Knowledge City, a state-of-the-art engineering campus at Vadodara,inaugurated by Mr. Naik, The Chairman, L&T
L&T Knowledge City at Vadodara is spread in 112 acre of land. This state-of-the-art engineering campus at Vadodara will meet the high-end design and engineering needs of the hydrocarbon and power sectors. In the hydrocarbon space, it will cater to the needs of the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors, and in power, design support for complete projects. L&T expects to generate project exports revenue of over Rs. 2000 crores within five years, and will provide employment to 4000 - 5000 technical professionals in next four to five years.
Hyderabad based ZeroStock Retail is set to expand retail presence of its premium menswear brand Cornerstone in Gujarat. Having launched its first exclusive store in the state in Vadodara. Till now Cornerstone has set up around 20 exclusive outlets across seven cities, including Vadodara, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kochi and Jaipur.
Vadodara Maha Nagar Seva Sadan, previously known as Vadodara Municipal Corporation has won the prestigious Best Urban Transport Services Award for providing the outstanding bus services to the citizens of Vadodara.
MphasiS opens a call centre at Vadodara. This new call center will be equipped with 400 seats, and grow to 800 seats and have 2500 people within the next 12 months. The agents have been specially trained in linguistic, soft skills & call handling techniques to deliver unparalleled experience to the customers.
Soon Vadodara will have Rs 3 crore Hi-tech Regional Emergency Response Centre to provide coordinated relief, rescue and medical facilities. The proposed centre will be armed with the fleet of 35 hi-tech foreign vehicles including Rescue vehicle, Hazardous material container, command and control vehicle, lighting trailers, Mobile working station.
Vadodara based hotilier Piyush Shah has proposed a 210 rooms, 3 Star modular hotel to be setup in Vadodara city. Site for the project is identified and hotel may start receiving guest by 2010.
It is the first fully foreign company owned coach factory in India.
US transportation and aviation major Bombardier Inc.?s Indian arm inaugurated here, at Vadodara, on Wednesday India?s first fully foreign owned railway coach manufacturing plant.Bombardier Transportation India (BTI)is a subsidiary of Bombardier Inc, a Fortune 500 company. It will manufacture coach shells and bogies in the new factory here at an industrial hub of Vadodara in the western India state of Gujarat. Initially, the unit will manufacture 340 Movia metro cars for the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) and is also expected to shape up as an engineering centre for its global projects and for low-cost sourcing.
Around 100 crocodiles will be taken out from the Vishwamitri river and shifted to the Aajwa lake in Vadodara. Vadodara Municipal Corporation has initiated Vishwamitri river cleaning project. In the course of this project, crocodiles in the river will have to be shifted. In a meeting between Vadodara?s Mayor and local animal welfare volunteer organizations on Saturday it was decided that initially around 50 crocodiles will be shifted to Ajwa lake while in second phase another 50 crocodiles will be shifted to an enclosure near the river bed. After completion of the river cleaning project all crocodiles would be brought back to the Vishwamitri river again where a new crocodile park will be developed.
ViTCOS, the city bus operator in Vadodara city has proposed to bring 10 to 15 double decker buses in its city bus service of Vadodara. At present the company operates city bus service in Vadodara through 100 mini buses.
