Construction of a connecting highway between Ashram flyover and new DND flyover underway, in New Delhi, on January 2, 2023. The Ashram flyover has been closed for 45 days for the development work, inflicting site visitors congestion on roads close to the flyover.
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The highway transport and highways sector has the maximum number of delayed tasks at 428, adopted by railways at 117 and the petroleum business at 88, confirmed a authorities report.
In the highway transport and highways sector, 428 out of 724 tasks are delayed. In railways, out of 173 tasks, 117 are delayed, whereas within the petroleum sector, 88 out of 158 tasks are operating delayed, as per the newest flash report on infrastructure tasks for December 2022.
The Infrastructure and Project Monitoring Division (IPMD) is remitted to watch central sector infrastructure tasks costing ₹150 crore and above primarily based on the data offered on the Online Computerised Monitoring System (OCMS) by the venture implementing businesses.
The IPMD comes beneath the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation.
The report confirmed that the Muneerabad-Mahaboobnagar rail venture is probably the most delayed venture. It is delayed by 276 months.
The second-most delayed venture is the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla rail venture, which is delayed by 247 months.
The third-most delayed venture, Belapur-Seawood-Urban Electrified Double Line, is operating 228 months delayed.
The flash report for December 2022 incorporates info on the standing of the 1,438 central sector infrastructure tasks costing ₹150 crore and above.
As many as 835 tasks are delayed with respect to their authentic schedules and 174 tasks have reported further delays vis-a-vis their date of completion reported within the earlier month. Of these 174 tasks, 47 are mega tasks costing ₹1,000 crore and above.
About the highway transport and highways sector, the report acknowledged that the overall authentic value of implementation of 724 tasks when sanctioned was ₹3,82,180.34 crore however this was subsequently anticipated at ₹4,02,958.36 crore, implying a value overrun of 5.4%.
The expenditure incurred on these tasks until December 2022 was ₹2,35,925.26 crore, which is 58.5% of the anticipated value.
Similarly, in railways, the overall authentic value of implementation of 173 tasks when sanctioned was ₹3,72,761.45 crore, which was subsequently revised to ₹6,25,491.15 crore – a value overrun of 67.8 per cent.
The expenditure incurred on these tasks until December 2022 was ₹3,65,079.88 crore, or 58.4% of the anticipated value of the tasks.
About the petroleum sector, it stated the overall authentic value of implementation of 158 tasks when sanctioned stood at ₹3,82,097.19 crore however this was subsequently elevated to ₹4,02,446.01 crore, implying a value overrun of 5.3%.
The expenditure incurred on these tasks until December 2022 was ₹1,54,240.87 crore, or 38.3% of their anticipated value.
