NEW DELHI: The DoNER ministry on Friday decided to start 200 projects worth about Rs 3,000 crore for the region.
This was decided during a review meeting held by the DoNER Minister Jitendra Singh with senior officers of the ministry, North Eastern Council and others.
Briefing the minister on the implementation status of the action plan, the DoNER secretary Inder Jit Singh informed that 49 projects worth Rs 1231.94 crore have been done so far by the ministry.
These include sanction of eight new projects for Rs 586.3 crore under North East Road Sector Development Scheme (NERSDS) and North East Special Infrastructure Development Schemes (NESIDS).
Setting up of a Bamboo Industrial Park at Manderdisa in Dima Hasao district of Assam in an area of 75 hectares at a cost of Rs 50 crore, has also been decided.
During the meeting, the DoNER Minister was briefed about the implementation status of different schemes in North East region, including their allocations, projects sanctioned/retained, balance allocations and others.
The minister was also briefed about the progress report of 100 days’ action plan for DoNER ministry.
Meghalaya projects
The DoNER secretary said that two items of DoNER have been included in the 100 days’ plan of action of the government. They are construction of Mukroh Umspar linking Jrikyndeng road (15.517 km) in Meghalaya for Rs 58.01 crore, (Meghalaya-Assam Inter-state road; Meghalaya 13.397 kms and Assam 2.120 kms), Lakhipur Abhirampara connecting Agua Medhipara Phulbari Tura Road at 19th km (West Garo Hills) (12.565 km) for Rs 46.14 crore (Meghalaya-Assam Inter-state road; Meghalaya 0.765 kms and Assam 11.80 kms).
The minister instructed the officials to follow up the progress being made on various other ongoing projects which include hostel for North Eastern students in JNU, among others.
Secretary, NEC Ram Muivah, MD NERAMAC Pankaj Prasad, MD CBTC Shailendra Chaudhari and other senior officers were also present during the meeting.
