8/3/2013 - pmgsy

No.P-17029/1/2006/P-III
National Rural Roads Development Agency
Ministry of Rural Development
Government of India
#5 th Floor, NBCC Tower,
Bhikaji Cama Place, New Delhi-110066
Dated: 8th March, 2013.
Sub.: Minutes of Meeting to review progress of the implementation of World Bank
RRP-II in Uttarakhand.
A meeting to review the performance of World Bank RRP II for the State of
Uttarakhand was held on 4 th March, 2013 at NRRDA, New Delhi. List of participants is
enclosed as Annexure I.
1. Approval of DPRs – An entitlement of US $ 276 million (Rs.1228 crore) has
been provided as per the Project Appraisal Document (PAD) of World Bank.
(i) Approval of 36 Nos. of DPRs for 98.11 km amounting to Rs.71.54 crore
was issued in October, 2011 out of which State has withdrawn 7 DPRs for
63.37 km amounting to Rs.27.42 crore. Thus the net approval stands at 29
DPRs for 34.74 km amounting to Rs.44.12 crore.
(ii) Approval of 126 DPRs for 1139.78 km amounting to Rs.471.36 crore has
already been issued in February, 2013.
(iii) Shri K.K. Jain, Chief Engineer, PMGSY, Uttrakhand informed that 109
DPRs amounting to Rs.336 crore have been submitted in NRRDA within
this week for which pre-EC is to be held. He further promised to submit
100 DPRs for Rs.500 crore and 71 DPRs for Rs.189 crore by 31.3.2013 and
15.4.13 respectively. The Consultant (WB-I) NRRDA suggested to involve
the recently appointed PMC by the State, at this stage of processing of
DPRs.

2. Work Plan: Chief Engineer, PMGSY Uttarakhand has confirmed receipt of work
plan finalized by NRRDA for the State of Uttarakhand and has also assured that he
would be able to achieve the physical and financial targets as specified in the work
plan.
3. Procurement:
(i) Chief Engineer, PMGSY informed that 15 works for Rs.18.83 crore are in
progress. Balance 14 works are in various stages of tendering including
recall.
(ii) Chief Engineer, PMGSY Uttarakhand further informed that they have
already called tenders for 471 crore for which approval was received in
February, 2013. He had raised a query regarding single tender which has
been resolved and copy of MoRD letter No.P-17025/43/2011-RC dated
12.12.2011 withdrawing the circular No.11/2011 dated 3.11.2011 was also
handed over to him. Keeping in view the above issue of single tender, Chief
Engineer agreed to award works to the tune of Rs.200 crore within March,
2013.
(iii) Chief Engineer has been directed to submit monthly targets for call of
tender, receipt of tender and acceptance of tender by 12 th March, 2013
which shall be reviewed every month by Consultant (WB-I).
4. Physical Progress: In the formats being sent to review Physical and Financial
Progress of roads, status of progress of bridges is not being recorded. Chief
Engineer is advised to record the progress of these bridges by specifying 7-8
milestones for better appreciation of the progress.
5. Financial Progress: The updated expenditure upto January, 2013 was Rs.3.62
crore and Chief Engineer has agreed to enhance this expenditure upto 20 crore by
31 st March, 2013.
6. OMMAS: Though entries are being made regularly in OMMAS but the same
have not been closed after October, 2012 which is not healthy practice, therefore,
Chief Engineer has agreed to ensure that R&P Module of OMMAS will be

updated latest by 15 th March, 2013. Shri Ravish Chander, AD (Finance), NRRDA
shall review and report the deficiencies by 31 st March, 2013.

S.No.
List of Participants
Name and Designation State/Organization
1. Shri Puran Chandra, SE URRDA
2. Shri K. K. Jain, CE PMGSY
3. Col. R Rastogi VSM (Retd.) Meinhardt, Singapore
4. R. K. Bajaj, CGM-BD Meinhardt, Singapore
5. Shri Ravish Chander, AD NRRDA
6. Shri Arvind Singh Jyala URRDA
7. Shri Ramesh Chandra Gupta, EE URRDA
8. Shri S.S. Bhatia NRRDA
9. Shri V.K. Gupta, Consultant (WB-I) NRRDA
10. Lt. Col. Arun Kr. Kher, Consultant (WB-II) NRRDA