The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the proposal for an intensified Malaria Control project for North Eastern states except Sikkim. According to official release the project is estimated to cost over 417 crore rupees. In another decision the CCEA cleared the Project for cleaning of River Ganga. 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. In yet another decision CCEA approved the revised cost estimate of over 2288 crore rupees for the National Automotive Testing and Research and Development Infrastructure Project. It 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.
News On AIR | April 28, 2011 5:47 PM
CCEA approves proposal for intensified Malaria Control project