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Tuesday August 17th
. BSTDC Set To Sign MoU For Cruise In Ganga (0 comments)
. New Officers Training Academy To Be Set Up In Bihar (0 comments)
. Proposed Rule For Selecting Students Of IITs Opposed (0 comments)

Monday August 16th
. Going Online: IT Majors Take Tech Route To Hiring (0 comments)
. Gaya Airport To Be Developed As Govt Refuses Land for Patna (0 comments)

Sunday August 15th
. Bihar Agri Institute To Help Region With Tech, Seeds (0 comments)
. Bihar Govt Draws Rs 570 Crore For Diesel Subsidy For Farmers (0 comments)

Saturday August 14th
. Bihar To Declare More Districts Drought-Hit (0 comments)

Friday August 13th
. BSNL Comes Up With Spl Offers (0 comments)
. No Tieup In Bihar: Congress (0 comments)
. CM Lays Stone For Police Academy At Rajgir (0 comments)
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. New Central Varsities Facing Infrastructure Problems (0 comments)

Thursday August 12th
. Govt Signs MoU To Develop Tourist Sites (0 comments)
. City Roads To Be Named After Freedom Fighters (0 comments)
. Tourism Given Industry Status In Bihar (0 comments)
. Bihar To Extend IT Benefits To Agriculture Sector (0 comments)
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. Work On Jagjiwan Bridge May Be Completed By Sept 2011 (0 comments)
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Tuesday August 10th
. HC Stays New Apartments Buildings In Kidwaipuri Area (0 comments)
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Monday August 9th
. City Likely To Have Ganga Riverfront Soon (0 comments)

Saturday August 7th
. Patna University (PU) Colleges, PG Depts To Be Wired (0 comments)

Thursday August 5th
. Bihar To Seek Rs 15,000-Crore Central Package For Drought (0 comments)

Wednesday August 4th
. New Infra In Bihar Provides Greater Access To Mkts And Schools; spurs Economic Activity In State (0 comments)

Tuesday August 3rd
. Bihar Declares 28 of 38 Districts Drought-Hit (0 comments)
. Snag In Underground Cable Hits Power Supply (0 comments)
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Monday August 2nd
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318 Delayed Projects Cost of Rs 24,670 Crore Could Have Fed Half Of India's Poor For 4 Months

Three Hundred and eighteen government projects running behind schedule has cost an additional Rs 24,670 crore to the exchequer This money could have fed half of India's below poverty line population for close to four months.

A Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation report on the status of Central governments 897 infrastructure projects worth Rs 3,59,451 crores, surveyed between July and September 2007, shows that the maximum number of proj- ects delayed was in road transport followed by railways and power. The Railways ministry witnessed the maximum increase of 53 per cent in project costs because of delays.

As on September 30, 2007, the projects witnessed cost overruns of 15.32 per cent, thereby increasing the cost by Rs 24,670 crore, says the report. The reasons given for huge cost overrun were an exponential increase in the cost of raw material such as cement and steel.

The maximum number of delayed projects was in the road construction sector on various national highways under the National Highway Authority of India.

In Delhi, the record of the NHAI is very poor, says the report. After a delay in the Delhi-Gurgoan expressway, the widening of GT Karnal road has not been completed five years after the original date of commissioning in April 2003. Till September 2007 only 37 per cent of the work has been completed with a cost escalation of Rs 98 crore.

Lalitha Kumar, Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation says the escalation of cost on account of delays can be minimised but the government cannot do much about cost overruns owing to general inflation.

The report, however points out that the government's performance on delayed project has, in fact, improved over the past 16 years. As against 60 per cent projects being behind schedule on March 1994, the percentage has fallen to about 36 per cent in 2007.

Source: Hindustan Times, May/03/2008

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