CLEARANCE SOUGHT FOR CENTRAL PROJECTS

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LOK SABHA

All Central projects involving an investment of Rs, 100.00 crore and above have to get the clearance from the Cabinet or Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) before implementation.

The norms for approval of new large social and infrastructure projects as notified by Ministry of Finance are as fillows:

Project/ Scheme Outlay	Approval Authority
Less than Rs. 50 crore	Minister in-charge of Administrative Ministry
Rs. 50 crore and above but less than Rs. 100 crore	Minister of Administrative Ministry and the Finance Minister
Rs. 100 crore and above	Cabinet/CCEA
Proposals for new autonomous orrganisations irrespective of outlay	Cabinet/ CCEA

This information was given to Lok Sabha today by Shri S.B.Mookherjee, Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation, in a written reply to a question by Shri T M Selvaganapathi, Shri Ramsheth Thakur and Shri Ashok N. Mohol.

The Minister informed the House that the time for the appraisal of projects has been reduced from 24 weeks to 16 weeks as per the New Guidelines issued by the Department of Expenditure.