FREEZING OF PUBLIC SECTOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS
RAJYA SABHA
As on 31st
March, 2002, there are 32 projects which have not been able to
progress due to various reasons after incurring an expenditure
of Rs. 1020.79 crore. These projects have been frozen, abandoned
or merged with other projects.
The existing guidelines
for the monitoring system for projects, inter alia, contains the
following provisions:
- Adoption
of milestone monitoring for all projects
(milestones
drawn from PERT charts).
- Quarterly performance
review of all projects, implemented through the Public Sector
Enterprises and their subsidiaries by the Secretary of administrative
Ministry/Department concerned.
- Review
of departmental projects by the Empowered Committee headed by
the Secretary of the Ministry/Department to resolve the problems
encountered in implementation, including contractual impediments.
- Site visits of
projects facing constraints by the Ministries concerned.
- Special
review of identified projects by the Standing Committee of Secretaries
to resolve inter-ministerial problems.
This
information was given in Rajya Sabha today by Minister of State
for Statistics and Programme Implementation, Shri Vijay Goel in
reply to a question by Shri R.P. Goenka.
