Govt plans to set up panel to monitor execution of expressway projects

18 Sep 2013 Evaluate

In order to track the execution of expressway projects, the government plans to set up a panel comprising senior officials from the highways ministry, department of expenditure and the Planning Commission. The panel will hold periodic meetings to review the progress being made in implementing the expressway projects by the vertical set up under the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) last month and the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) will review their observations. 

A project review earlier this month, which found highways authority's blueprints and groundwork for three expressway projects put on the fast track by the PMO in July lacking in multiple aspects. The projects review revealed that the NHAI is yet to resolve technical and other parameters in the Supreme Court-mandated Eastern Peripheral Expressway and the Delhi-Meerut and Mumbai Vadodara expressways. Referring to 135-km Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE), the review said that the earthwork required to build the highway may not even be available in the vicinity and will now be necessary to re-examine the design and its cost implications. Further, it added that changes would also be required in project of 125-km Delhi-Meerut expressway and there is need to send a modified proposal to the Public Private Partnership Appraisal Committee.

The government has identified the development of infrastructure as a most crucial to boost the economy’s growth. For the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17), the government has set the $1-trillion investment target for the infrastructure sector and has entered into the 'Public Private Partnership (PPP)' programme in order to bring in adequate resources for setting up of a sound and efficient infrastructural base.

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