REGISTERED No. D.(D)-72
The Gazette of India
EXTRAORDINARY
PART I—Section ]
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
No. 200] NEW DELHI, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23,1976/KARTTKA I, 1898
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MINISTRY OF SHIPPING AND TRANSPORT
(Roads Wing)
RESOLUTION
New Delhi, the 21st 0ctober 1976
No. PL-10(95)/76.—In then hundred and first deport on Border Roads, the Estimates Committee (1975-76) of the Fifth Lok Sabha recommended that a Master Plan for the construction of roads in each of the States in the border areas should be drawn up with proper perspective and priorities after a critical assessment in depth of the requirements for roads in each of the concerned States The Government of India have accepted this recommendation and have consequently decided to set up a Group for (his purpose with the following compositions:—
Chairman
1. Director General (Road Development) and Additional Secretary, Ministry of
Shipping and Transport, (Roads Wing).
Members
2. Joint Secretary, (dealing with Roads), Planning Commission. 3. Joint Secretary (N.E.) Ministry of Home Affairs, 4. Joint Secretary, Plan Finance, Ministry of Finance.
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6. Director, Military Operations, Army Headquarters,
7. Secretary, North Eastern Council, Shillong.
Member-Secretary
8. Secretary, Border Roads Development Board.
In addition, Chief Engineer, Planning (Roads Wing), Ministry of Shipping and Transport, would function as Joint Secretary of the Group.
2. The terms of reference of the Group will be as follows:—
(a) To evolve a Master Plan for the development of road communications in the Border States keeping in mind the requirement of State Governments, require- ment of National Highways, requirement for operational and strategic con- siderations, requirement for economic and industrial development and the special requirements of an area. The Master Plan would be a Perspective Plan of at least 15 years span and would also contain the programme that would be executed in the five years of the next Plan and in the subsequent Five Year Plans;
(b) Having evolved the said Master Plan, to indicate the roacW/Highways which would be developed in the State Plans and those roads/Highways which may be financed under the various Central Sector Schemes for road development; and
(c) Having indicated the programmes under which the various roads would be taken up, indicate the agency for execution of the various programmes keeping in mind that the Border Roads Organisation should be made the primary agency for execution of Central Sector Road Development Schemes.
3. The Headquarters of the Group will be at Delhi but it will be free to visit such places as it may consider necessary in connection with its work. The Central Government hope that the State Governments and T ocal Administrations concerned will afford the Group all assistance it may require and furnish any information which it may call for.
4. The Group will submit its report within a period of one year.
ORDER
Ordered that copies of the Resolution be communicated to all the Border States/Local Administrations, Planning Commission, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Finance (Plan Finance Division), Ministry of Defence, D.M.O., Army Headquarters, Secretary, North Eastern Council, Shillong and Secretary, Border Roads Development Board and also that it be published in the Gazette of India for general information.
J. S. MARYA,
Director General (Road Development) and Addl. Secy.
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