Govt will make all efforts to push stalled projects: FM

09 Apr 2013 Evaluate

Expressing government’s commitment to remove bottlenecks hampering projects’ timely implementation, Finance Minister P Chidambaram has assured the industry that all required steps would be taken to remove the bottlenecks. Finance Minister accompanied by Banking and Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Takru met bankers and industry leaders over stalled projects.

Chidambaram said, the agenda was to identify the projects that have been stalled. We've identified 215 projects which for one reason or another are stalled. We've identified another 126 projects which are new projects, to which banks have sanctioned loans but which have not taken off.

The meeting comes on the back of a government estimate that economic growth will fall to a decade low of 5% in FY13. As many as 341 projects, including 125 new projects, are held up due to issues like land acquisition, gas or coal linkages, environmental clearances, forest clearances and in some cases the inability or the unwillingness of the bank to restructure the loans.

To remove bottlenecks hampering mega projects and worried over the growing number of stalled projects, the government had already set up a high-powered Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. This month the CCI is expected to ease stringent conditions imposed by Defence Ministry on 31 other oil and gas blocks.

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