The implementation of large investment projects in the State has been put to fast track with resolution of the impending issues and removal of the ground level bottlenecks. This was known from a review taken by Project Monitoring Group of Prime Ministers’ Office held under the Chairmanship of Chief Secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi here on Monday.
Reviewing the project wise progress, Chief Secretary Padhi directed the concerned department and project proponents to keep up constant monitoring at the execution level for completion of the projects within scheduled limits.
Joint Secretary, Prime Ministers’ Office Subha Kumari and Director, Prime Minister’s Office SD Sharma joined the meeting. Principal Secretary PPP and State PMG Pradeep Kumar
Jena outlined the issues flagged by project proponents for discussion.
later, Padhi informed, “We reviewed 28 projects. Mainly the railways, national high ways and coal mine projects were reviewed. The projects are on the time line and the issues raised by some project implanting agencies have been resolved completely”.
The major railway projects reviewed included Khordha-Bolangir new broad gauge railway with project cost of Rs 3,550 crore, doubling of Sambalpur-Bamur line with project cost of Rs 1,111 crore, Haridaspur-Paradeep new line with project cost of Rs 1,000 crore, Talcher-Bimilagarh newline with estimated cost of Rs 810.78 crore and Angul-Sukinda newline project with estimated cost of Rs 638.5 crore.
The National High way projects reviewed included 6-laning of Chandikhol-Jagatpur-Bhubaneswar section of NH-5 with estimated coast of Rs 1,047 crore, Baleswar-Jharpokharia NH with project cost of around Rs 700 crore, Teleibani-Sambalpur section of NH-6 with estimated cost of Rs 752 crore, Binhjabahal-Teleibani section of NH-6 with estimated cost of Rs 1,057 crore, Baharagora-Singara section of NH-6 with estimated cost of Rs 734 crore, 6-laning of Bhubaneswar- Chandikhol section of NH-5 with estimated cost of Rs 1,047 crore, Singara-Binjabahal section of NH-6 with estimated cost of Rs 1,082.36 crore , Biramitrapur-Barkot highway project with estimated cost of Rs 778.15 crore, Chandikhol-Duburi-Talcher NH with estimated cost of Rs 996 crore, Angul-Sambalpur Toll road project involving investment of Rs 1220 crore and Panikoili-Rimuli NH with project cost of Rs 1,410 crore.
Besides, the progress of around 11 coal and power projects including Rengali Irrigation Project was reviewed. The major projects were Rengali Irrigation Project, coal mining projects of MCl like Bhubaneswari OCP, Balaram OCP, Siarmala OCP, Samaleswari OCP, Kaniha OCP, Garjanbahal OCP, Orient UG block-1, 2, 3 and 4, OGPTl power transmission line, Darlipali STPP and lanco Babandh Power limited.
The principal issues raised by project proponents in the projects namely Samaleswari OCP, Garjanbahal OCP, Orient UG Block-1, 2 , 3 and Block-4 and Siaramala OCP were found resolved in the review.
The issues relating to rehabilitation, disbursement of compensation, shifting of utilities, compliance to forest diversion proposals, forest clearance, holding of Gram Sabha, issue of FRA certificate, tree cutting permission, DGPS survey, compensatory afforestation etc were discussed and resolved.
It may be pertinent to mention here that e-PMS, an online project monitoring system has been put in place to monitor the investment projects.