Sikkim Cabinet: Sanctions many projects

GANGTOK, January 14: The State cabinet which met yesterday at Tashiling Secretariat has sanctioned a sum of Rs. 1 crore for construction of ‘Soochna Bhavan’ at Sikkim Jewels Complex, Tadong against the total project cost of Rs. 4.27 crores.
The above sanctioned amount has been transferred to Building & Housing department, informs an IPR release.

The cabinet gave approval for development of 575 bedded multi-specialty hospital and to establish the Radiotherapy facilities at Sichey with other facilities like residential accommodation for doctors, beside sanction of Rs. 2.82 crores for first phase of work for construction of X-Ray block in PHEs. The Sikkim Health and Population policy was also approved.

The cabinet has sanctioned Rs. 20 lakhs to be released in first installment for providing river training work along the right/left bank of Rani Khola below Adampool, East Sikkim against the project cost of Rs. 205.78 lakhs.
The release informs that the cabinet sanctioned Rs. 29.36 lakhs and Rs. 68.63 lakhs for providing Post Matric and Pre-Matric scholarships to 1714 ST students & 79010 ST students respectively. It also sanctioned Rs. 3.84 crores for construction of DAC, Annexe Building at Pentok, Mangan, North Sikkim. An amount of Rs. 50 lakhs was also sanctioned under TSP and SCSP to implement various programmes under Sports & Youth Affairs department.

The cabinet also accorded approval for distribution of ‘TetraVermin’ bed with other inputs to 1519 ST beneficiaries under TSP at the cost of Rs. 110 lakhs under Horticulture department besides sanctioning Rs.60 lakhs under TSP and Rs. 28 lakhs under SCSP under IPR department.

An additional amount of Rs. 22.56 lakhs were also sanctioned for carpeting work along the approach road to Simik village, Km 1st & 2nd, in East Sikkim.
The cabinet also sanctioned Rs. 1111.76 lakhs to be transferred as second and final installment as grant in-aid for the year 2009-10 for Zilla and Gram panchayats and also approved construction of Panchayat Ghar at Luing.

The cabinet authorized Chokerling development and management committee Rabong, South Sikkim to implement the development of the pilgrimage and cultural center at the tentative project cost of Rs. 3296 lakhs and also sanctioned Rs. 900 lakhs for release on installments by the department. It also approved the proposal for acquisition of 0.3540 hectares of land at Kartok block and 0.7040 hectares of land at Dikling block under Pakyong sub division for construction of Greenfield airport.

The cabinet further approved the proposal for implementation of externally aided project- Vocational Training improvement project with the World Bank Assistance, upgradation of Government ITI at Rangpo at the total project cost of Rs. 215 lakhs.

It also sanctioned a sum of Rs.79.45 lakhs as an advance mobilization fund for construction of ‘Walk Through Aviary’ of Sidkeong Tulku Bird Park at Rabdentse and also sanctioned Rs. 293.25 lakhs for integrated forest protection scheme.
A sum of Rs. 10 crores have been sanctioned for implementation of different work components for 4th phase of Green Mission.

The cabinet decided to maintain status quo in respect of free supply of electricity up to 50 units to certain consumers in rural areas for domestic uses besides sanctioning Rs.45.35 lakhs for upgrading and re-modeling of existing distribution system of MG Marg, Gangtok, the release informs.

The cabinet decided to revive Sikkim Housing Development Board and sanctioned Rs. 36.87 lakhs towards consultancy fee. Sanction was also accorded for Rs.36.83 lakhs and Rs. 22.12 lakhs for procurement of pothole repairing machine and for construction of Green House at Damthang, South Sikkim respectively.

A sum of Rs. 1237.77 lakhs for beautification/upgradation and modernization of Tadong Bazar, Makha Bazar, Yangyang Bazar, Namthang Bazar, Kaluk and Rinchenpong Bazar was also sanctioned. The cabinet also sanctioned the revised proposal for upgradation and modernization of feeder of Selep Water treatment plant for Gangtok at the cost of Rs. 4.80 crores.

A sum of Rs. 220.75 crores for taking up 95 numbers of road works like carpeting and widening in 28 Assembly constituencies was also sanctioned by the cabinet. It also sanctioned Rs. 1.60 crores for construction of bridge at Ghanti Khola along Legship, Geyzing, Tashiding road in West Sikkim.

The cabinet also sanctioned Rs.1.60 crores for procurement of 2538 fire extinguishers for government schools and colleges. It also sanctioned Rs.35.16 crores for upgradation and related developmental work of Government Degree College at Tadong and Rs. 22.04 crores for construction of a polytechnic institute at Mangshila, North Sikkim.

The cabinet also sanctioned the revised estimate of Rs. 650.89 lakhs for construction of High Court building-phase II at Gangtok besides allocating Rs.3.52 crores for procurement of 7000 thousand DBC-LPG connections for distribution to 7000 beneficiaries. The proposal for creation of 2 posts of peons in the pay scale of Rs.5200-20200 was also approved by the cabinet. A sum of Rs. 328.46 lakhs for construction of Multi Purpose Cultural Complex at Gangtok was also sanctioned by the cabinet.

source: Sikkim express