsea heavy engineering equipments (including maritime heavy engineered equipments) like offshore oil recovery equipments, coastal construction equipments,floating production storage and offloading equipments, single buoy mooring, floating docks, renewable eneregy equipments like ocean turbines, pipelines, cables. For this we need educational and research institutes like IMU & NIOT (India has in TN & AP only but needs more considering vastness of this field) working on domains like offshore oil recovery, marine metals and corrosion, coastal construction, global climate monitoring, renewable energy equipments like ocean turbines, underwater vehicles, remote sensing, marine transportation, naval architecture, instrumentation design etc. (There are more imortant stuffs to do with NIOT and we will discuss it once it is set up in Mangalore). 'Marine Invest Region' also includes investments in Fisheries (comes under agriculture), Marine Biotech (including marine biotech institute) & Pharmacognosy domain.

I think as per Sagarmala 'Mangaluru CEZ' even includes Uttara Kannada district Belikere being satellite port of New Mangalore port. So PCPIR, MIR, SAZ may cover entire Mangaluru CEZ.

Awareness programme for MSMEs

The main purpose of the ZED scheme is to improve the quality of goods manufactured by Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the country with ‘zero defects’ and to ensure that the goods have ‘zero effect’ on the environment, a release stated.