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| J&K performance poor in completion of roads under PMRP | | Delay leads to cost escalation of 2 to 9 times | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 5: The executing agencies of Jammu and Kashmir government have shown a poor performance to implement various projects under Prime Minister's Reconstruction Programme (PMRP) as majority of the road projects under this scheme have been witnessing the cost escalation of two to nine times in terms of original and revised cost of projects.
According to a fresh monitoring report of Home Department, till the month of December 2014, it has come to fore that major road projects being executed by J&K Public Works Department or Border Roads Organization (BRO) have recorded huge increase in original and revised cost of projects. Besides these road projects have also failed to get completed in prescribed time limit and have been running behind schedule.
The first road project under PMRP which witnessed cost escalation is 84-km-long Mughal road. The original cost of project was Rs 159 cr but the revised cost has reached Rs 639.85 cr which was nearly 401 per cent higher than the original cost. Moreover, the road is still not completed even after the lapse of nine years, since it was started. The double laning of 265-km-long Kishtwar -Batote road was started in May 2002 when its original cost was Rs 464 cr. Its revised cost is estimated at Rs 924 cr which is nearly double the original cost. The expenditure on the project is Rs 841.72 cr but the physical progress is 61.62 percent, which means it will take many more years for completion of the road project.
Cost escalation is also recorded in 17.50 km Uri-Salamabad-Kamanpost (LoC) road, which was started in March 2005 with an estimated cost of Rs 37.60 cr but the revised cost has been estimated at Rs 45.15 cr and the progress is 93 percent.
The double laning of 422 km Srinagar-Leh road witnessed nearly two fold increase in original and revised cost. The original cost was Rs 426.40 cr while the estimated cost is Rs 981.45 cr. The physical progress of road is 81 per cent and the targeted date of completion has been set as December 2015.
The minimum progress has been recorded in 292 km Nimu-Padam-Darcha road with 10 percent physical progress. The original cost of project was projected at Rs 251 cr while the revised cost has been estimated at Rs 1849.15 cr. The targeted date of completion has been set up for March 2021. |
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