KMP Expressway PROGRESS

KMP Expressway PROGRESS
Target Date, by July/ August 2009 (42 Months). The KMP would intersect NH-10, at a distance of merely 4 Kms from Bahadurgarh. This is expected to further shorten the distance to Gurgoan (19 Kms.) and Sonepat (25 Kms,) only. Bahadurgarh to Sonepat 19 Kms Bahadurgarh to Gurgaon 25 Kms

Target Completion date re-sheduled to Jan 2010 (Delay months) This is first extension. Performance/ poject management skill of NAHI, DS Construction and Haryan Ind Development Corp. will be tested

Both WPE (Kundli-Manesar-Palwal) and EPE (Sonepat-Baghpat-Ghaziabad), having a combined length of 269 km, are lagging badly. The deadline for WPE was July 27, 2009 but the monitoring committee on inspection found that only 12.2% of the work had been carried out by contractors till December 31, 2008 as against the target of 73.21%. EPE contract is not awarded yet due to single quote received.

PROJECT PROGRESS KMP EXPRESS Start Date Feb 2006 Target Date 29 07 09 Duration 42 Months Project Cost Rs.1, 800 Crores Revised Target Date Jan 2010 Actual Progress 12.20 % as on 31 12 08 (Planned Scheduled 73.21 %) Actual Progress 14.47 % as on 23 02 09 (Span Consultant Private appointed by HSIDC to monitor the project) Actual Progress 18.03 % as on 30 04 09 (As per Sh. AK Singla of HSIDC) Actual Progress 20.0 % as on May 09 (As per Sh. AK Singla of HSIDC) 1. This project is for National Capital of India 2. Our Supreme Court is monitoring the project progress 3. Project area with good connectivity/ communication network, availability of Infrastructure, raw material and man power 4. Executed by private player on Public Private Partnership basis 5. Toll Road early commissioned early earning per day 6. We have “Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation Government of India ” 7. State CM is monitoring the project We are failed in meeting the target. We shall analysis, Why we are NALAYAK in “Project Implementation and Management”. What will be the status of project implementation in remote / hilly/ rural/ backward/ inaccessible locations sponsored by poor and politically CHOR state governments?

Financial commissioner and principal secretary of industries, (Haryana)Mr Y S Malik said on Nov20, 2009. Malik claimed that the connectivity between NH-8 near Manesar and NH-2 near Palwal would get a push with the opening of the first stretch of the KMP expressway. "The concessionaire has told us that it would be opened for traffic in the next 3-4 months. However, we have extended the deadline of the entire stretch to December 2010,'' he said. The developer had earlier claimed to complete this stretch by this year end.

Feb 05, 2010 PROGRSS REPORT SUBMITTED TO SUPEREME COURT Western Expressway Physical Progress on Nov 30, 2009 32.20 % Vs Planned progress for July 29, 2009 - 100 %. New plan progress will be achieved on Dec 31, 2010 of 52.60 % Delhi’s environmental woes are here to stay with the ambitious Eastern Peripheral Expressway (EPE), planned as an alternate route for heavy commercial vehicles crossing the Capital, all set to miss its October 2010 deadline by four years. The environmental panel under Bhure Lal, monitoring the project work, informed the Forest Bench of the Supreme Court on Friday that while acquisition of land was still incomplete, the project has witnessed an escalation in cost from an estimated Rs 3,551 crore to Rs 4,700 crore, with the road showing no signs of completion before 2014.

The company constructing Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway (also known as Western Peripheral Expressway) on Monday Aug 16, 2010 assured the Haryana Government that the project would be completed in June 2011. It also assured that the partial 50-km stretch between Manesar and Palawal would be opened in February 2011. The commitment came in a meeting convened by Haryana Chief Secretary, Urvashi Gulati, in Chandigarh on Monday, in which KMP Expressway officials participated. Gulati asked the company to expedite work on the Expressway and complete it as early as possible. The meeting took place after the Haryana government took notice of a report published in Hindustan Times, in which KMPEL had said that it would not open the 50-km partial stretch in November but the entire 135-km stretch together in the middle of 2011, said a Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) official. The company was to open the stretch partially in November as per its earlier commitment.

Bhupinder Singh Hooda Reviews Already Delayed KMP Expressway Progress TUESDAY, 21 DECEMBER 2010 22:58 WRITTEN BY SANJEEV SHARMA Chandigarh (ABC Live): After many earlier failed deadlines on Tuesday the DS Construction company responsible to construct Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway has once gain set deadline to complete the 53 kms long stretch of the expressway from Manesar to Palwal by March 2011. Information to this effect was issued by Haryana Information and Public Relations department on Tuesday after Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Bhupinder Singh Hooda had an aerial survey of the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway and reviewed the progress of its construction work near Gurgaon and near Rai. As per released statement the 135 kms long expressway is being constructed on war footing (Defeated in WAR every time) at a cost of about Rs.1830 crore. Press release further says that according to the construction company, the DS Construction, the 53 kms long stretch of the expressway from Manesar to Palwal would be completed by March 2011 and it would be opened to traffic. It would connect National Highway No.8 and National Highway No.2. The stretch between Kundli and Manesar is expected to be completed by August 2011. The Press release quoted the company officers of the construction company that big loops would be constructed on the expressway where it cuts the Delhi-Amritsar National Highway No.1, Delhi-Fazilka National Highway No.10 and Delhi-Jaipur National Highway No.8. These officers also revealed that all clearances including that of railways for construction of ROBs have been obtained and now there would be no laxity in the construction of the expressway. The process of acquisition of land has also been completed and there was no obstruction. Initially, the expressway would be a four-lane road, but there would be provision to wide it for a six-lane road. The expressway is being constructed by DS Construction Company which had been given a time schedule of 23 years and nine months to complete it on BOT basis and recover its cost

