The Public-Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC) in its 62nd Meeting recommended Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Projects worth Rs. 7595.19 crores while the Empowered Committee (EC) in its 19th Meeting approved Viability Gap Funding (VGF) of Rs. 1280.65 crores for PPP Projects. The Sixty-second (62nd) PPPAC meeting and 19th Meeting of the Empowered Committee (EC), both chaired by Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance met here yesterday. The Public-Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC) granted approval to five (5) projects of Ministry of Road Transport & Highways. The list of projects is given below. The estimated project cost of the approved projects is Rs. 7595.19 crore. Since its constitution in January 2006, the Public-Private Partnership Appraisal Committee (PPPAC) has approved 272 Central Sector Projects with TPC of Rs. 296579.6 crore. These include NHs (223 proposals), ports (32 proposals), airports (2 proposals), tourism infrastructure (1 proposal), housing (8 proposals) and sports stadia (5 proposals). In this year, till date, a total of 19 projects with total cost of Rs. 43903.30 crore have been approved by the PPPAC.

The 19th Meeting of the Empowered Committee (EC) chaired by Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs which also met here yesterday, accorded in-principle approval to four (4) projects including two (2) projects from Government of Maharashtra and two (2) projects of Government of Uttar Pradesh for Viability Gap Funding of Rs. 695.20 and final approval to two (2) projects from Uttar Pradesh For Viability Gap Funding of Rs. 585.45 The list of these projects is also given below.

Proposals granted PPPAC approval in its 62^nd Meeting :

No	Project	Sponsoring Authority	Length	TPC (Rs. Cr.)	VGF (Rs. Cr.)
1	Two laning with paved shoulder / Four laning of Tamil Nadu / Karnataka Border to Bangalore section of NH-209 from km 266.530 to km 458.52 in the State of Karnataka under NHDP Ph IV on DBFOT (Toll) basis	MoRTH	191.890	693.04	277.22
2	Four laning of Kazhakkuttam to Mukkola section in the State of Kerala	MoRTH	26.798	577.95	231.18
3	Two laning with paved shoulder of Jabalpur - Mandala - Chilpi section from km 3/4 to km 192.400 of NH-12A in the State of Madhya Pradesh on DBFOT basis under NHDP - IV	MoRTH	177.750	922.20	368.88
4	Four laning of Ambala - Kaithal section of NH-65 including Ambala Bypass in the State of Haryana on BOT (Toll) project on DBFOT (Toll) basis under NHDP Phase II	MoRTH	95.383	878.00	351.20
5	Estern Peripheral Expressway (NH No. NE-II)	MoRTH	134.946	4,524.00	1,809.60
	Total		626.77	7,595.19	3,038.08

 Proposals granted EC approval in its 19^th Meeting : 

 

Viability Gap Funding approved for multiple PPP infrastructure projects, enabling private concessions under DBFOT and BOT toll frameworks. The Public-Private Partnership Appraisal Committee recommended five MoRTH highway projects for DBFOT/BOT toll concessioning with a combined estimated cost of Rs. 7,595.19 crore. The Empowered Committee approved VGF support totalling Rs. 1,280.65 crore, providing final approvals for two Uttar Pradesh projects and in-principle approval for additional Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh road projects to enable private-sector participation under DBFOT/BOT frameworks.