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Manipur and 2 Northeast states on Centre's bus blacklist
The Telegraph | New Delhi, Feb. 14:
The states in the blacklist include Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura, Bihar, Punjab and Chattisgarh. None of these states have a single JNNURM bus on road. Indore in Madhya Pradesh and Kalyan Dombivili in Maharashtra are two cities which have a scored a zero as well.
“If the states are not interested there is no reason why we should push money towards them. We will have to cancel funding for these states and review their future projects,” said S.K. Lohia, officer on special duty, urban transport, in the Union urban development ministry.
In fact, the northeastern states, which are given 90 per cent of central assistance for the bus scheme instead of the 50 per cent given to other states, were allotted very few buses compared to the rest of the country.
Kohima, Imphal, Aizwal and Itanagar were all awarded just 25 buses each but Kohima and Imphal have not even procured these. Agartala had been sanctioned 75 buses but none of them are on road. Shillong has procured only 60 of the 120 buses sanctioned for it. Guwahati has performed a shade better than the rest. Of the 200 buses sanctioned for it, it has bought 144. “There are several issues in case of JNNURM buses. We will soon hold a review meeting to clear the issues. For example, in case of Shillong, they have utilised the money sent from the Union government but haven’t contributed their share of 10 per cent,” Lohia said.
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