The State Project Implementation Committee on Friday decided to recommend for inclusion of the next phase expansion work of the Rengali irrigation project in the Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sichayee Yojana (PMKSY) and to complete the Haridaspur-Kendrapada railway project by March 2018.
The committee met under chairmanship of Chief Secretary AP Padhi reviewed progress of 33 mega investment projects in two sessions through the day.
It was revealed that land acquisition and eviction of encroachments for road and railway projects have almost been complete. Besides, issues like land transfer, development of rehabilitation colonies, environment and forest clearances for projects, technical steps for controlling pollution and water supply were discussed in detail.
The projects reviewed include 17 of road and railway projects and 16 projects relating to coalmines, power plant, fertiliser industry and irriagion were reviewed. Among them, the Rs 1,100-crore Sambalpur-Bamur railway project(85 km), the Rs 1,000-crore Haridaspur-Paradip railway project (80 km), Rs 811-crore Talcher-Bimalagarh railway project (154 km) and Rs 638-crore Angul-Sukinda railway project (98.7 km) were reviewed.
Similarly, Baleswar-Jharapokharia (NH 5) four laning and Chandikhole-Jagatpur-Bhubaneswar (NH 5) six laning were reviewed among road projects.
Chief Secretary Padhi emphasised on timely completion of all the projects.
Development Commissioner R Balkrishnan, State Project Management Cell Principal Secrtary Pradeep Kumar Jena, Prime Minister Office Joint Secretary Shubha Kumari, Director SD Sharma were present.