Bhubaneswar, March 31: Odisha govt Wednesday claimed to have fast tracked the Public –Private- Partnership projects, being implemented in State Capital and Cuttack.
State Chief Secretary Aditya Parsad Padhi said time lines have been set against each mile stone of the projects and directed concerned departments to complete their part of the work within scheduled time.
“The project proponents have been asked to take prohibitive sanitary and safety measures in the projects like Solid Waste management and bulk water supply”, he said during a review meeting of the projects.
The Chief Secretary said major projects that figured in the meeting included the bulk water supply project in Bhubaneswar and adjoining urban areas budgeted at Rs 187.71 crore and the Solid Waste Management Project for Bhubaneswar and Cuttack budgeted at Rs 252 crore.
“The bulk water supply project has been taken up to supply water to IIT, Bhubaneswar, NISER, Bhubaneswar, Sea Food park, Info-city-II, Khordha Industrial area, Khordha Municipality and Jatani Municipality”, he stated, adding construction work has been targeted to be completed by December next year.
Padhi said MEIL Bhubaneswar Bulk Water Project Pvt Ltd has been selected as the PPP partner.
“The project would be funded with equity of the PPP partner, OUIDF loan, viability gap funding by Govt of India and Govt of Odisha. The project is envisaged to meet the water demand of 44 MLD at present which is likely to be enhanced to 60 LMD in future”, he said.
Works like construction of intake well cum pump house, water treatment plan have already been started at the ground level, he added.
Padhi said preparatory works for solid waste management project along with signing of agreement with the PPP partner, preparation of DPR, signing of land license agreement, availing the consent to establish the plant from pollution control board etc have already been completed. “Collector Khurda has been asked to allot additional land required for the purpose.
The issues relating to tree cutting, interdepartmental coordination, shifting of electric poles, lying of pipe line along the campus of SOG and Chandaka forest area etc were discussed and resolved in the meeting”, he stated.
