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CS To Head Panel To Monitor Infrastructure ProjectsBy akansha, Section Infrastructure
Accentuating its strong commitment to improve infrastructure for economic, industrial and social development in the state, in a significant move government of Uttar Pradesh has put in place a high-level body to accelerate the implementation of infrastructure development projects on priority basis.
An eight member infrastructure monitoring committee has been formed under the chairmanship of chief secretary to keep a watch on the progress of infrastructure development projects all over the state. With infrastructure and industrial development commissioner (IIDC) and principal secretaries of different departments as its members, this top-level panel will meet on a monthly basis not only to review implementation of infrastructure projects but also to mitigate the bottlenecks by synchronising the functions of various agencies involved in the execution. It is noteworthy, that in UP, numerous projects have been identified in different sectors like metro-rail, over-bridges, road, aviation, power, transport, health, education, tourism and urban rejuvenation and are at different stages of implementation. Main projects under public private partnership, where developer has already been selected and work is in progress, are 165 km long Yamuna Expressway between Greater Noida and Agra; Ganga Expressway, the 8-lane mega project linking Ballia in far east to Greater Noida near Delhi traversing 1047 km; big power projects like Bara (1980 Mw capacity) and Karchana (1320 Mw capacity) near Allahabad and input based franchisee power distribution system in Kanpur and Agra. While many infrastructural facilities are in the pipeline to be developed either by government development authorities and corporations or on public private partnership. A few are into the bidding process, while consultants have been selected for others. Also, from now onwards, the progress of infrastructure projects pertaining to various departments will be directly scrutinised by infrastructure and industrial development department. For this purpose, principal secretaries of the departments concerned will be accountable to infrastructure and industrial development department and will work under its guidance for the implementation of infrastructure projects relating to their respective departments. Source: Times Of India CS to head panel to monitor infrastructure projects Click On "Full Story" For More...
Infrastructure and industrial development commissioner has been authorised to take all steps for monitoring and ensuring the time-bound implementation of projects in public sector, private sector as well as various mega infrastructure projects which are being developed on public private partnership basis.
Under the strengthened implementation mechanism, Udyog Bandhu, the state-level infrastructure and industrial facilitation agency, will define the milestones and the corresponding timeframes in respect of all infrastructure projects. The progress and status of these projects will be reviewed on the basis of these milestones to ensure time-bound and vigorous implementation.
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