A
meeting was held by the Prime Minister today 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 (see Box)
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
(ii)
Ports
a)
The
two new PPP ports at Sagar (West Bengal)
and Durgarajapatnam (Andhra Pradesh) approved by Cabinet will be awarded.
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New
Low Cost Airports by AAI
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Andhra Pradesh:
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Vijayawada, Nellore,
Kurnool, Kadapa, Nizamabad, Tirupati, Anantapur & Karimnagar
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Jharkhand:
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Dhanbad, Bokaro &
Hazaribagh
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Bihar:
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Muzaffarpur, Chapra
& Sasaram
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Punjab:
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Ludhiana, Jalandhar
& Firozpur
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Uttar Pradesh:
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Agra, Allahabad,
Moradabad, Saharanpur, Meerut, Aligarh, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor & Azamgarh
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Arunachal Pradesh:
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Tezu,
Momdila & Along
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Assam:
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Silchar,
Jorhat & Tezpur
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Madhya Pradesh:
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Gwalior,
Singrauli, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Jabalpur, Sidhi & Shahdol
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Odisha:
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Brahmpur,
Raurkela & Kendujhar
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Rajasthan:
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Ajmer,
Kota, Bhilwada & Alwar
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Maharashtra:
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Kolhapur,
Nasik, Jalgaon, Solapur & Amarawati
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(i)
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.
(ii)
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.
(iii)
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.
(iv)
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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