The Uttarakhand government has set up a public investment board (PIB) to clear projects related to state-run corporations, committees and boards where its funding is Rs 1 crore and above.
The six-member board would be headed by the chief secretary for which the notification has been issued.
The main task of the board would be to assess a project’s viability and find out whether the proposal is in line with the priorities of the state.
The board would also assess the viability of setting up new corporations and companies. Significantly, all those projects which had already been initiated recently would also be reassessed by the PIB in case the cost is 25 per cent more than Rs one crore.
Under the new notification, it would be now mandatory to present all the project descriptions like target beneficiaries, strategies, justification, estimated capital and operating costs with break-up under major heads of expenditures. The project description should also detail about the basis of cost estimates as well as its base price.
In case of social projects, the monitoring of the project in terms of its performance and output would also be necessary. When contacted, Principal Secretary, Finance, Alok Jain said, “The main aim of the government is to check the viability of the projects in order to stop unnecessary expenditures.”
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