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National Urban Renewal Mission prepared with an outlay of Rs.5,500 crore in the current financial year 2005-06.
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National Mission Mode Project on e-Governance in municipalities to be launched in August, 2005 in 35 cities with million plus population
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National Urban Information System (NUIS) to be implemented in 137 towns/ cities in the first phase.
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National Urban Transport Policy finalized.
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Draft Master Plan for Delhi-2021 notified and the final plan to be ready by December 2005.
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Draft Regional Plan 2021 published by NCR Planning Board.
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An amount of Rs.114.5 crore released for infrastructure development in North Eastern Region including Sikkim for 29 projects.
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First underground section of 4 km. from Vishwa Vidyalaya to Kashmere Gate of the second line inaugurated. The underground line from Vishwa Vidyalaya to Central Secretariat and the third line from Indraprastha to Dwarka (25.65 km.) to be completed by June 2005 and March 2006 respectively.
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Delhi Development Authority allotted 12,659 houses during the year.
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CPWD completed 860 units of various types of General Pool Residential Accommodation and 35,250 Sq.m of General Pool Office Accommodation in addition to 4,517 residential units for other Ministries & Police Organizations
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A project for setting up permanent resettlement of Tsunami affected people in Andaman & Nicobar islands and Pondichery taken up.
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Under the Scheme for Infrastructural Development in Mega Cities, a sum of Rs.303.12 crore released to Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Mumbai.
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A total of 206 new water supply projects for towns having population less than 20,000 were sanctioned under Accelerated Urban Water Supply Programme.
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Four proposals for setting up desalination plant at Ramanathapuram & Keelakarai in Tamil Nadu, Bheemunipatnam in Andhra Pradesh, Gopalpur in Orissa and Muthialpet in Pondicherry approved.
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Solid Waste Management and Drainage in 10 selected Airfield Towns started functioning.
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About 19 new infrastructure projects at an estimated cost of Rs.1,272 crore with loan component of Rs.824 crore sanctioned by the National Capital Region Planning Board during the year.
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For intensive exploration of oil and gas in the country, global competitive offer of fifth round under the New Exploration Licensing Policy (NELP-V) launched with 20 blocks (6 deepwater, 2 shallow water and 12 on land blocks) for receipt of bids by 31 May 2005. For the first time data on all the blocks made available online and promotional campaign drew huge response.
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Three oil & gas discoveries announced by ONGC- one in the western offshore and two in the eastern offshore in KG basin while Oil India discovered oil & gas in Assam.
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RIL-Niko consortium’s development plan for their gas discovery in Krishna-Godavari in deep water approved at an estimated investment of $ 2.47 billion.
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OVL acquired exploration blocks in Australia, Egypt, and Qatar; OVL & Oil India obtained interests in a block in Ivory Coast while OIL – IOC consortium acquired one block in Libya.
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Efforts to harness alternative sources of gas expected to lead to first commercial production of Coal Bed Methane (CBM) in the country in 2006-07 in the 16 CBM contracts signed in first two rounds. Steps taken to offer more blocks under 3rd round of CBM by the end of 2005.
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To convert commercially non-producible coal from deeper layers into gas, a move initiated to utilise Underground Coal Gasification technology.
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“Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Limited” a special purpose vehicle was incorporated to set up strategic crude oil storage of 5 million ton at Mangalore, Vizag and third location in or near Mangalore to cater to sudden supply disruptions.
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Natural gas import initiatives through transnational pipelines and in the liquefied form pursued. Petroleum Ministry authorised to negotiate pipeline gas imports from Iran through Pakistan. For pipeline gas imports from Myanmar through Bangladesh, a draft MoU for approval by respective Governments prepared.
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GAIL and IOC signed an agreement with M/s NIGEC (National Iranian Gas Export Corporation to import 7.5 MMTPA of LNG from Iran paving way for detailed discussions in this regard and on participation of Indian companies in Iranian oilfields.
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A long pending decision taken to undertake construction of Kochi Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal and the capacity of the proposed terminal to be raised to 5 MMTPA from the earlier plan of 2.5 MMTPA.
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The first ever Ministerial Round Table of the principal Asian oil producers and buyers held with a view to promote stability, security and sustainability in the Asian oil economy through regional cooporation.
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To reinforce diplomatic thrust for energy security, an Advisory Committee on Oil Diplomacy for Energy Security constituted. An Advisory Committee on Synergy in Energy set up with a view to making oil PSUs domestically & globally competitive for achieving national objectives of energy security and for suggesting appropriate structure of the oil PSUs.
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Steps taken to encourage/streamline supply and use of bio-fuels for blending with petrol and diesel as the resources like ethanol, bio-diesel and hydrogen hold a significant potential to supplement efforts to reduce import dependence for hydrocarbons.
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The OMCs in cooperation with the State government are experimenting with running bio-diesel blended diesel buses in Gujarat, Haryana and Maharashtra..
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A Hydrogen Corpus Fund set up with a corpus of Rs 100 crore through contribution of oil and gas companies and the Oil Industry Development Board (OIDB) for supporting research & development in various aspects of hydrogen.
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A number of fiscal measures taken to contain the adverse impact on common man of the unprecedented rise and volatility of international oil prices since late 2003/early 2004, distressingly escalated since mid-2004. Petrol prices frozen since November, 2004.
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Effected excise & customs duty reductions on three different occasions bringing down duties to on domestic LPG and PDS kerosene to zero level besides reductions in customs duties on crude oil and excise & customs duties on petrol and diesel.
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A pilot project approved for strengthening distribution of kerosene under PDS in 10 per cent of the blocks (nearly 600) to ensure its availability to consumers.
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Against a demand of 111.17 million tons of products in the country in 2004-05 refining capacity stood 127.37 million tons per annum (MMTPA) up from 118.37 MMTPA during 2003-04.
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Petroleum sector emerged as a big exporter with net-exports increasing by 69 per cent in 2004-05 to reach Rs.28,385 crore from Rs.16,781 crore in 2003-04.
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Clean auto fuels in the country made available for supplying Euro-III fuels in Metro and 7 other major cities and Euro-II in the rest of India by April 01, 2005. Barring Euro-II diesel in 7 States, all the other stipulations of Mashelkar Committee to be fully covered by October, 2005.
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