The Narendra Modi government has finally given green signal to seven big-ticket investment projects worth Rs 21,000 crore, out of which some of them have been held back for over a decade on account of issues ranging from environmental issues to financing problems.
The oldest among them, which has been delayed for over 30 years, is a 235 kilometre railway line, essential for tapping Chhattisgarh's second largest iron ore reserves and ensuring the survival of the Bhilai Steel Plant whose current iron ore sources are expected to run out in a few years.
Apart from this railway line, red-tape problems plaguing a major hydro-electricity project in Sikkim that has been in the works since 2005, a 120-kilometre six-lane highway in Karnataka, a four million tonne iron ore processing plant being set up by state-run NMDC in Chhattisgarh and three major power projects that could raise India's electricity generation capacity by over 3,500 MW, have also been resolved.
The finance ministry helped resolve financing issues facing three power projects, including the hydropower project in Sikkim that is 94% complete and was to be commissioned by this December. Meanwhile, financial problems facing Rs 5,600-crore 1,050 MW power project in Odisha, being developed by KVK Nilachal Power and Rs 9,000 crore power project in Chhattisgarh developed by RKM Powergen to generate 1,440 MW of power, too were fixed.
While the Cabinet Committee on Investments and the project monitoring group in the cabinet secretariat merely facilitated clearances, Modi led government, besides clearing the way for these big tickets investment, assured to check the progress of these projects in order to ensure that approvals translate into actual production activity on the ground and help revive the economy.
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