Writeup AP 2011-12 - Punjab State Planning Board

parks one on 1350 acres at Rajpura and another on 226 acres of land at village Jhall
Thikriwala in district Kapurthala.
INFRASTRUCTURE
74. To fill the infrastructure gaps in roads, airports, drinking water, health
services, education, sewerage etc. is a gigantic task, involving huge investments. It is not
possible to fully provide for infrastructure development out of the limited resources of the
state. It is, therefore, important to attract private investment into infrastructure development.
Punjab Infrastructure Development Board (PIDB) was set up in 1998 under the Punjab
Infrastructure Development Ordinance, 1998. This was replaced by a comprehensive Punjab
Infrastructure Development and Regulation Act, 2002 .Punjab Infrastructure Regulatory
Authority (PIRA) has recently been set up. Punjab Infrastructure Development Board (PIDB)
is funded by infrastructure fee of 2% on agricultural produce except fruit and vegetables and
Rs. 1 on every liter of petrol. The Punjab Infrastructure Development Board 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.
75. Punjab Infrastructure Development Board invested Rs. 789.92 crore (Rs.
410.69 crore under extra budgetary head and Rs. 379.23 crore under budgetary head) during
2009-10 for facilitating and financing investments in irrigation, roads, urban development,
medical education and other important sectors. There is an expenditure of Rs. 1000 crore
during 2010-11.
76. A sum of Rs. 916 crore has been provided in the year 2011-12 by the PIDB
for creation of infrastructure for the following projects :-
• Road Sector- southern bye-pass at Ludhiana/road along Sichuan 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 Road Over Bridges (RoBs) and 20 new Road
Over Bridges (RoBs) and 5 ongoing High Level Bridges (HLB’s).
• Education & health sector- construction of Govt. medical college and associated
hospital at Amritsar, construction of buildings/campus at Baba Farid University for
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