Ventures worth up to Rs 1K cr can be monitored
The State’s Project Monitoring Group (PMG) of the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) on Friday launched an online system called e-PMS to fast-track industrial and infrastructural projects involving investments between Rs 100 crore and Rs 1,000 crore.
Chief Secretary Jugal Kishore Mohapatra launched the system at the State Secretariat. Explaining the objective and utility of the system, Additional Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat Anil Swarup said, “The system will automate the entire tracking of all stalled and ongoing investment projects with investment range between Rs 100 and Rs 1,000 crore,”
He said the system will automate the tracking of all stalled and ongoing investment projects in the context of the bottlenecks.The system also provides assistance in preparation of various graphical reports and tracking of the actual investment in case of the resolved projects.
It has been made investor friendly and will automatically eliminate duplicate as well as inconsistent records, Swarup said. launching the system the Chief Secretary said it would raise and revive investor’s confidence. Investors can raise their issues through this platform and get immediate response on resolution of their problems.
Progress of 41 railway, National Highway, coal, power and steel projects, were reviewed in the meeting and necessary decisions taken for quick resolution of the issues.
The major projects reviewed included Haridaspur- Paradeep rail link, four laning of Sambalpur-Bargarh Odisha-Chhatisgarah border NH-6, Cuttack-Angul Toll way, IOCl Paradip- Haladia-Barauni pipe line, OPGC coalmine project, Essar Steel limited, JSPl Angul steel project and POSCO project at Paradip.
The Cabinet Secretary said the matter of land acquisition has been taken forward very satisfactorily. He said the implementing agency of Angul-Sukinda railway project mentioned that 75 per cent of the land handed over to the company had been acquired within a very short period.
Swarup asked the departments concerned to make use of the e-PMS and post their issues regularly with updates.He also said a team of experts would soon visit the State to familiarise the user departments with the new online management system.
Issues relating to forest clearance, environmental clearance, DGPS survey, land diversion, land acquisition, water allocation, power connectivity, FRA certificate, and raw material linkage were also discussed.