Nag river project work may start in mid-2019
TNN | Nov 17, 2018, 03:22 ISTNagpur: The commencement of work on the Nag river pollution abatement project is likely to miss Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari’s deadline of February.
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which is funding the project, has told Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) that a technical team will visit the city in December and it will take four months to appraise the project. On the positive side, Japanese government has approved the project.
After the team approves the project, a loan agreement will be signed between JICA, state government and central government in Delhi. Then NMC will float tenders and work order will be issued after that. These processes will also take some time and it unlikely that the work will start before code of conduct for general elections in 2019 comes into force. The likely date is mid-2019.
NMC has requested JICA to complete the appraisal in a month or two but this difficult. “All the documentation will be done in Japanese language and this will involve translating a huge amount of paperwork,” said a source in NMC.
JICA will provide Rs1,064.48 crore or 85% while NMC will provide around Rs189.84 crore or 15% of the total project cost of Rs1,252.33 crore. The funding agency will not provide money directly to NMC. Total 60% of the money would be released by the Centre and 25% by the state government.
The river is almost 68km long and 18km of it flows through the city. As per the earlier DPR cost of Rs1252.33 crore, NMC has proposed expenditure of Rs681.4 crore for comprehensive sewerage system, Rs216.8 crore for interception and diversion works of 107 incoming polluting streams, Rs156.2 crore for land acquisition, Rs131.2 crore for sewage treatment plants, Rs13.1 crore for solar photovoltaic energy generation and Rs5.8 crore for non-sewerage works, including community toilet blocks, riverfront development, electric crematoria and cattle washing centre.
The project had been conceived when Congress-NCP government was in power in the state. NMC got the detailed project report (DPR) prepared but it had to be revised several times to get approval of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee. The process of getting in principle approval from JICA for the loan also took months in spite of interest shown by Gadkari.
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which is funding the project, has told Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) that a technical team will visit the city in December and it will take four months to appraise the project. On the positive side, Japanese government has approved the project.
After the team approves the project, a loan agreement will be signed between JICA, state government and central government in Delhi. Then NMC will float tenders and work order will be issued after that. These processes will also take some time and it unlikely that the work will start before code of conduct for general elections in 2019 comes into force. The likely date is mid-2019.
NMC has requested JICA to complete the appraisal in a month or two but this difficult. “All the documentation will be done in Japanese language and this will involve translating a huge amount of paperwork,” said a source in NMC.
JICA will provide Rs1,064.48 crore or 85% while NMC will provide around Rs189.84 crore or 15% of the total project cost of Rs1,252.33 crore. The funding agency will not provide money directly to NMC. Total 60% of the money would be released by the Centre and 25% by the state government.
The river is almost 68km long and 18km of it flows through the city. As per the earlier DPR cost of Rs1252.33 crore, NMC has proposed expenditure of Rs681.4 crore for comprehensive sewerage system, Rs216.8 crore for interception and diversion works of 107 incoming polluting streams, Rs156.2 crore for land acquisition, Rs131.2 crore for sewage treatment plants, Rs13.1 crore for solar photovoltaic energy generation and Rs5.8 crore for non-sewerage works, including community toilet blocks, riverfront development, electric crematoria and cattle washing centre.
The project had been conceived when Congress-NCP government was in power in the state. NMC got the detailed project report (DPR) prepared but it had to be revised several times to get approval of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee. The process of getting in principle approval from JICA for the loan also took months in spite of interest shown by Gadkari.
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