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The
Committee on Infrastructure was constituted
on 31
August, 2004 under the Chairmanship of the
Prime Minister. The committee comprises of the
following members:
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Dr.
Manmohan Singh
Prime
Minister
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Shri
Lalu Prasad
Minister of Railways
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3.
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Shri
Sushil Kumar Shinde,
Minister of Power
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4.
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Shri
P. Chidambaram,
Minister of Finance
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5.
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Shri
T.R. Baalu
Minister of Shipping,
Road Transport & Highways
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Shri
Murli Deora,
Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas
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7.
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Smt.
Ambika Soni
Minister of Tourism & Culture
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Shri
A.Raja
Minister of Communication
& Information Technology
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9.
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Shri
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission
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10.
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Dr.
C. Rangarajan
Chairman,
Economic Advisory Council to the PM
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11.
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Shri
Praful Patel
Minister of State for Civil Aviation
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12.
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Dr.
Kirit S. Parikh
Member, Planning Commission
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13.
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Shri
Anwarul Hoda
Member, Planning Commission
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14.
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Shri
B.K. Chaturvedi
Member, Planning Commission
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Objectives
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Initiating policies that ensure time-bound
creation of world class infrastructure
delivering services matching international
standards;
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Developing structures that maximize the
role of public-private partnerships in the
field of infrastructure; and
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Monitoring progress of key infrastructure
projects to ensure that established
targets are realized.
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Terms
of Reference
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To develop a priority list of infrastructure
projects/programmes aimed at augmenting
and/or modernizing infrastructure capacity
to meet demand or achieve set
targets/objectives, and to develop a
monitoring mechanism to track progress of
these projects and remove inter-ministerial
bottlenecks
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To suggest institutional, regulatory and
procedural reforms; and initiate policy
directives that are required to create
world-class infrastructure
competitively-within a set time frame. This
would cover any issues that cut across
sectors
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To suggest institutional, regulatory and
procedural reforms; and initiate policy
directives that ensure that the
infrastructure created actually delivers
services at international standards. This
would cover any issues that cut across
sectors
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To identify measures to refine project
formulation, project planning and project
management processes in line with
international best practices.
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To address issues relating to ensuring the
longer term financial viability of service
providers both in the public sector or the
private sector without which capacity
expansion cannot take place. In this context
the group will consider initiatives needed
to develop sustainable revenue models that
make public-private partnerships feasible.
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To address policies and issues relating to
infrastructure that are relevant to any of
the above tasks.
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Empowered
Sub-Committee of the Committee on
Infrastructure
With
a view to facilitating the functioning of the
CoI, an Empowered Sub-Committee of the
Committee on Infrastructure has been constituted
on 16th May 2005.
Functions
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Formulate/review/approve policy papers and
proposals for submission to CoI
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Monitor and follow up on implementation of
the decisions of CoI; and
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Undertake such other actions as may be
necessary in furtherance of the objectives
of CoI
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Secretariat
for CoI
A
secretariat has been set up in the Planning
Commission to service the CoI. The secretariat
is headed by Adviser to Deputy Chairman.
Key
officials of the Secretariat
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E-Mail |
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Shri
Gajendra Haldea |
Adviser
to Deputy Chairman |
23096582 |
g.haldea@nic.in |
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Shri
Ravi Mital |
Adviser (Infrastructure) |
23096655 |
r.mital@nic.in |
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Shri
S.P. Chouhan |
Director
(Highways/Civil Aviation & Coordination)
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23096721 |
sp.chouhan@nic.in |
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Shri
S.K.Saha |
Director (Ports/Railways/
Urban Transport)
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23096747 |
sonjoy.saha@nic.in |
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Ms.Vandana
Aggarwal |
Director (Power/Investment/
Regulation)
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23096507 |
vaggarwal@nic.in |
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Smt.
Namita Mehrotra |
Director (Social
Sectors/
PPP Processes)
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23096618 |
namita.m@nic.in |
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Shri
K.Ranga Reddy |
Joint
Adviser
(PPP
appraisal)
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23096530 |
kreddy@nic.in |
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