Lok Sabha Question No. 26 (STARRED), answered on 2016-02-25
Subject: Delayed Highway Projects
Ministry: ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS
Asked by: DHARMENDRA YADAV, SHIVAJI ADHALRAO PATIL

be pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  of  the  delayed  and  languishing  National  Highway  projects,  State-wise  and project-wise;
- (b) the main reasons for the delayed and languishing projects along with the corrective steps taken or proposed to be taken by the Government/NHAI in this regard;
- (c) whether the Government agencies involved in the planning and execution have not been able to assess the viability of the projects correctly and faithfully;
- (d) if so, the reaction of the Government thereon; and
- (e) the steps taken by the Government to speed up the delayed and revive the languishing Highway Projects and complete them expeditiously?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## (SHRI NITIN JAIRAM GADKARI)

- (a) to (e) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## GOVERMNENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 26

ANSWERED ON 25 TH  FEBRUARY, 2016

## DELAYED HIGHWAY PROJECTS

## *26. SHRI DHARMENDRA YADAV: SHRI ADHALRAO PATIL SHIVAJIRAO:

## Will the Minister of ROAD TRANSPORT AND HIGHWAYS औ

## STATEMENT REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PARTS  (a)  TO  (e)  OF  LOK  SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 26 ANSWERED ON 25 TH  FEBRUARY, 2016 ASKED BY SHRI DHARMENDRA  YADAV  AND  SHRI  ADHALRAO  PATIL  SHIVAJIRAO  REGARDING DELAYED HIGHWAY PROJECTS

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(a) The details of delayed and languishing National Highway  (NH)  projects being implemented through various State Agencies and NHAI are placed at Annexure.

- (b) Such  languishing  NH  projects  have  been  delayed  due  to  lack  of  equity,  difficulties  in obtaining additional debt by the concessionaire, delay in land acquisition/utility shifting/statutory clearances as well as non-availability of soil/aggregates in some parts of country..
- (c) Although  implementing  agencies/NHAI  are  fully  able  to  assess  the  viability  of  any project,  however,  in  the  past  due  to  inadequate  project  preparation  and  lack  of  regulatory clearances and other delay attributable to the Authority or Concessionaire, the projects that were viable otherwise, turned unviable during execution.

(d) and (e) Government has recently taken various policy measures to revive languishing/delayed NH projects. These include

-  One time fund infusion to revive and physically complete languishing NH projects under Public-Private  Partnership  (PPP)  mode  that  have  achieved  at  least  50%  physical completion  as  such  infusion  of  moderate  funding  can  quickly  bring  these  projects  to completion.  This  assistance  will  be  provided  by  the  National  Highways  Authority  of India (NHAI) from its overall budget corpus on loan basis for a short tenure at Bank Rate +2%.
-  Government  has  also  permitted  extension  of  concession  period  for  languishing  NH projects  on  BOT  (Toll)  mode  for  the  period  of  delay  not  directly  attributable  to  the concessionaire subject to the condition that tenure of the operation period would remain unchanged and the project has to be physically completed within the next three years.
-  Payment of annuities corresponding to the actual period of delay not attributable to the concessionaire in case of languishing highways projects under BOT (Annuity) mode is also envisaged.
-  Various  steps  have  also  been  taken  by  the  Government/  NHAI  to  remove  the  hurdles affecting the construction of NH projects includes streamlining of land acquisition  and regulatory  clearances,  close  coordination  with  other  ministries,  revamped  Disputes Resolution  Mechanism  etc.  NHAI/Ministry  has  also  decided  not  to  award  any  EPC Project  till  90%  &  BOT  Project  till  80%  land  is  available  and  till  all  major  preconstruction approvals are in-place for the project in order to avoid post bid delays during execution of such projects. Due to such efforts and sustained monitoring, the number of languishing highway projects has been brought down substantially.

ANNEXURE REFERRED  TO  IN  REPLY  TO  PART  (a)  OF  LOK  SABHA  STARRED QUESTION  NO.  26  ANSWERED  ON  25.02.2016  ASKED  BY  SHRI  DHARMENDRA YADAV  AND  SHRI ADHALRAO  PATIL SHIVAJIRAO REGARDING  DELAYED HIGHWAY PROJECTS

## DETAILS OF DELAYED WORKS

|   SL. NO. | STATE/UT/SCHEME/AGENCY   |   NO. OF DELAYED WORKS |
|-----------|--------------------------|------------------------|
|         1 | Andhra Pradesh           |                      1 |
|         2 | Assam                    |                     11 |
|         3 | Bihar                    |                     12 |
|         4 | Chhattisgarh             |                      1 |
|         5 | Goa                      |                      4 |
|         6 | Gujarat                  |                      7 |
|         7 | Haryana                  |                      2 |
|         8 | Himachal Pradesh         |                      6 |
|         9 | Jharkhand                |                      3 |
|        10 | Karnataka                |                     12 |
|        11 | Kerala                   |                      3 |
|        12 | Madhya Pradesh           |                     10 |
|        13 | Maharashtra              |                      7 |
|        14 | Manipur                  |                      1 |
|        15 | Meghalaya                |                      7 |
|        16 | Mizoram                  |                      5 |
|        17 | Odisha                   |                     14 |
|        18 | Punjab                   |                     10 |
|        19 | Rajasthan                |                     12 |
|        20 | Tamil Nadu               |                      2 |
|        21 | Telangana                |                      1 |
|        22 | Uttar Pradesh            |                     17 |
|        23 | Uttarakhand              |                     16 |
|        24 | West Bengal              |                      2 |
|        25 | A &NIslands              |                      2 |
|        26 | LWE                      |                     35 |
|        27 | NHDP-IV A (Ministry)     |                      8 |
|        28 | BRO                      |                     43 |
|        29 | SARDP-NE                 |                     38 |
|        30 | NHAI                     |                    120 |