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Cabinet Committee on infrastructure - one too many?
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Bikky Khosla | 14 Jul, 2009
The Budget has been announced and the postmortem is over. We gained
some, we lost too. But now we need to carry on. The government too
needs to do its bit. I think attaching topmost priority to the
infrastructure sector and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh constituting
a high-level Cabinet Committee on infrastructure is a good move.
This
will hopefully put the implementation of the various infrastructure
sector projects on the fast track and will help monitor the performance
of various agencies involved. If we consider the SMEs, lack of proper
infrastructure - especially energy, railways, roads and national
highways, ports, airports, telecommunications, information technology,
etc. - is a major concern.
This is underscored by a new survey
by the research arm of Moody's which has said that the country's
"infrastructure development is likely to be one of the key drivers of
industrial activity, which will see an upturn in a few months".
It's
an undeniable fact that for long inadequate roads, ports and railways
have long held India back from realizing its full growth potential. Now
there is hope at the end of the tunnel. However, monitoring of the
infrastructure projects needs to be stringent and sans delays. Usually
infrastructure projects are mired by corruption and delays and the fact
that infrastructure committees have been around for years without much
sheen, the newly-formed committee needs to shed its earlier tag and
work on a war footing.
However at a given point of time, there
are as many as 1,500 projects being implemented simultaneously and
expecting the newly-formed committee to look into all these projects
(which are above Rs 150 crore) and their problems is a Herculean task
which makes me wonder how it is going to make it happen.
Let's just hope that it does not die an untimely death as have earlier committees!
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INFRASTRUCTRE
AJIT SINGH KHOSLA | Wed Jul 15 05:49:35 2009
Time has come that we should now focus on our rural area our cities are busting at seems instead of spending crores on cities we should start developing our rurals we the movement back to village( gaon wapas chalon) thousands of people are coming to cities daily if they get just 10% of infrastrure what they are going to get here they willhappily stay in villages so to all enterpenures go to villages .
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Re: INFRASTRUCTRE
Ashwin Bahl | Thu Jul 16 09:54:06 2009
Talking about infrastructure etc, one wonders when will we see an end to the dark ages Octroi system in Maharashtra, we in Mumbai face heavy delays and unnecessary paperwork and we are the commercial capital of India!! It is a bottle neck, with stranded goods, lorries, personnnel at all Check Naka points.Imagine the man hours loss, imagine the productivity loss, it is mind boggling. The State Government just seems to be unperturbed what the Industry, traders have been saying all along, GET rid of this archaic Octroi. I do not know how may expert Committees have been set up to look into this. It is a shame we are one of the few countries which still has this system.
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Re: Re: INFRASTRUCTRE
S.Sengupta | Wed Jul 22 11:02:55 2009
I fully agree with you. The "Check Naka" yields more by way of funds for the "Checkers" than the Octroi itself.
That is why it is self-perpetuating !
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Re: INFRASTRUCTRE
Advocate Deepak Tiwari | Thu Jul 16 11:14:22 2009
By developing rural infrastructure you can just make some people stay back or come back to rural areas. Some sophisticated job opportunities still not be available in villages and crowd in cities could not be decongested. Making available of urbon facilities and amenities in rural areas, internet connections, etc. could make rural areas at par with urbon areas then only migration could stop.
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