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Satyam Infoway to invest Rs 30 cr to set up country's first Net host centre UNITED NEWS OF INDIA Bangalore, March 20: Satyam Infoway Ltd , a Hyderabad based Internet service provider (ISP) will be setting up their first Indian Internet host centre at a cost of Rs 30 crores at Whitefield here.Satyam Infoway is one of the five software related product companies, besides nine other projects which were cleared attracting a total investment of Rs 316.12 crores by the Karnataka single window agency - Karnataka Udyog Mitra here on Monday. Briefing newsmen on the projects cleared state industry commissioner V Baligar said the state had received a record investment proposal of Rs 2,083.57 crores ($435 mln) during the current financial year surpassing the earlier years approval of Rs 1,862.26 crores. He said Microland Ltd , another infotech company, (Rs 43.45 crores), Philips Software Centre for embedded software (Rs 18 crores), EBS Infotech Ltd (Rs 4.71 crores) and Complete Multimedia Solutions Ltd (Rs 2 crores) were the other software projects cleared. The US-based General Electric (GE) group to establish an Asian gateway has so far invested in Karnataka Rs 310 crores with the clearing of their medical equipment manufacturing project - GE Medical Systems, X-ray (South Asia) Ltd - on Monday, to be set up at a cost of Rs 10 crores at Whitefiled.Onco Lab Pvt Ltd will set up an anti-caner drug (herbal) manufucturing unit at a cost of Rs 3.50 crores. Three sugar mills, one with a co-generation power plant at Bijapur were also cleared with a total investment of Rs 195.03 crores. One of the mills - Malnad Sugar Co Ltd belongs to former union civil aviation minister C M Ibrahim would be set up at Shimoga to produce 2500 TCD of white crystal sugar. -Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.