Union Minister for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday announced to construct Metrino Personal Rapid Transit System (MPRTS) in Gurgaon from Delhi-Haryana border to Rajiv Chowk and Sohna road (Badshahpur Chowk) as a pilot project.
The Detailed Project Report (DPR) of this project has been prepared at a cost of Rs980 crore. This project would be like an airborne personal rapid transit system, said Gadkari while addressing the ‘Happening Haryana Global Investors’ Summit 2016 in Gurgaon.
The Union Minister made several announcements at the summit for Haryana. He announced a road from Dwarka in Delhi to Khedkidola in Gurgaon as national highway.
The Union Minister said that nine national highways costing Rs8,000 crore have already been announced for the state. He also announced that Haryana would have its first water way from Palla in district Sonepat to Wazirabad in Delhi.
Gadkari said that the work on Delhi-Jaipur Expressway would be started by the end of this year and it would cost
Rs18,000 crore. This expressway would pass through Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan. The total length of this project in Haryana is about 70 kilometers.
He said that Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway would be constructed and this 45,000 crore expressway would pass through the states of Delhi-Haryana-Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. The length of the project in Haryana is about 170 kilometers and it would considerably reduce the travelling time, he added.
The Union Minister announced to construct bypass of Gurgaon linking national highway-236 (Mehrauli-Gurgaon) with NH-8 and link between NH-8 (near Ambiance Mall) and NH-236 (Mehrauli-Gurgaon road). The construction of this bypass and link would decongest NH-8 and Gurgaon city. Apart from this, he announced that a sum of Rs160 crore would be spent on the improvement of junction near the Ambiance Mall in Gurgaon.
Gadkari also announced that Rs285.57 crores would be spent on the improvement of junction at Rajiv Chowk, Gurgaon on Delhi Gurgaon Expressway, Rs263.41 crores on the improvement of junction at Signature Chowk in Gurgaon and Rs386.34 crores for improvement of junction at IFFCO chowk.
He said that the westerly bypass of Kundali-Manesar-Palwal Expressway (KMP), would be completed within 343 days which will greatly reduce the traffic and pollution of Delhi.
Textile Park to come up in Haryana
Union Minister of State for Textiles, Santosh Kumar Gangwar has announced that a Textile Park would be set up in Haryana at a cost of Rs181 crore to promote textiles industry.
The Central Government would give a subsidy of Rs40 crore to set up this park. Also, Rs14 crore Incubation Centre would be set up in Haryana for skill development of the youth associated with textile sector, said he speaking at the summit.
PPP framework needs to be reoriented: Goyal
Calling for an overhaul of the country’s public-private partnership (PPP) model to make it more investor-friendly, Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal said that any penalty levied for delay in projects coming up in the PPP mode should not just be restricted to the private party.
“Any framework we create should provide penalty for the private sector and the other side. One must not forget to address the delays in providing utilities which are necessary for the success of any project,” Goyal said while addressing the ‘Happening Haryana Global Investors Summit’.
“If India has to develop at the kind of pace that we all wanted to and provide bare necessities to its people by 2022, then clearly the PPP model is unavoidable. It will be the engine of growth in infrastructure sector and together we will have to evolve the right regulatory framework which should be simple and predictable,” he said.
Patanjali to invest Rs5,000 crore
Yog Guru Ramdev announced to make investment worth Rs5,000 crore in Haryana. While speaking at the Summit, he said, “In Haryana, we will set up a global university and an international health centre. Our minimum investment here will be Rs5,000 crore.”
“We want to announce that we will invest Rs5,000 crore in setting up of the international health centre. An MoU worth Rs5,000 crore has been signed between Patanjali Ayurvedic limited and the Haryana Government for investment in health and education industries”, added he, while complimenting the Haryana Government for this unprecedented initiative.
In the next 5-10 years, Patanjali will be the biggest brand globally in the FMCG sector and health products, said Ramdev.
Haryana Govt. to spend Rs1,540 crore on waste management system
Haryana Government would spend Rs1,540 crores on waste management system under Integrated Solid Waste Management in all 79 Urban local Bodies, said Haryana Urban local Bodies Minister Kavita Jain.
Speaking at the investors summit, she said that 6600 tons of waste would be treated everyday by 2031. Besides, the Central Government has approved the State Annual Action Plan under AMRUT costing Rs4,745 crore for 20 towns for a mission period up to 2020-21.