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The latest Exception Report issued by the Project Monitoring Division of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation for the period June-July 2004, indicates that 41 projects i.e. 39 in Railways and 2 in Road Transport and Highways are yet to take off either due to fund constraints or sanction without basic preparatory work. These projects figure in the monitor of the Ministry among the three hundred Central Projects costing Rs.100 crore and above. The total also includes 47 mega projects, costing Rs.1000 crore and above.
The Exception Report is brought out by the Ministry every two months especially for those projects, which are showing progressive slippages in their implementation. The Report concentrates on the exceptional issues and problems responsible for continued additional delays. The Ministry has brought this to the notice of the concerned Ministries/Departments urging them to address the problems without any further delay.
Under another category, the Ministry monitors those projects which are at different stages of implementation but reporting constraints. In this, there are about 55 of them and from the same Sectors of Railways and Road Transport and Highways. Rest of the 204 Projects in 12 sectors like Atomic Energy, Petroleum, Power, Telecommunications etc., there are no constraints and hence need no remedial action.
As per this Report, out of 300 projects, 131 are delayed, 16 ahead of schedule, 66 on schedule, 67 without dates of commissioning and the remaining 20 do not have any original date of commissioning. The time over-run with respect to Projects having original date of commissioning, ranged between 1 to 168 months.
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