Chennai:
Japanese Investment cooperation Agency has yet to receive the request to fund the 129km Chennai Peripheral Ring Road project from the Centre.
Senior representative of Japan International Cooperation Agency Ichiguchi Tomohide said that the project, which the state government expects to be more than Rs 10,000 crore, could be funded after Department of Economic Affairs gives its nod.
Interestingly, this is not the only project which is pending with the Union government. Even the extension of the first phase of Chennai Metro Rail is pending with the Union government.
State highways department officials said that the socio- economic study has been competed and they have submitted the report to the Centre which will forward it to Japan International Cooperation Agency, which is funding the project.
The project is being implemented by Tamil Nadu Road Infrastructure Development Company (TNRIDC), is aimed to ease congestion besides making the freight movement to Ennore port from
southern manufacturing parts of the state easier.
Around 15 to 20 per cent of the cost of the project is being funded by
the state government.
Similarly, Chennai Metro Rail’ s Phase I extension project to Tiruvotiyur is still awaiting Union Cabinet’s approval after Union Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu made the announcement last year that his ministry has cleared the proposal.
The proposal to extend the Phase I extension of the project by further 9 km from Washermanpet to Wimco Nagar at Tiruvottiyur costs somewhere around Rs 3,700 crore.
Even the funding of desalination project was delayed by Centre as the New Urban Renewal Mission schemes and its guidelines were yet to be formulated. It was given clearance by the Centre only last month after the state government wrote to Centre to expedite clearance.
The funding of 150 MLD desalination at Nemelli, south of Chennai is likely to be finalised with the visit of German funding agency KfW o fficials on October 5
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