Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Digital India: PM Narendra Modi's plan to build I-ways meets only 12% of its 2014-15

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's yearning arrangement to construct I-approaches to digitally enable individuals is struggling, with the legislature meeting pretty much 12% of its 2014-15 focus to interface 50,000 towns through a national optic fiber arrange before the end of January.

The legislature has, be that as it may, conveyed altogether enhanced results over the force part and in the recompense of new interstate and port undertakings, which authorities ascribed to the Prime Minister's constant and thorough observing of execution on the base areas.

The BJP had guaranteed to scale up framework fabricating in its appointive fight and Modi had swore to assemble I-ways and parkways in his Independence Day address, days after he had set decently characterized focuses for services accountable for physical integration (ports, airplane terminals, tracks, streets), advanced network (telecom) and vitality (power and renewable vitality services).

Last Monday, the Prime Minister was advised by top Niti Aayog authorities on the hits and misses in the different foundation areas. This was the fifth such assessment of center part execution by the Prime Minister in eight months.

The top territories of worry that developed amid the most recent audit incorporate the 1,800-km Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, the appointing date of which has snuck past an alternate year from December 2018 to December 2019, and further defers in four open vitality activities of around 1,900 MW, including the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.

At a past audit meeting on December 19, Modi had communicated worries around 620-odd focal division ventures worth lakhs of crores of rupees running behind calendar.

"The PM had trained all services to audit these ventures and think of an activity arrangement. Bureau Secretary Ajit Seth is checking on these independently," said a senior government official.

Amid the February 9 audit meeting, the Prime Minister was educated that about 500 of those postponed undertakings have been audited, of which 278 are route ventures. The Railway Board administrator has been asked to distinguish top need tasks that can be rushed.

On the splendid side, the Prime Minister was informed that the first semi-rapid train from Delhi to Agra is prone to start before the current month's over and train administrations to Arunachal Pradesh are prepared to begin.

Key rail ventures to ship a great many huge amounts of coal from the hinterland are liable to be prepared in Odisha and Chhattisgarh by June-September 2016. Be that as it may, two comparative lines for undiscovered coal mines in Jharkhand have slipped behind timetable. Together, these rail lines are required to clear 250 million tons of coal every year.

The redevelopment of track stations and presenting open private organizations (PPPs) in operations and support of Ahmedabad, Kolkata, and Jaipur airplane terminals are additionally behind calendar according to the most recent survey. 


Idukki in Kerala has turned into the first region with gram panchayats completely connected to the national optic fiber system or NOFN, while optic fiber links have been laid in 6,000 gram panchayat (GP) ranges. A specialist advisory group has been shaped to survey the NOFN rollout methodology, as integration to 50,000 GPs in the remaining weeks of this budgetary year shows up a difficult request.

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