Dell to setup shop in Nagpur

TOI, November 25, 2006

Dell, the US leading computer system company, is the new entrant in the city, after Boeing and Airbus.
The company will be setting up a hardware manufacturing facility on 70 acres of land in the state government’s Multi-Modal International Hub Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN).
“Two developers, Vipul Infrastructure and Karamchand Developers, have jointly purchased land in the MIHAN project for Dell. These developers will be constructing the manufacturing facility,”said R C Sinha, MD, Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC).
The developers have purchased the land at Rs 35 lakh per acre, which takes the land cost to Rs 25 crore.
The 10,000 acres MIHAN project has 3,645 acres of land dedicated to three Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and a captive power plant. The proposed SEZ spans around 1,000 acres and has received the maximum response among other SEZs.
The IT Park includes companies such as Satyam, L&T and Infotech. Shapoorji Pallonji too have acquired around 100 acres of land in IT Park. The developer plans to bring a host of MNCs as per the list submitted to MADC.
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