The
Ministry Road Transport and Highways has formulated the Special Accelerated Road
Development Programme for North East (SARDP-NE) for the development/improvement
of 10141km length of roads in the North-Eastern States of the Country. The programme has been divided into three parts, Phase
‘A’ covering 4099km, Arunachal Pradesh Package for Roads and Highways (APPRH)
covering 2319km and Phase ‘B’ covering 3723km. The Government has so far
approved implementation of 3325km under Phase ‘A’ and 2319km under APPRH and
balance length of 774km under Phase ‘A’ has been approved in-principle. Phase
‘B’ of SARDP-NE has been approved for DPR preparation only. Roads included under Phase ‘A’ are
targeted for completion by March 2014 and roads under APPRH are targeted for
completion by March. 2015. Allocation of funds is made for the entire programme
and not State wise. The allocation made during last
three years and the current year is as indicated below:-
|
Year
|
Amount (Rs. crore)
|
|
2009-10
|
1200
|
|
2010-11
|
1500
|
|
2011-12
|
1950
|
|
2012-13
|
2000
|
A
road length of 919 kms out of 3733km sanctioned by
this Ministry, has been so far been completed under SARDP-NE. The slow progress
of works under this programme has been mainly due to the delay in land
acquisition, shifting of utilities and forest clearances by the concerned State
Government Departments. Due to the delay in Regular
reviews of the projects are being taken up at various levels in the government
to review the progress of project and to resolve the issues of implementation.
In addition, the Ministry has recently set up three Project Implementation Unit
(PIUs) headed by a Chief Engineer in the North Eastern Region in order to
expedite the implementation of the programme. All
roads under the programme are targeted for completion
by March 2017.
This was stated by Shri Sarvey Sathyanarayana, the Minister
of State in the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in response to a
written question in Lok Sabha yesterday.
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