Aizawl May 17: In the 54th North East Council meeting which was held held today, Doner and NEC Secretary Ms Sushma Singh said among the thrust area of NEC during the 11th Plan would be to improve capacities of states to implement projects.
While giving her report, Ms Singh said NEC will now no longer take up projects that are less than Rs 200 crores and will discontinue with small projects except to complete ongoing projects during the 11th Plan and this too with the spill-over of Rs 1921.69 crores from the 10th Plan.
The first priority in thrust area for NEC for the 11th Plan is road and air connectivity with power sector taking the second place. Ms Singh said several fiscal reforms had been made in the road sector that would bring about improvement in implementing the road projects. Among the fiscal reforms is bringing in a third party to oversee quality control on projects.
Transport (road, river and air) was given the lion’s share during the 10th Plan which amounted to 58.72 percent of the total outlay for Tenth Five Year Plan which was Rs 2511.50 crores of which Rs 2495.67 crores was spent during the period.
Two road schemes and seven out of ten proposed airports were completed during the period.
According to the NEC Secretary, 4.3 percent of the total outlay was allocated to manpower development during the last Five Year Plan from which several hostels were constructed in Delhi for students from the region.
During the same period, NEC funded 500 schools and 24 colleges to be covered under IT education.
Ms Singh also informed the meeting that from now on, all financial transaction would be done through electronic transfers, mainly core banking and NEC will release funds to the states only through this method.
Bad weather today caused Doner minister and NEC chairman Mani Shankar Aiyer to arrive in Aizawl at 12:30 pm as a result of which the meeting was commenced without him at 10:30 am, half an hour late from the scheduled commencement of the meeting.
Connectivity was the main theme of all chief ministers’ and governors’ speeches which underlined the poor connectivity – road and air – that the region has. Apart from this, other commonalities that the states had are power development, agriculture and its allied sector and tourism, except for Sikkim which has a thriving tourism industry already.
NEC will hold its 5th Sectoral Summit concerning mostly air connectivity tomorrow here.
While giving her report, Ms Singh said NEC will now no longer take up projects that are less than Rs 200 crores and will discontinue with small projects except to complete ongoing projects during the 11th Plan and this too with the spill-over of Rs 1921.69 crores from the 10th Plan.
The first priority in thrust area for NEC for the 11th Plan is road and air connectivity with power sector taking the second place. Ms Singh said several fiscal reforms had been made in the road sector that would bring about improvement in implementing the road projects. Among the fiscal reforms is bringing in a third party to oversee quality control on projects.
Transport (road, river and air) was given the lion’s share during the 10th Plan which amounted to 58.72 percent of the total outlay for Tenth Five Year Plan which was Rs 2511.50 crores of which Rs 2495.67 crores was spent during the period.
Two road schemes and seven out of ten proposed airports were completed during the period.
According to the NEC Secretary, 4.3 percent of the total outlay was allocated to manpower development during the last Five Year Plan from which several hostels were constructed in Delhi for students from the region.
During the same period, NEC funded 500 schools and 24 colleges to be covered under IT education.
Ms Singh also informed the meeting that from now on, all financial transaction would be done through electronic transfers, mainly core banking and NEC will release funds to the states only through this method.
Bad weather today caused Doner minister and NEC chairman Mani Shankar Aiyer to arrive in Aizawl at 12:30 pm as a result of which the meeting was commenced without him at 10:30 am, half an hour late from the scheduled commencement of the meeting.
Connectivity was the main theme of all chief ministers’ and governors’ speeches which underlined the poor connectivity – road and air – that the region has. Apart from this, other commonalities that the states had are power development, agriculture and its allied sector and tourism, except for Sikkim which has a thriving tourism industry already.
NEC will hold its 5th Sectoral Summit concerning mostly air connectivity tomorrow here.
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