NEW DELHI: While the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh begins his Srinagar visit on Monday, the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) submitted to him an unflattering report on the progress of a Rs 240 billion reconstruction plan the PM announced six years ago to fast-track development in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK).
The report on gross delays on part of the state government in implementing projects under the PM's plan has been prepared by the Delivery Monitoring Unit (DMU).
The unit was set up in the PMO under the PM's Principal Secretary TKA Nair to keep track of the United Progressive Alliance government's flagship programmes.
Completion: The report said that only half of the 67 projects that Singh sanctioned during his two-day trip to Srinagar in November 2004 have so far been completed.
These include the expansion of the economic infrastructure to provide basic services and enhance local employment opportunities for victims of militancy and families uprooted from the Kashmir valley.
Singh's reconstruction plan included a project to bring electricity to all villages in IHK by March 2010, but the state government now says it will only be completed by March 2012.
The DMU report said only 40 percent work had been done until now on the project, for which an agreement was signed between the IHK government and the National Hydro Power Corporation back in 2005.
"The state government has noted the concern of the ministry of power regarding slow progress, security and non- availability of manpower," the report said.
The PM's plan included upgradation of the Jammu Medical College to All India Institute of Medical Sciences. The DMU report added that progress on this was so slow that it could not meet the target date.
The Indian government had deposited Rs 27.6 million in 2006-07 for land acquisition required for the Uri-Salamabad-Kamanpost road project, but the land was yet to be handed over to the Border Road Organisation, which was to construct the road up to the Line of Control.
"There is no progress since last review dated May 31, 2009. The chief secretary has agreed to review all land acquisition cases. No progress report has been received by the state government," the DMU said.
It also lamented that another road project for providing access to Swalkot was sanctioned at an estimated cost of Rs 1.19 billion, but there was hardly any progress on the project.
Also, the power transmission and distribution network involving 67 schemes (32 grid stations and 35 transmission lines) was facing similar slow progress, the report added.
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Sunday, June 6, 2010
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