New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday directing the National Highway Authority (NHAI) to complete the second phase of Urban Extension (UER-II) in Delhi on August 15, 2023, which comes as the third ring road.
Marking the problem of the delay in the completion of the main infrastructure project, he also directed the Cabinet Secretary to prepare the “documents” of the works within one week and identified officers and institutions responsible for the delay, said government officials.
PM chaired the 37th Processing Meeting, ICT-based platform for the implementation of a timely project with the Secretary in the Central Government and the Head of the Secretary of State.
According to Nhai, the NH 75.71 Km project will make a smooth trip from Dwarka in Delhi to Highway Delhi-Chandigarh.
Last week, the Delhi government has approved transplants and logging trees for the project.
NHAI has given the five project packages and work it will likely start at the end of September.
The source said PM referred to documents after reviewing two train projects – a new railway line that connects Bhanupuli, Bilaspur and Bari and Dedicated Western Transportation Corridor (WDFC) – in the 37th edition of Pragati.
The work on the new railway line began in 2008 with an estimated cost around Rs 2,000 Crore.
Previously, this project appeared to be reviewed in 2016.
Now the cost increases to around Rs 6,000 Crore.
Similarly, the leading project WDFC government has also been postponed.
On the previous occasion, Modi has requested the government department to improve the responsibility for delays in implementing projects that not only produce time overrun but also escalation in project costs.
“The message is for each central and state government department which will now be responsible for the delay.
PM emphasizes the document twice,” said a source.
The release issued by PMO said, “Prime Minister emphasized the significance of the completion of these projects.” The source said PM also urged the Secretary of the Head of State to accelerate the resolution of oxygen plants in the hospital and also aim to have an oxygen supply connection provided to each bed.
He asked them to monitor the availability of hospital beds.
PMO, in his statement, said that when reviewing the Scheme ‘One Country – One Ration’ (Onorc) scheme, he asked state government officials to explore various technology platform utilities developed under the scheme to ensure broad provisions.
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