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40 Infrastructure Projects including major and mega ones are under implementation for more than 10 years. These are, one each in Atomic Energy and Telecom, 3 each in Coal, Health and Family Welfare, 4 in Power and 28 in the Railways Sector. This is disclosed in the Status Report on implementation of Central Sector Projects costing Rs.20 crore and above. The Status Report refers to the period October-December 2004.
The Infrastructure and Project Monitoring Division, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, which compiled the Report, states that of the 40 much delayed projects, Railways top the list but the delay is due to a variety of reasons including land acquisition, litigation, contractor-cum-labour problems and fund constraints etc.
The one project belonging the Atomic Energy Sector, is some units of the Tarapur Atomic Power Station of the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. This project originally approved at a cost of about Rs.3450 crore, now anticipated to cost Rs.6525 crore with the latest date of commissioning being January 2007. The only Telecom Project under the much delayed bracket is the CAMP.CONS Project of C-DOT originally to cost Rs.80 crore. The Project is now anticipated to cost nearly Rs.97 crore with the latest date of commissioning being March 2006.
The three Coal projects delayed beyond ten years are Pootkee-Balihari of Bharat Coaking Coal Ltd., J.P.Rly Line of Central Coalfields Ltd. and J.K.Nagar Project of the Eastern Coalfields Ltd. The currently anticipated cost in these Projects is much below the originally estimated, but their anticipated date of commissioning has been put off beyond 2006. The delayed projects in the Health Sector are NEIG Institute, Biologicals N.Institute and Institute of Medical Sciences, in which cases the present anticipated cost has multiplied several folds than originally conceived and their latest date of commissioning also further delayed.
The over delayed Power Projects are; Dulhasti Hydro Electric Project, Dhauliganga Hydro Power Project, Tehri Dam, Hydro Power Project and the Tehri Dam Transmission System Project. All the four have now been delayed beyond the last anticipated date of commissioning and the latest anticipated cost had more than doubled in two cases, nearly three times in one case and over twenty times in the case of the Dulhasti Project of the National Hydro Power Corporation.
In the Railways Sector, 28 projects relate to Gauze Conversion, New Lines and Electrification etc. and in many cases the latest date of commissioning is unavailable with a cost over-run of above Rs.10,000 crore, against originally estimated.
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