A meeting of State Level Steering Comiitee under JNNURM was held at the Secretariat, Porvorim on 26th July , 2013 under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and the a detailed Project Report (DPR)) on Solid Waste Management for Panaji City costing about Rs.10 Lacks and The Review of Project approved under JNNURM on Heritage Conservation (CCP) and 24 x 7 water supply Project for Panaji City (PWD) was discussed . Also another issues were taken up during the discussion was Development of St Ines Creek which is costing 2500/- Lacks, The comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP) for 2011-2031 for Panaji City costing about 750 crores and the Basic Services for Urban Poor under JNNURM (BSUP) presented by Dr. Nandkumar Kamat costing Rs 10 crores was also taken up by the committee for discussions.
The DPR presented and approved by the Steering Committee of the last JNNURM committee was shelved by GSIDC and a new plant of German Technology costing about 100 crores instead of 35 crores Solid waste Management facility proposed by the DPR of Tetra Tech was kept aside. My observation is that NNURM would not accept this proposal as it involves huge maintenance, running and production costs Definitely JNNURM , New Delhi would not accept this proposal which is a white elephant and disastrous to the residents of Panaji in lieu of the Tetra Tech proposal. The proposal submitted with German Technology will surely fail which is impossible to run by the Goan unskilled man power, which invites huge funding. Another issue was proposed by the subcommittee for consideration of SLSC for Basic Services for urban Poor by the Chairman Dr. Nandkumar Kamat where a list of beneficiaries under BSUP within CCP is submitted for consideration costing Rs 10 crores. It is strange that such a expenditure is being proposed and hopefully it may be kept aside at the moment, when we have 90% of Goa population contracted with the Diabetics disease and not been taken care of, so far in a proper way. The same amount could have been utilized for the manufacturing of Insulin Plant in Goa, which will serve many Goan patients of Diabetic disease. All these additional unwarranted proposals at the moment should be kept at the back burner. I suggest that the public should go through these proposals taken up by the Committee in order to avoid wrong implementation and thus it could be a failure of availing funds under JNNURM project on account of huge cost expenditure. Stephen Dias