It’s a long, long wait for KMP Expressway

Aditya DevOct 16, 2012, 08.03AM IST

GURGAON: Even as the Haryana and Delhi governments have set May 2013 the fresh deadline for completing the 135-km Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway, the project has made an overall progress of just about 70% so far.

The private concessionaire developing the expressway, KMP Expressways Ltd, on the other hand claims that the 53-km priority stretch between Manesar and Palwal is scheduled to be completed by November 2012 and will open to public by December. Over 85% work on the stretch has been completed, with all the 83 major structures ready and already connected to the main carriageway.

The major structures on the stretch include 14 small and big bridges, 8 cattle crossings, 12 agriculture vehicle underpasses, 23 pedestrian crossings, 21 underpasses and 5 box culverts.

At present, the final layer of dense bituminous macadam, the commonly used bituminous paving mixes in India, is being laid and has been done for up to 48 km of the total stretch of 53 km. The rest would be completed soon, said a spokesperson.

Completion of KMP Expressway will help de-congest traffic in the city as vehicles coming from Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and going to Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra will use it to avoid Delhi and Gurgaon.

The concessionaire made the commitment at a meeting held on June 8 2012 in Delhi between the chief ministers of Haryana and Delhi, to open the Manesar-Palwal section for tolling within the next 90 to 120 days and complete the expressway by May 31 2013.

Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had told TOI, "Decidedly, the progress on the project is slow and the concessionaire has been asked by various authorities including the high powered committee (expressway) Haryana, monitoring committee constituted by the Supreme Court, chairman/ EPCA for NCR, besides HSIIDC and an independent consultant, to speed up the work. The HSIIDC has already imposed damages on the concessionaire for delay in meeting the commercial operation date to the extent of 0.1 per cent of the total project cost per week or part hereof since July 30 2009 till the commercial operation date is met."

According to the chief minister's office, as per the latest progress report received from the concessionaire, the physical progress achieved up to July 31 2012 is 67.76 per cent (Rs 1,003.54 crore) with monthly physical progress of 0.03 per cent (Rs 0.39 crore). The concessionaire has intimated that the gross financial progress achieved up to July 31 2012 is 76.56 per cent (Rs 1262.04 crore) with monthly financial progress of 0.02 per cent (Rs 0.30 crore).

The concessionaire, on the other hand, blames a litigation case and difficulty in getting clearances from various agencies for project delay. "Right at the beginning of the project there was a delay of 18 months due to litigation by one of the consortium partners. The project got further delayed due to much time taken in getting clearances and approvals from specific authorities. These included delays in getting clearances for crossing Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. pipelines, relocation of high tension overhead transmission lines and land acquisition issues," said the spokesperson.

There were delays in getting the final design change approvals for the railway over bridges, grade separators and design changes done in the original design to address the concerns of the local villagers.

Bahadurgarh Metro on fast track: Hooda

Bahadurgarh Metro on fast track: Hooda

Jul 14, 2012,

GURGAON: Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Friday claimed that the Bahadurgarh-Mundka Metro link has been put on fast-track.

Hooda was speaking at the 26th meeting of the northern zonal council in Delhi. The meeting was presided over by Union home minister P Chidambaram. The CM said the extension of Delhi Metro from Mundka in Delhi to City Park at Bahadurgarh in Haryana is being taken up by the state government. The total length of the metro corridor is 11.182 kms.

According to Hooda, 4.9 km of the total length falls in Haryana and 6.3 falls in Delhi. Hooda said that as per the updated DPR, the total cost of Haryana portion is estimated at Rs 902 crore and the state will be sharing the shortfall, if any, up to Rs. 152 crore.

For the ambitious project the state government has pledged to provide 10 hectare of land for development of the depot in Bahadurgarh as a component of property development.

During the meeting, Hooda also asked the central government to expedite the project. Hooda also said that the work on Faridabad metro section has started and it is expected to become operational by August, 2014. On the construction of 135 km long Western Peripheral Expressway, also known as the Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway Project, Hooda said: "We have been monitoring the progress and pursuing the matter with the Concessionaire to expedite the project. The Manesar Palwal section is expected to be ready in the next three-four months."

