Government of India Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region ----------------- Minutes of the 53rd Meeting of the NLCPR Committee held at 12.00 Noon on 30.11.2007 under the Chairmanship of Secretary, M/o DoNER in Committee Room, Vigyan Bhavan Annexe. 1. Smt. Sushma Singh, Secretary, Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region…..In Chair. 2. Dr. Hari Krishna, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region. 3. Shri Naveen Verma, Joint Secretary (NE), Ministry of Home Affairs, North Block, New Delhi. 4. Shri R.K. Vats, Joint Secretary & FA, Ministry of DoNER and Ministry of Urban Development, Nirman Bhawan, New Delhi 5. Shri S. N. Brohmo Choudhury, Director (SP-NE), Planning Commission 6. Ms. Mithlesh, Dy. Director (PF-I), Ministry of Finance, North Block, New Delhi. 7. Shri K. Guite, Joint Director, IFD, Ministry of DoNER Ms. Jayati Chandra, Sr. Adviser (SP-NE), Planning Commission and Shri V.S. Senthil, Joint Secretary (PF-I), Ministry of Finance were granted leave of absence. Following Officers were also present as special invitees: Shri Nikhil Pandey (Director), Shri P.R. Meshram (Director), Shri B.B. Samaddar, Deputy Secretary, Shri D.P. Singh (Under Secretary) and Shri S.K. Saha (Section Officer), Ministry of DoNER. The Committee met and deliberated on the Agenda items. Following observations and recommendations were made: Item No.1: Confirmation of Minutes of 52nd Meeting of the NLCPR Committee held on 24.10.2007 and 31.10.2007. Minutes of the 52nd Meeting were confirmed. * * * Item No.2: Action taken report of decisions / recommendations made by NLCPR Committee in the 52nd Meeting held on 24.10.2007 and 31.10.2007 The Committee noted that the Minutes for 52nd Meeting have been issued on 05.11.2007 and action has been initiated by the Ministry of DoNER on the decisions/ recommendations made by the NLCPR Committee in that meeting. It was decided that the action be taken and progress reported in the next meeting. * * * * 1 Item No.3: Reconsideration of 2007-08 Priority Lists of the Stat Governments of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura and consideration of 2007-08 Priority List of Manipur. The NLCPR Committee noted that projects worth Rs. 345.34 crore have been retained from the 2007 – 08 Priority Lists of the States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura against an inernal notional allocation of Rs. 800 crore. The Priority List of Manipur could not be considered as it was received late. As per the provisional figures of accruals to the Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources from the unspent balances out of 10% mandatory budgetary provision of the non-exempted Central Government Ministries, there is a scope available for retention of some more projects. After taking into account the committed liabilities of ongoing and the retained projects and assessment of the availability of the untied funds in the Pool, the Committee decided to retain more some more projects for the 7 States, besides Manipur for which retention of projects from the Priority List 2007-08 was also considered. The Committee decided to retain projects for these States as per the details given below: Sl. State State-wise notional Actual Allocation as Amount for which No. allocation against per retained Projects proposed Rs. 800 crore projects to be retained by Committee. Rupees in Crore 1 Arunachal 115.90 115.79 116.01 Pradesh 2 Assam 274.90 289.86 259.94 3 Manipur 77.25 Priority List yet to be 154.50 considered. 4 Meghalaya 76.72 76.57 76.87 5 Mizoram 56.75 60.82 52.68 6 Nagaland 68.24 77.22 59.26 7 Sikkim 51.00 50.46 51.54 8 Tripura 79.47 80.27 78.67 Total 800.23 345.34 849.47 ******** Item No.4 (a): Reconsideration of 2007- 08 Priority List of Arunachal Pradesh for retention of more projects for detailed examination The Committee noted that the Government of Arunachal Pradesh had submitted 2007 - 08 Priority List for NLCPR containing 53 proposals with a total estimated cost of Rs. 783.52 crore of which 8 projects have already been retained with an estimated cost of Rs. 115.79 crore on the recommendations of the Committee made in the 52nd meeting held on 24.10.2007 and 31.10.2007. As per the provisional figures of accruals to the Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources from the unspent balances out of 10% mandatory budgetary provision of the non-exempted Central Government Ministries, there is a scope available for retention of some more projects. As per equitable allocation formula the share of Arunachal Pradesh for this year’s Priority List will be upto Rs. 231.80 crore against the total notional allocation of Rs. 1600.00 crore for all the 8 NE States. Therefore, it has been decided to pick up additional projects worth around Rs. 116.01 crore from the Priority List of 2007 – 08 of the State Government of Arunachal Pradesh. The Committee deliberated on the remaining projects in the Priority List, also took into account the letters written by Hon’ble Chief Minister, Arunachal Pradesh with regard to the priority list and recommended retention of the following 12 additional projects at a total estimated cost of Rs. 117.66 crore: 2 S. Project Name Retained Cost No. (Rs. in Crore) 1. Construction of Tamen-Tali road via Yirkoum (60 KM) – Phase-I 10.00 (total estimated cost Rs 30.00 Crore). 