The Cabinet Committee Investment (CCI) Project Monitoring Group led by Cabinet Secretariat Joint Secretary Dr VP Roy reviewed the progress of the ongoing mega projects at a high-level meeting held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary GC Pati on Tuesday.
Principal Secretary in charge of Project Coordination Cell Pradeep Jena presented the updates and outlined the issues for discussion. A total number of 32 projects in railway, national highway, steel and mines and power sector were reviewed.
Reviewing the progress, Chief Secretary Pati set milestones and time limits against each project.The review showed that the issues relating to land acquisition and forest diversion proposals have made significant progress in many projects.
It was decided that the miscreants creating bottlenecks on the way of implementation would be dealt under criminal laws. Pati directed the project developers to videograph all such activities. It was decided that steps would be initiated to include Angul-Sambalpur toll road in high way corridor project and develop it to four lanes.
It may be pertinent to mention here that e-PMS an online project monitoring system has been put in place by the Cabinet Secretariat to monitor the projects involving investment between Rs100 crore and Rs1,000 crore. The system tracks all stalled and ongoing investment projects in the context of the bottlenecks.
The major projects in the review included Jharsuguda- Rengali railway doubling, Talcher-Bimlagarh new railway line, Angul-Sukinda new rail line project, Chandikhol-Duburi-Talcher section of national high way, Bhubaneswar-Puri N.H., Angul-Sambalpur toll road project, Cuttack-Angul toll road project,
Biramitrapur-Barkot high way, Panikoili- Rimuli high way, IOCl project for lPG pipeline from Paradeep-Durgapur, IOCl pipe line project from Paradip to Ranchi, Alumina refinery of Nalco at Damanjodi, Jharsuguda-Dharamjayagarh 756KV D/C transmission line, Angul-Jharsuguda 756-KV D/C line, Srikakulam pooling station-Angul 756-KV transmission line, Visa thermal power project, Sahara India Power Corporation thermal power plant in Balangir district, PKTCl-Purtia Kharagpur transmission line, Monet Power, Tentulei Thermal Power project of NSl, lanco Babandh Power limited, Odisha Ultra Mega Power Project and KVK Nilachal Power.