Cash crunch over, May deadline for Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway

Cash crunch over, May deadline for Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway

 Jun 9, 2012,

NEW DELHI: The Haryana and Delhi governments have set next May as the new deadline for completing the 135km Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway. The road, which is 50% of the ring expressway coming up around Delhi, was planned to take the heavy vehicles load off Delhi roads.

After a two-hour meeting with the private developer KMP Expressway Ltd on Friday, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit and her Haryana counterpart Bhupinder Singh Hooda claimed that all issues had been resolved. They said the developer had faced financial crunch, slowing down the project, but the problem had been solved.

The Haryana government, which awarded the project in 2006, earlier fixed December 2010 as the deadline but only 60% of the work has been completed.

The developer has now been asked to open the "priority stretch" of the expressway between Palwal and Manesar by mid-September or mid-October. A senior official who attended the meeting said Haryana had warned the developer that the contract would be terminated if it failed to meet the May 2013 deadline.

The meeting, which was held at the Delhi secretariat, was also attended by the Supreme Court-appointed Environmental Protection and Conservation Authority chairman, Bhure Lal, who is monitoring the ring expressway projects.

The developer's financial crunch was the main reason behind the delay, both CMs said, adding that the private player claimed that it now has enough finances to expedite the work.

The Delhi and Haryana governments, however, failed to sort out the issue of sharing the land acquisition cost for the project, sources said.

Due to the delays in the land acquisition, the liability on the Delhi government has increased to Rs 1,110 crore against the original estimate of Rs 167 crore. "The Delhi government can't be made to pay for this high escalation just on the ground that this expressway will reduce environmental pollution. There will be another round of meeting at the chief-secretary level where Haryana will submit how much land it acquired only for the road. How can huge public exchequer be doled out to Haryana when this project will bring huge economic prosperity only to Haryana?" asked a source in the Delhi government.

He added that though SC had fixed the criteria of sharing the acquisition cost, Delhi could not be made to take the burden of Haryana's inefficiencies.

The expressway will connect NH-1 at Kundli and NH-2 at Faridabad via NH-10 and NH-8.

DISTANCE FROM BAHADURGARH

                 DISTANCE FROM BAHADURGARH

                  Sonepat                       39.0 Kms

                  Rohad       13.5 Kms

                  Sampla                        19.0 Kms

                  Rohtak                        40.0 Kms

                  Jhajar 30.0 kms

                 Badli 20.0 Kms

                 Reliance SEZ 26.0 Kms

                 Gurgaon                       25.0 Kms

                 Najafgarh 10.0 Kms 

                 Indra Gandhi Airport 29.0 Kms

                 Nangloi                         13.0 Kms

                 Peeragarhi Chowk 15.5 Kms 

                 Punjabi Bagh Ring Road 20.0 Kms

KMP corridor in Haryana to have orbital rail, tech hubs

KMP corridor in Haryana to have orbital rail, tech hubs

1 May, 2012, 

CHANDIGARH: The Kundli-Manesar-Palwal global corridor (KMP) in Haryana will have orbital railway and 12 specialized hubs including world trade, fashion, entertainment, leisure and dry ports. 

The development plan of the KMP global corridor was approved at the meeting of the State Level Committee which was chaired by Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda here today. 

The KMP Corridor passes through districts of Palwal, Faridabad, Mewat, Gurgaon, Rohtak, Jhajjar and Sonipat of the state. 

Twelve specialised hubs including world trade, fashion, entertainment, leather, leisure, education, cyber, sports, medi hub, bio-science and dry port hubs would be developed along the KMP Expressway, an official spokesman said here.

The width of the Expressway Amenities Zone would be one kilometre and the remaining area would be kept as agriculture zone. 

As per the plan approved, the Right of Way (ROW) of Expressway would be 100 meters with green belt of 100 meters on either sides and 50 meter wide orbital rail corridor on Delhi side. 

The Committee approved the Entertainment Hub, World Trade Hub and Fashion Hub would be set up in district Gurgaon. 

