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Israel-India Business Guide - Agriculture &Water
As per the Govt of India’s policy, Foreign Direct
Investment (FDI) is allowed under the automatic route
in the construction and maintenance of roads, rail-beds,
bridges, tunnels, pipelines, ropeways, runways, waterways
& water reservoirs, hydroelectric projects, power plants
and industrial plants.
Major Players
Hindustan Dorr-Oliver
is a leader in the industrial EPC
market, HindustanDorr-Oliver Limited, has beenproviding
state-of-art technology solutions to its clients for about
7 decades now. It is a supplier of proprietary solid-liquid
separation equipment to being a major Engineering EPC
player, assimilating new technologies, and providing the
best, most cost effective and integrated turnkey solutions.
Thermax Limited
is an INR 55.77 billion company,
providing a range of engineering solutions to the energy
and environment sectors.It has 12 manufacturing facilities,
7 of which are in India and 5 overseas. Their presence
spans 75 countries across Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle
East, CIS countries, Europe, USA and South America.The
group consists of 5 domestic wholly owned subsidiaries, 13
overseas wholly owned subsidiaries, and 2 joint ventures.
DegrémontLimited
offersa full rangeof contractingservices,
including conceptual design and process origination, project
implementation, construction and installation/performance
testing. Degrémont plants in India today treat about 1.8
billion liters of drinking water, 500 million liters of sewage
water, more than 100 million liters of recycled water per day
Ramky Infrastructure
is an integrated construction,
infrastructure development, and management company
in India. It has done a range of construction and
infrastructure projects in various sectors such as water
and waste water, transportation (including terminals),
irrigation, industrial construction (including SEZs &
industrial parks), power transmission and distribution,
buildings (including residential, commercial & retail
property). In the last decade, Ramky has completed 115
water and waste-water projects.
Ion Exchange
pioneered water treatment in India
and is the leading company in water and environment
management, with a strong international presence.
Formed in 1964, as a subsidiary of the Permutit Company
of UK, IT became a wholly Indian company in 1985.
KEC International Ltd
, part of the RPG Group, has around
14 projects ranging from water resource management,
water treatment to construction of canals, dams, tunnels
&, embankments, flood control & lift irrigation system.
Water is the new infrastructure sector which will emerge
and will have a very long run.
Other companies that have ventured into water sector
include Adani Infra (India) Ltd, GMR Infrastructure Ltd,
HCC Ltd, LancoInfratech Ltd, Welspun India Ltd, Punj
Lloyd, IVRCL Ltd, Gammon India and NCC Ltd.
Major projects inWater Management with Israel
• Israel NewTech, an initiative led by the Israeli Ministry of
Industry,TradeandLabour, ismatching Israeli clean-tech
companies with Indian partners to tender solutions for
the Ganges. The Indian government aims to have no
untreated municipal sewage or industrial runoff enter
the Ganges by 2020. It combines technological aspects
and elements from waste water treatment and water
management up to irrigation.
• Israel and India have signed a key agreement on water
treatmenttechnologies.Thedealincludesthedevelopment
of joint research and development ventures in the fields of
resource management, sewage, and drainage.
• Israel’s Netafim’s collaboration with India’s JK Seeds is
aimed at adapting the drip method for rice farming.
• India & Israel have signed a joint declaration for
cooperation in the field of technologies for treatment
and purification of water in India’s urban area. The
collaboration in such vital areas like urban renewal, solid
wastemanagement, drainage, desalination technology,
recycle and re-use of waste water, technology for water
use andmetering, financial sustainability of urbanwater
supply, sanitation and sewerage services, preparation
of city master plans including efficient use of land, land
economics, transport corridors.
Other Projects
Thegovernment of Indiahas signedanagreementwith the
World Bank for USD 37 million loans to support Himachal
Pradesh Mid-Himalayan Watershed Development Project.
Gujarat government has launched a USD 1.61 billion
Saurashtra Narmada Avtaran Irrigation Yojana project
which aims to fill all 115 dams in the region with Narmada
water by interlinking a total of 87 rivers.
An international consortium, consisting of two Japanese
multinational companies, Hitachi and Itochu, and a
Singaporean enterprise, Hyflux, a leading firm in water
management projects, will set up a major desalination
plant at Dahej at an estimated cost of USD 0.32 billion.
The Rajasthan government has received USD 102 million
as loan from French Development Agency for Jodhpur
water supply project, which is estimated to cost USD
119.04 million. The project aims to augment and extend
the present system for meeting the water demand of
Jodhpur city till 2029.
*The Author is a Director of Market Intelligence in ASA & Associates
LLP,
Water in India
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