An Uttarakhand Lodge cum Emporium will be
constructed at Navi Mumbai in PPP mode.
Also, a potable water cluster scheme will
be set up in Mehuwala in Dehradun.A Project Development Fund of Rs.2 Crore has
been created for these two projects. This was decided at a meeting held on
wednesday at the secretariat ,presided over by Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar.
The PPP cell will operate the PDF and the chairman of the PDF will be the Chief Secretary. Any
department access money from this fund
to complete initial formalities
of any new project .This money will have to be returned once the project takes off The PDF corpus
will be increased later.
Uttarakhand government got 4000 sq.km land
in Vasi in Navi Mumbai on lease but the lease was cancelled by the Maharashtra
government as clearance from the Coastal
Region Authority took a lot of time to pass the map. Now, the lease has been
renewed and construction has to be done within two years.
The PPP cell of Uttarakhand is going to
issue an RFP (request for proposal) for this, also appointing a transaction
officer.
A water scheme PPP mode for 79 settlements in Mehuwala will also be
set up through which 60,000 people will get water through 18000 connections.An
RFP has been issued.
Present at the meeting were Principal Secretary (finance) Rakesh Sharma,
PS (Planning) S.Ramaswamy and RSA V.S.Pandey.
