The Cabinet Committee Investment (CCI) Project Monitoring Group led by Additional Secretary Project Monitoring Group (PMG) Prime Ministers’ Office Arun Goel reviewed the progress of the ongoing mega projects in a high level meeting held under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi at the Secretariat on Thursday.
Principal Secretary PPP and State PMG Pradeep Kumar Jena presented the projects and outlined the issues for discussion. A total number of 44 projects of railway, national highway, coal, steel and mines and power sector were reviewed in two sessions.
Replying to a media query, Padhi said that the joint exercise was very fruitful and there had been substantial progress in grounding of the projects.
Padhi further added that the ground level problems faced in one sector differed from the other. The progress and problems of each individual project was discussed and issues were resolved.
In a similar query, Additional Secretary Goel said the State administration had been quite prompt and proactive in implementation of the CCI projects. The Collectors were available over video conference in the meeting. Decisions about many ground level problems were discussed and real solutions were arrived at.
Goel also asked the project developers to upload specific problems that they encountered in implementation of the projects on CCI PMG website.
Available data show that almost all the major problems raised by the project proponents of around 12 projects were resolved. Some such important projects were lingaraj mines, Nuapada-Bangamunda National High way project, Jharsuguda-Barpali-Serdega rail line project, Garjanbahal coal mine, OPGCl projects, Visa Power ltd, KVK Nilachal ltd. NSl Power ltd and Ultra mega power project etc. The concerned agencies were asked to carry on the ground level activities with definite time limits. The meeting reviewed the progress of six projects in railway sector, nine in national high way, two in petroleum and natural gas sector, one in mining sector, 16 in coal sector and nine in power sector. The Chief Secretary set timelines and landmarks for completion of different tasks against each project.
It may be pertinent to mention here that e-PMS, an online project monitoring system, has been put in place by the Centre to monitor the projects involving investment between Rs100 crore to Rs 1,000 crore.
The system tracks and facilitates grounding of all investment projects. The system includes facilities for online submission of projects, editing and updating of the projects, reviewing the projects and submission of details relating to bottlenecks.