Star of Mysore, in an article titled "Centre Says 'No' To Outer Ring Road Under JNNURM" reports that the project was planned to be taken up under JNNURM at a cost of Rs. 90.70 crores and a proposal to this effect was sent to the Centre for approval. The Centre has written a letter to resubmit the proposal with clarifications on some technical points and with regard to acquisition of land.
Syed Tanveeruddin, member, Mysore Grahakara Parishat writes,
Many of the statements in the article run contary to the statements of the Government. In response to my aaplication under Right to Information Act, Mr. Rajesh Jaiswal, Under Secretary (NURM-II) of the Ministry of Urban Development of the Government of India replied on 18-11-08 on the status of the JNNURM projects in Mysore. A scanned image of his letter is enclosed as five Attachments.
Syed Tanveeruddin, member, Mysore Grahakara Parishat writes,
Many of the statements in the article run contary to the statements of the Government. In response to my aaplication under Right to Information Act, Mr. Rajesh Jaiswal, Under Secretary (NURM-II) of the Ministry of Urban Development of the Government of India replied on 18-11-08 on the status of the JNNURM projects in Mysore. A scanned image of his letter is enclosed as five Attachments.
According to the letter of the Under Secretary, the estimated cost of the Outer Ring Road Project as submitted originally was Rs. 90.70 crores. But the cost approved by the Ministry of Urban Development was Rs. 219.02 Crores, i.e., more than double the original proposal. The letter also says that Rs. 43.80 Crores HAVE BEEN ALREADY RELEASED.
Since Rs. 43.80 Crores have been already released for the project by 18-11-08 (the date of the MoUD letter), the statement that the Centre has said no to the project can not be correct.
The article in SOM states "The Centre in its letter dated Sept. 29 has informed that it is not possible to place the proposal before the CSMC as it is not of prominence under the National Urban Transport." This can not be true since according to the letter of MoUD, not only has the project been approved, more money than asked for has been approved and 25% of the approved money has already been released.
The article in SOM also states that KUIDFC has written a letter on 22-11-08 to the Centre and the DC has written on 10-12-08 to reconsider the proposal. This is strange since the money has already been released.