Writeup AP 2011-12 - Punjab State Planning Board

of 2% on agricultural produce except fruit and vegetables and Rs. 1 on every liter of petrol.
The PIDB has also been declared as a nodal agency for development of vacant and surplus
government lands under Optimum Utilisation of Vacant Government Lands(OUVGL)
scheme. Punjab Infrastructure Regulatory Authority (PIRA) has recently been set up.
8.4.2 Punjab Infrastructure Development Board spent Rs. 410.69 crore under extra
budgetary head and Rs. 379.23 crore under budgetary head i.e. total Rs. 789.92 crore during
2009-10 for facilitating and financing investments in irrigation, road, urban development,
medical education and other important sectors. During 2010-11, expenditure of PIDB is Rs.
1127.65 crore.
8.4.3 A sum of Rs. 916 crore has been proposed in the year 2011-12 by the PIDB
for creation of Infrastructure. The important projects are -
• Road Sector- Southern bye-pass at Ludhiana/road along Sidhwan canal, 4 laning of
Ropar-Nawanshehar-Phagwara Road, IIT Ropar (Phase-I), IIT Ropar (Phase-II),
approach road to Rajpura thermal power plant, Amritsar Ajnala road (NH-25), Amritsar
Tarn Taran Sarhali Harike road, 4 laning of road from Vallah Bye pass to NH-1 to NH-
15, Amritsar, construction of grade separator at Jamalpur chowk on Chandigarh road at
Ludhiana, 17 ongoing RoBs’ and 20 new RoB’s and 5 ongoing HLBs.
• Education & Health Sector- Construction of govt. medical college and associated
hospital at Amritsar, construction of buildings/campus at Baba Farid university for
health sciences at Faridkot, construction of hostel block in IIT Ropar, Girls college in
Jalalabad.
• Sports Sector- hockey stadium and multipurpose stadium at Amritsar and Gurdaspur.
• Tourism and Cultural Affairs- Infrastructure development of Khalsa Heritage Complex
at Anandpur Sahib.
• Water Supply and Sewerage- Water supply and sewerage schemes in Tarn Taran,
Gidderbaha, Patti, Sultanpur Lodhi and Amritsar. Water Supply schemes in villages of
Khadoor Sahib, Goindwal Sahib, Chola Sahib, Kiratpur Sahib, Dera Baba Nanak and
Chamakaur Sahib. Installation of reverse osmosis plants in 552 villages of 8 districts.
• Urban Development- various development works in Tarn Taran, Jalalabad, Jalandhar
and Amritsar.
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