The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal for an intensified Malaria Control project for seven North Eastern states. The objective is to control the disease effectively in these states. Sikkim state is not among the seven states being covered under the project. According to official release the project will be carried out under the National Vector Borne Disease Control Program with the support from Global Funds for Aids. It is estimated to cost over 417 crore rupees. In another decision the CCEA cleared the Project for cleaning of River Ganga. The project will be implemented by the National Ganga River Basin Authority, NGRBA. The project is estimated to cost 7000 crore rupees. The share of the Centre will be 5100 crore rupees and that of the State Governments of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal will be 1900 crore rupees. The World Bank has agreed in-principle to provide a loan assistance of approximately 4600 crore rupees to the Centre for NGRBA project, which will form part of the central share of the project. The duration of the project will be eight years. In yet another decision it approved the revised cost estimate of over 2288 crore rupees for the National Automotive Testing and Research and Development Infrastructure Project. This will be in place of the earlier cost estimate of 1718 crore rupees. The CCEA also revised the completion date to 31st of December 2012 in place of 30th of September this year. The CCEA also gave its nod for revised cost estimates of about 480 crore rupees with a foreign exchange component of over eight billion US dollars for setting up National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management at Kundli, Haryana.