In order to provide adequate capital for the road projects, the parliamentary panel has asked the road transport ministry to seek enhancement of gross budgetary support in mid-term review of 12th Plan as a cut in allocation will hit projects. The road ministry has projected requirement of Rs 2,64,080 crore for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), while the total gross budgetary support (GBS) outlay provided to the sector for the period stood at around Rs 1,44,769 crore.
The panel was of the view that inadequate fund allocation will certainly deter the Ministry in taking up the new projects/schemes envisaged for the 12th plan period. On the other hand, the road ministry is expected to drop major road projects like connectivity to 50 minor ports, connectivity to 24 airports owing to the reduction in allocation. Further, the ministry also objected to only Rs 6,400 crore allotments for works of National Highways (NH) against a requirement of Rs 37,540 crore for the 12th Plan period, considering the length of roads taken up for improvement under the scheme.
This reduced allocation for national highway will affect the plan adversely and ultimately result in diversion of cess towards development of non-NHDP projects from National Highways Development Project (NHDP). Expressing concern over this, the panel said that such diversions of cess meant for NHDP projects has been taking place for the last three years which is alarming. Therefore it asked the ministry to take up the enhancements of GBS, so that new road projects and schemes apart from ongoing ones do not suffer.
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