📋 Tender Overview
Fifty five non-exempted Central MinistriesDepartments are mandated to spend at least 10 of their Gross Budgetary Support GBS for Central Sector and Centrally Sponsored Schemes in the North Eastern Region NER to accelerate the pace of development. Several infrastructure development projects including connectivity projects have been taken up by the concerned Ministries and Departments of the Central Government in the North Eastern Region NER. These relate to improving air connectivity rail connectivity road connectivity waterway connectivity power connectivity and telecom connectivity in the NER. These inter-alia includeAir connectivity Total 28 projects have been completed from 2016-17 to 2021-22 with the approved cost of Rs. 975.58 crore and completion cost of Rs. 979.07 crore. There are 15 ongoing projects with sanctioned amount of Rs. 2212.30 crore.Rail connectivity As on 01.04.2022 Ministry of Railways has sanctioned 19 projects costing Rs.77930 crore for 1909 km length falling fully partly in North Eastern Region including those sanctioned since 2014 which are at different stages of planningapprovalexecution out of which 409 km length has been commissioned and an expenditure of Rs.30312 crore incurred upto March 2022. These include i 14 New Line Projects covering a length of 1181 km at a cost of Rs.61520 crore out of which 361 km length has been commissioned and an expenditure of Rs.27458 crore incurred upto March 2022 and ii 5 DoublingMulti tracking Projects covering a length of 728 km at a cost of Rs.16410 crore out of which 48 km length has been commissioned and an expenditure of Rs.2854 crore incurred upto March 2022.Road Connectivity A total of 4016.48 km costing Rs.58385 crore are ongoing in NER. These projects were undertaken during the last 5 years. The completed projects in NER cover a length of 3099.50 km at a cost of Rs.15570.44 crore. The ongoing projects are likely to be completed by May 2024. The major ongoing Capital Road Connectivity projects in NER include the 4 Laning of Dimapur- Kohima Road 62.9 km in Nagaland 4 laning of Nagaon bypass to Holongi 167 km in Arunachal Pradesh Alternate two-lane Highway from Bagrakote to Pakyong NH-717A 152 km in Sikkim 2 laning of Aizawl Tuipang NH-54 351 km in Mizoram and 4 laning of Imphal Moreh section of NH-3920 km and 2-laning of 75.4 km in Manipur.Waterway connectivity River Brahmaputra from Dhubri Bangladesh Border to Sadiya 891km was declared as National Waterway-2 NW-2 in 1988. The waterway is being developed with fairway of required depth and width day and night navigation aids and terminals. The facilities created and planned would cost Rs. 461crore during 5 years 2020-2025. River Barak was declared as National Waterway-16 NW -16 in the year 2016. It connects Silchar Karimganj and Badarpur in Cachar valley of Assam with Haldia and Kolkata ports through Indo-Bangladesh Protocol IBP Route. The facilities created and planned would cost Rs.145 crore during 5 years 2020-2025.Power connectivity Ministry of Power has also undertaken power generation hydrothermal projects since 2014 in the North Eastern States. Further the transmission and distribution network has also been strengthened in these North Eastern States. 03 Hydro Electric Projects above 25 MW totaling to 740 MW have been undertaken in the North Eastern States. A Gas based Power Project in the State of Assam viz. Lakhwa Replacement Power Project of 69.755 MW capacity 7 x 9.965MW by Ms Assam Power Generation Corporation Ltd. was commissioned on 14.02.2018. Further Government of India has launched various schemes to enable States including North Easter augmentation of sub-transmission distribution infrastructure along with metering and IT enablement of distribution infrastructures etc. For strengthening of transmission network in the North-Eastern Region Inter-State Transmission projects have been undertaken which includes new transmission lines extensionupgradation of existing substations augmentation of transformation capacity reconductoring of transmission lines etc. Further Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.PGCIL is executing two major Intra State power transmission and distribution schemes viz. i North Eastern Region Power System Improvement Project NERPSIP for Six States Assam Manipur Meghalaya Mizoram Tripura and Nagaland for strengthening of the Intra-State Transmission and Distribution Systems 33 kV and above sanctioned at an estimated cost of Rs.6700 crore and iiComprehensive Scheme for Strengthening of Transmission and Distribution System in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim sanctioned at an estimated cost of Rs.9129.32 crore.Telecom connectivity Department of Telecommunications has also undertaken several projects in the North Eastern States for strengthening telecom connectivity in the region which interalia include i Mobile Services in uncovered villages in Assam Manipur Mizoram Nagaland Tripura Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh National Highways only and seamless coverage along National Highway ii Mobile connectivity in Meghalaya and along National Highways on 4G Technology iii Mobile connectivity in Arunachal Pradesh and 2 Districts of Assam iv Bharat Net and Wi-Fi Connectivity for Village Panchayats in North Eastern Region and v Hiring of 10 Gbps International Bandwidth for Internet Connectivity to Agartala from BSCCL Bangladesh via Cox Bazar. In the North Eastern States 1358 towers covering 1246 villages have been installed and providing services.