2. Construction of road from Kheti to Dadam (21 KM)- Total 11.00 estimated cost Rs.22.00 crore. 3. Construction of Satnaguri to Longding road via Kanubari, 5.00 Banfera, Wanu and Zedua (Phase-I)- total estimated cost Rs 32.27 crore. 4. Construction of Wak-Liromoba road (78 KM) – Phase-I (total 10.00 estimated cost Rs 39.00 crore). 5. Construction of road from Sangram to Phassang-Pallang via 10.00 Nyapin (SDO HQ) – Phase-I 6. Construction of Gachham-Morsing Road (27 KM) 23.00 7. Construction of Bailey suspension motorable bridge over Siyom 10.50 river to connect left bank at Paya (Span 122 mtr.) 8. Construction of Single lane bailey bridge (span 40 mtr) over 2.80 Tasing river in between Borguli village and Seram in East Siang district. 9. Construction of Steel bridge over Pakke river. 2.33 10. Construction of road from 80 KM point on Kimin – Ziro BRTF 8.03 road to Krishi Vigyan Kendra at Yachuli (5.00 KM) 11. Improvement & Extension of Dorsing, Pareng, Sine, Yibuk, 15.00 Liging road. (Phase-I)- total estimated cost Rs 30.00 crore. 12. Construction of an Auditorium at Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono 10.00 Hills, Arunachal Pradesh. Total 117.66 ***** Item No.4 (b): Reconsideration of 2007 - 08 Priority List of Assam for retention of more projects for detailed examination The Committee noted that the Government of Assam had submitted 2007 - 08 Priority List for NLCPR containing 77 proposals with a total estimated cost of Rs. 822.49 crore of which 42 projects have already been retained with an estimated cost of Rs. 289.86 crore on the recommendations of the Committee made in the 49th Meeting held on 16.07.2007. As per the provisional figures of accruals to the Non Lapsable Central Pool of Resources from the unspent balances out of 10% mandatory budgetary provision of the non-exempted Central Government Ministries, there is a scope available for retention of some more projects. Therefore, it has been decided to pick up additional projects worth around Rs. 260 crore from the Priority List of 2007 – 08 of the State Government of Assam as per equitable allocation for this year’s Priority List which will add upto Rs. 550 crore. The Committee deliberated on the remaining projects in the Priority List and recommended retention of the following eight projects at a total estimated cost of Rs. 61.62 crore: Sl. Name of the Project Estimated No cost (Rs. in crore) 1 Construction of Bus Terminus at Barpeta Town (Barpeta Dist.) 3.21 2 Construction of new Infrastructure of Govt. College of Arts & Crafts 5.00 in Kamrup Dist. (Funding through NLCPR for this project would be restricted to Administrative and Academic building, Boys’ and Girls’ Hostels, Open Air Theatre, Parking Shed and brick boundary wall 3 Sl. Name of the Project Estimated No cost (Rs. in crore) around the complex) 3 Kaziranga from Sky, Kohra Assam (Karbi Anglong) 3.52 4 Setting up of Multi – Fruit processing Plant at Silchar (Cachar Dist.) 18.10 5 Development of Water body at Kohra (Kaziranga) in Karbi Anglong 2.93 (Construction of Swimming Pool would not be funded through NLCPR, under this project. Besides, rationalization of other components should be done by the State Government) 6 Bodoland Institute of Information & Technology at Udalguri 10.00 7 Construction of 800 capacity Auditorium of Srimanta Snakaradeva 15.18 Kalashetra (Kamrup District) 8 Construction of Fly Over at the intersection of Pramathesh Barua 3.68 Road and N.F. Railway Tract at Bijni Town Total 61.62 The retention of the project at S.No. 3 is subject to the clearance from the Environment & Forest Department and at Sl. No. 6 is subject to the condition that the State Government gives firm commitment that they will bear the maintenance and operation costs including salary etc and also about the availability of free land. The Committee also recommended that the State Government may be requested to provide Priority List of projects out of which projects worth around Rs. 198 crore may be retained after scrutiny by the Ministry and the NLCPR Committee.