Saturday, December 22, 2007

Deshmukh seeks M`rashtra`s Plan outlay to double

Chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has wants to keep aside Rs 25,000 crore for infrastructure projects, to be carried out under the public-private-partnership model (PPP). He is in favour of doubling the state''s Plan outlay from Rs 66,632 crore in the 10th Five Year Plan to Rs 1.27 lakh crore in 11th Plan.

The state has undertaken many infrastructure projects including road, bridges, metro railway, development of ports and airports under the PPP model and wants to take up many more projects under this model. The chief minister was speaking at the National Development Council''s (NDC) meet at Delhi on Dec 19.

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