The Entertainment Hub would be a technological cutting- edge entertainment sector set up over an area of 140 hectares. It would have hotels, motels, restaurants, shopping malls, multiplexes, concerts, music halls, night clubs and show theatres along with rapid transit facilities, the spokesman said.

Haryana decides penalty, orders completion of KMP by December 2012 -end

Haryana decides penalty, orders completion by December-end

MUKESH BHARDWAJ Posted: Apr 20, 2012 at 0326 hrs
Chandigarh Irked by the long delay in the construction of the much touted Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway, which was scheduled for completion by July, 2009 after construction commenced in July, 2006, the Haryana government has now put its foot down and has asked the concessionaire to complete the work by the year-end.

It has also asked it to start the Manesar-Palwal section by April 15 as per the revised programme after a recent inspection conducted by Rajiv Arora, Managing Director of Haryana Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) — the executing agency for the project.

Taking a serious view of the slow progress of the expressway, the government has decided to take action against the concessionaire by imposing penalties for the delay at the rate of 0.01 per cent of the total project cost per week or part thereof in accordance with the provisions under the agreement.

Defaulting “External Development Charges (EDC)” Colonizers to face imprisonment

Defaulting “External Development Charges (EDC)” Colonizers to face

imprisonmentCHANDIGARH: Shocked over arrears of more than Rs 3,500 crore, Haryana government has finally woken up against colonizers who defaulted in payment of External Development Charges (EDC) and other levies to the town and country planning department (T&CP).
Courtesy an amendment made in the Haryana development and Regulation of Urban Areas Act 1975, the defaulting colonizers are now faced with civil imprisonment till the outstanding arrears are cleared. The amendment approved by Haryana governor on Monday is expected to be notified by Friday, officials in T&CP department said. Around 150 colonizers across the state are from the National Capital Region (NCR) of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Sonipat, Rohtak and Palwal, officials said.
Besides citing the huge amount being shown as outstanding arrears accumulated over the past two decades, officials reason the move, initiated after 35 years of enactment of the Act, as measure taken by Haryana government to keep a check on private colonizers who would generally escape the liability after paying a partial amount as EDC and other levies.

Plan panel tweaks toll to favor developer

Plan panel tweaks toll to favor developer .

Wednesday, 21 March 2012 00:27 J Gopikrishnan New Delhi.

Ignoring the directions of Supreme Court’s Monitoring Committee and overruling strong objections from Planning Commission Members, the plan panel has approved a 1.5-time increase in toll rates for Eastern Peripheral Expressway.The implementing agency of WPE, also known as KMP (Kundli-Manesar-Palwal) is the Haryana Government-run HSIIDC. The developer of this expressway is DSC Limited, owned by HS Narula and MS Narula. The construction started on 2007 and was supposed to be completed by 2010. But till date only 60 per cent of work has been completed, and it may take three more years for fruition. The toll rate of a car fixed for WPE is Rs 170.

Improvement by Widening and Strengthening of NH 10 in Bahadurgarh

Improvement by Widening and Strengthening of NH 10 in Bahadurgarh

Financial / Price-Bid was opened on Nov 14, 2011 for “Improvement by Widening and Strengthening of NH-10 from Km. 31.200 (Start of Northern Bypass, Sector 9) to 39.900 (End of Northern Bypass, Near Village Jakhoda) in Bahadurgarh town” Total length of road to be converted to two ways 8.7 Kms.

Contract includes installation of 180 Electric Light poles.

Widening (Two ways road) will be completed in 18 months i.e. by June 2013 at Estimated Value of Rs 3169.44 lacs.

