A
meeting was held by the Prime Minister today ( June 28 , 2013 ) to finalise
infrastructure targets for 2013-14. The meeting was attended by the Finance
Minister, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission and Ministers and Secretaries of
key infrastructure Ministries, i.e., Power, Coal, Railways, Roads, Shipping and
Civil Aviation.
The
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission made a presentation bringing out the
performance of the six infrastructure ministries in achieving their targets in
2012-13 and the details of the targets that have been set for this year, i.e.,
2013-14. These targets were set through a detailed process, first in the
Planning Commission by Member (Infrastructure) and later revised through a
second round of meetings in PMO.
The
sectoral highlights of the Prime Minister's review and the targets for 2013-14
are:
(i) Civil Aviation
a)
Two new International Airports at Bhubaneswar and Imphal.
b)
50 new Low
Cost Small Airports will be taken up by Airports Authority of India.
c)
8 Greenfield
Airports are to be awarded this year in PPP
mode: Navi Mumbai, Juhu (Mumbai), Goa, Kannur, Pune (Rajguru Nagar Chakan), Sriperumbudur, Bellary and Raigarh.
d)
Airport operations
and maintenance through PPP contracts will
be introduced in AAI airports. Airports being considered are Chennai, Kolkata,
Lucknow, Guwahati, Jaipur and Ahmedabad.
New Low Cost Airports by AAI
Andhra
Pradesh: Vijayawada, Nellore, Kurnool, Kadapa, Nizamabad, Tirupati, Anantapur
& Karimnagar
Jharkhand:
Dhanbad, Bokaro & Hazaribagh
Bihar:
Muzaffarpur, Chapra & Sasaram
Punjab:
Ludhiana, Jalandhar & Firozpur
Uttar
Pradesh: Agra, Allahabad, Moradabad, Saharanpur, Meerut, Aligarh,
Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor & Azamgarh
Arunachal
Pradesh: Tezu, Momdila & Along
Assam:
Silchar, Jorhat & Tezpur
Madhya
Pradesh: Gwalior, Singrauli, Burhanpur,Khandwa, Jabalpur, Sidhi & Shahdol
Odisha:
Brahmpur, Raurkela & Kendujhar
Rajasthan:
Ajmer, Kota, Bhilwada & Alwar
Maharashtra:
Kolhapur, Nasik, Jalgaon, Solapur & Amarawati.
(ii) Ports
a)
The two new PPP ports at Sagar (West Bengal)
and Durgarajapatnam
(Andhra Pradesh) approved by Cabinet will be awarded.
(iii) Railways
a)
An Inter-Ministerial Group of Railways, Finance and Planning will be formed
with the task of coming up with a creative financing-cum-implementation
mechanism in two months for clearing the large backlog of sanctioned projects
of over Rs 200,000 crores in a prioritized and time-bound manner.
b)
The proposal for creating a Rail Tariff Authority will be accelerated and brought to Cabinet soon.
c)
The flagship projects of railways such as the two Loco Manufacturing Projects, Elevated Rail
Corridor, the Dedicated Freight Corridor and Station
Redevelopment will be closely monitored for award
in the next six months.
(iv) Roads
a)
The slowdown in the award of road projects should get reversed in view of the
large number of relaxations that have already been provided to PPP road
projects.
b)
Expressways will get focused attention and the Planning Commission will work with the
Ministry of Road Transport & Highways to suggest an implementation
mechanism for expressways.
(v) Power
a)
The Ministry will work with Planning Commission and Finance Ministry to resolve
remaining issues in the power sector and improve generation and transmission
capacity.
b)
Ministry of Power is working on a separate provision to operationalise open
access.
(vi) Coal
a)
New policies for ramping up coal production will be put in place.
In
addition to the targets, the Prime Minister highlighted the need to ramp up
investment in infrastructure to revive investor sentiment. For this purpose, a
target of rolling out PPP projects of at least Rs 1 lakh crores in the next six
months was set. A steering group is being formed to monitor the award and
implementation of projects from among the following on priority:
1)
Mumbai Elevated Rail Corridor- Rs. 30,000 crore
2)
Two Locomotive projects- Rs. 5,000 crore
3)
Accelerating E-DFC- Rs. 10,000 crore
4)
One of the two port projects- Rs. 10,000 crore
5)
Two airport projects- Rs. 20,000 crore
6)
Power & Transmission projects- Rs. 40,000 crore
Total-
Rs. 1,15,000 crore
The
Prime Minister concluded by reiterating that a lot of work still needs to be
done and there should be no slackening of the pace of work.
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