An important meeting held on Friday of project monitoring group (PMG) of Cabinet committee on investment (CCI) attended among others by the Chief Secretary Shatrughan Singh and Prime Minister Office (PMO)’s additional secretary Arun Goyal and Director Somdutt Sharma, revealed that one hectare land under UP irrigation department is yet to be transferred to National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) in Mayapur, Haridwar. The matter of the widening work of Muzaffarnagar-Haridwar National Highway also figured in the meeting. CS Singh requested UP Chief Secretary for early disposal of the land transfer issue.
Besides, Tehri Pump Storage Plant was empowered to dispose of the mining materialss from Asena village and also to address rehabilitation- related grievances through mutual understanding. It is also learnt that for dumping 4.668 acres land transferred in Chopra village as part of first phase, 9.3 hectare land is yet to be declared as reserve forest. Tehri DM disclosed that they have identified the land and will do mutation of the land shortly.
As far as lata-Tapovan hydro power project is concerned Uttarakhand has appealed for the reduction of the boundary of eco- sensitive zone of Nanda Devi National Park to 10 kms.
CS said that to clear things, they do not need to take clearance from National Wildlife Board. Uttarkhand has produced zonal master plan of eco sensitive zone, he said. lata-Tapovan hydro project worth of Rs 1527 crore and Tapovan-Vishnugad minor hydro power project worth of Rs 3846 crore are grappling with several crisis which need to be promptly addressed, he added.
For the availability of gas for BETA infratech private limited project worth of Rs 1540 crore, the State government would give PPA, CS said, adding that Char Dham road connectivity (889 km) works are being executed on war- footing.
He further said that 483 out of 860 kms of land have been acquired. For the remaining, acquisition procedure is in progress. Besides, 250 km long forest land has been transferred and approval of 175 km land has been received so far. Stretch of 362 km land has been jointly inspected. This aside, electricity department and Jal Sansthan’s 22 out 24 utility shiftings have been made, CS said.
For Raipur Assembly constituency, forest and environment ministries have approved 59.9 hectare land transfer. “ We have fulfilled 21 conditions imposed by the ministry,” he said.
Talking about the digitisation of state level clearance and registration, he said that 25 out of 63 services have been digitized so far and hyper linked with Union government’s portal. The remaining services are being digitised, he said.
Additional principal secretary Ranbir Singh, principal secretary Radha Raturi, Umakant Panwar, secretaries MC Joshi, CS Napalchayal and Deepak Kumar, Secretary in-charge AS Hyanki, additional secretaries Meenakshi Joshi and Manoj Chandran, DM Tehri Jyoti Neeraj Khairwal and member of pollution control board Vinod Kumar also attended the meeting.