NCR Constituent Areas

NCR Constituent Areas

National Capital Region (NCR) is one of the first experimented Regions of the country. It is a unique example for inter-state regional development planning for a region with Nation Capital as its core. The National Capital Region as notified covers an area of about 33,578 sq kms falling in the territorial jurisdictions of four State Governments namely, National Capital Territory of Delhi, Haryana, UP, and Rajasthan. It is one of the largest National Capital Region of the World and constitutes about 1.60% of the country’s land area, about 86% of the total area of Kerala State and its area is more than the combined area of three States of Tripura, Nagaland and Sikkim.
NCR is characterized by the presence of highly ecologically sensitive areas like extension of Aravalli ridge, Forests, Wild life and Bird sanctuaries, rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Hindon, fertile cultivated and is a dynamic rural-urban region being the home of 371 lakhs people living in 108 towns of which 17 are class I cities and more than 7500 rural settlements.
The four constituent Sub-Regions of NCR are given below:
1) The Haryana Sub-Region comprises of nine districts, that is, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Mewat, Rohtak, Sonepat, Rewari, Jhajjhar (Bhadurgarh), Panipat and Palwal together constituting about 40% (13,413 sq. kms.) of the Region;
2) The Uttar Pradesh Sub-Region comprises of five districts, that is, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Gautam Budha Nagar, Bulandshahr, and Baghpat together constituting about 32% ( 10,853 sq. kms.) of the Region;
3) The Rajasthan Sub-Region comprises of Alwar district constituting about 23% (7,829 sq. kms.) of the Region ; &
4) The NCT of Delhi constituting about 5% (1,483 sq. kms.) of the Region.

KMP E-WAY DELAY: BANKS THREATEN ACTION

KMP e-way delay: Banks threaten action

GURGAON, 2011-08-30: The KMP Expressway project seems to be heading for bigger trouble with the latest August-end deadline set to be missed again. The consortium of 11 banks for this project has written to the Haryana government that action might be initiated against the concessionaire if it doesn't expedite the work. According to the concessionaire, the 53-km "priority stretch" between Manesar and Palwal will now be completed by November. This is the 12th deadline for the first stretch. However, looking at the progress, officials in the Haryana government feel that even if construction is put in top gear, the first phase might get completed only by December. The unprecedented delays and innumerable missed deadlines despite the state and the client - the Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) - extending all possible support have caused worry for the bankers. It is equally bad for the private developer - KMP Expressway Ltd, a subsidiary of DSC Ltd. According to estimates, the concessionaire is incurring a daily loss of several lakhs on account of interest during construction (IDC). Moreover, the delays could push the project cost to Rs 3,000 crore by 2013. The present cost is about Rs 2,000 crore. The concessionaire is also facing problems on the ground because of issues related to non-payment of bills to its contractors and their sub-contractors for a few months now. Also, several minor and major structures are yet to be completed all along the 53-km stretch. About the reasons behind the delays, the concessionaire said that these were primarily due to "certain clearances from third parties like the IOCL for pipeline clearances, local agitation from villagers wanting additional structures (beyond the original scope), finalization of the change of scope items and the heavy monsoons". It also said, "With all the clearances more or less under control and the monsoon abating we are quite confident of making the stretch between Manesar and Palwal trafficable by end October/ early November..."According to DSC Ltd, delays will only adversely affect their revenues since the project had been awarded to them on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis for 33 years. "As a concessionaire operating on a BOT basis it is in our interest that the project gets completed on time or with minimum delay, as delays lead to additional fixed overheads, interest on loans, depreciation of plant and equipment and loss of toll revenues. Due to certain issues which are being solved there is a slight delay in starting the stretch between Manesar and Palwal," said a spokesperson.According to the Gurgaon deputy commissioner, P C Meena, the concessionaire has promised speedy action in the coming days. "We are keeping a tab on their promised progress. The district administration has decided to write to the state to initiate strict action if they fail to live up to the expectations," said Meena. The project has been planned on a unique and first-of-its kind closed-loop tolling system, wherein the user pays toll as per the distance used/ covered on the expressway. The toll rates fixed in June 2010 show that while cars would have to pay about Rs 0.75/km, light motor vehicles would pay Rs 1.25/km. Light commercial vehicles would be charged Rs 2.60/km and multi-axle vehicles including buses and trucks would have to pay Rs 4.15/ km. The concessionaire said that the toll rates would be fixed only at the time of completion. This could, in other terms, mean that in order to incur losses, the prices could be escalated (according to NHAI rates) to cover the time lost in completion by the concessionaire.