CCEA approves Rs. 1,353 crore ADB-assisted North East road development project

NEW DELHI, 19 May [PIB]: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today approved the project proposal titled, “ADB assisted North Eastern State Roads Investment Programme (NESRIP)”, a centrally sponsored scheme of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region to construct/ upgrade/ improve a total of 433 km of roads in six NE States at an estimated cost of Rs. 1,353.83 Crore to be implemented over a period of 5 years i.e. 2011-2016.
The State wise road lengths are: Assam 74.70 km, Meghalaya 93.40 km and Sikkim 34.20 km in Tranche-I and Assam 62.90 km, Manipur 93.20 km. Mizoram 55.00 km and Tripura 20.30 km in Tranche-II.

The Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region is the Executing Agency and is responsible for overall coordination with ADB and participating States and monitoring the progress of the project. A Central level steering committee and Internal Project Management Unit (IPMU) within MDONER, and a State level steering committee and Project Implementation Units (PIUs) have been established in each project State.
The PIUs in each State will have primary responsibility for day-to-day project implementation and coordination of both the road works programme and Institutional Development and Capacity Building (IDCB) initiatives and will include staff for project management functions in engineering, procurement, contract management, environmental planning and management, social analysis and management, re-settlement planning and implementation, road maintenance, road safety and accounting. They will be assisted in the operation by project management consultants and construction supervision consultants.
An estimated 4.8 million people living adjacent (within 10 km) to the Project Roads will be directly benefitted. Others will benefit from lower transport costs, faster transit time etc.