Minister of State for Road Transport and Highways Sarvey Sathyanarayana informed Lok Sabha that the construction of the entire length of Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) has been completed, except 110 metre.
The North – South and East – West Corridor has also been completed, except 636 km under implementation and 372 km to be awarded.
There are some delays in implementation of some projects owing to land acquisition, shifting of utilities, non-availability of soil, aggregates, environmental, forest, wild life clearance, non-availability or lack of equity with the Concessionaires, poor performance of contractors, arbitration or contractual disputes with contractors, delay in achieving financial closure, among others.
In order to expedite implementation of the Projects, Regional Offices have been set up by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) headed by Chief General Manager. Powers have been delegated to the Chief General Managers, the minister informed.
Special land acquisition units are also set up to expedite land acquisition. Chief Secretaries of state government have also been nominated as Nodal officers to expedite construction of highway projects.
Projects are also closely and periodically reviewed at headquarter as well as field units. Recently, the issues of delinking environmental clearance from forest clearance and exempting linear stretches from the requirement of NOC from Gram Sabha have been resolved, Sathyanarayana informed.
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