Apr 05, 2011: Unhappy with the slow progress of the KMP Expressway, the Haryana government has warned the private concessionaire of invoking action as per terms of the concession agreement. Sources said that it could impose financial penalty on the developer, though it will be meager in comparison to the cost of the project. The state government has asked the concessionaire to give the final date of opening the first stretch between Manesar and Palwal, which was scheduled to be operational by this month-end. The concessionaire submitted that it would give the exact date after accessing the ground situation, said a senior HSIIDC official. These instructions were issued at a meeting chaired by the chief secretary, Urvashi Gulati, to review the progress of the expressway project on Tuesday. Some of the issues put forward by the concessionaire as reasons behind the slow progress were change of scope orders and forest clearance at two to three locations. Gulati said that a sub-committee of the industry secretary and the MD of the HSIIDC might get these issues resolved. The HSIIDC MD, Rajeev Arora, said that concessionaire was trying to shift the focus from non-performance to petty issues.
Miffed at the slow progress of the upcoming Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway, the Haryana government has warned concessionaire company KMP Expressways Ltd of slapping the penalty clause. According to the concession agreement, the expressway was to be completed by July 29, 2009, after which the firm would have to pay the government weekly damages at the rate of 0.01 % of the total project cost. Another clause entitles Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) to terminate the agreement after giving one-month notice to the company if operations do not start within 12 months from the scheduled completion date.

CBI FIR names PWD officials, private firms Hindustan Times, Delhi, May 02, 2011 The Central Bureau of Investigation FIR on alleged irregularities in t he award of the contract for the construction of the Barapullah Elevated Road Project (BERP) — in the run-up to the Commonwealth Games held in October 2010 — has named eight officials of the Public Works Department (PWD) and two private firms. “The FIR named two firms, DS Constructions Limited, the project’s contractor and Tandon Constructions, the project’s consultant,” said a CBI spokesperson. According to an agency source, who is not authorised to speak to the media, the eight PWD officials have been accused of awarding the BERP project — worth R433.71 crore — to construction firms at “an inflated rate”. According to the source, had the project — delayed by around five years — been completed on time, the exchequer could have saved more than R100 crore. The cost of constructing the BER came to around R56,000 per square metre. The PWD, according to the source, had split the project into “two packages”, for early completion of the project. However, it later gave both to the allegedly favoured construction firm by increasing the cost. “It led to a gain of around R50 crore to DS Constructions,” he said. While package one included construction work from Sarai Kale Khan to Mathura Road, package two was for work between Mathura Road and Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium. “The construction included elevated and slip roads and work related to landscaping, electrification and drainage,” said the source. The CBI had, on Saturday, registered the FIR over alleged irregularities in the Barapullah project. The Central Vigilance Commission had, in 2010, handed over the probe into the alleged irregularities to CBI. According to the source, the construction firm had allegedly not complied with quality control measures, including carrying out lateral load test of piles. He said the accused PWD officials also did not insist on it.

Hindustan Times, Chandigarh, May 03, 2011 KMP Expressway may miss deadline again The monthly progress of the upcoming Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway has dropped down during the first three months of this year. At the present pace, it is unlikely that the concessionaire will be able to complete the project by November 2011, the latest deadline committed by it. KMP Expressways Ltd, the concessionaire, has already missed the April 30 deadline for opening traffic on the priority section of Manesar to Palwal. “In light of the dwindling progress it is certain that the concessionaire is not going to keep up to his commitment again,” said a senior official. The monthly progress of the 135.65-km-long expressway went down to 1.06%, 0.88 % and 0.91% during January, February and March respectively. As per the latest bulletin, the concessionaire has achieved a physical progress of 61.32% (R908 crore) till March 31, 2011 against the original commercial operation date (CoD) of July 29, 2011 and revised CoD of December 31, 2010. “The monthly progress of the project had been continuously much below the targets fixed by the concessionaire and in view of the slow progress of the work, secretary, Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, who is the chairman of the monitoring committee has expressed dissatisfaction on the project,” said an official, who attended the April 5 review of the project conducted by the High Powered Committee (Expressways). Though the chairman of the Centre’s monitoring committee has asked Haryana to take appropriate action as per the concession agreement, it seems the state government is not too keen on invoking the penal clauses of the agreement. Group chairman of KMP Expressways, HS Kohli, on the other hand, has expressed reservations regarding the proposed penal action as per the minutes of the April 5 meeting.

May 30, 2011 The 135-km Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway project, which was to be thrown open to the public in 2009, to ease congested roads in Delhi, continues to linger on till date. Moreover, the Haryana government has extended the partial opening of the 53-km stretch between Manesar and Palwal slated for May 31, 2011, by three more months. Rajiv Arora, managing director, Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) said, “Besides certain issues related to clearances from the Central government, there were issues like unrest in Libya where KMPEL has many projects. I think that trouble is now over.”