To review Asian Development Bank funded projects, ADB Country head M Teresa Kho convened a meeting with Government officers in the Secretariat on Friday. Currently, ADB projects worth $940 million are being executed in the State. During the review meeting, the ADB has expressed their satisfaction over the $940 million projects going on in the State. Roads, urban development, power, tourism and disaster related projects were separately reviewed.
Discussions were held with the officials on the implementation of the projects. Commenting on the projects by PWD, the ADB said that the work of Tranch-03 is being held in a satisfactory manner, while there is a need of speeding up the pace of work in Tranch 02. Talks were also held on signing the satisfaction letter of Tranch 04.Speaking about the power department, ADB said that fund will be given for reconstruction of projects damaged during the disaster. ADB added that there is a need for accelerating the pace of work in Dehradun, while elsewhere work is being undertaken at the right speed.
ADB has suggested the State to strengthen the Program Implementation Unit as well as Program Management Unit. They added that Project directors should not be transferred too frequently.During meeting Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar, Additional Chief secretary Rakesh Sharma, Principal secretary PWD SS Sandh, Secretary Disaster Management Bhaskaranand, Secretary Tourism Dr Umakant Panwar, Secretary Urban development DS Gabryal, Secretary PWD Amit Negi, Additional Secretary and project manager Sachin Kurwe, Dileep Jawalkar, Rajesh Kumar and Deepak Rawat were present from state governent side.
While ADB mission team were comprised of lM Sondjaja, Hiroki Kobayasi, Anil Molwani, Ron Siyanjen, Ashok Srivastav and Saigla Das Gupta.