Instructions from the Planning Department to District authorities to take into account critical and important components while preparing Detailed Project Reports (DPR) is a good though belated exercise. We have been often drawing attention of the authorities that the projects undertaken lack some of the essential and critical components and this makes their utilization a farce. If a bridge is constructed at considerable cost and time, but the connecting roads are not there, what purpose does it serve? Likewise if structures are raised for schools, hospitals or office but lack proper sanitary facilities, connectivity, proper electrification etc. the effort is not worth making. What actually happens is that a project is completed and handed over but the critical components are not taken care of. This has been the reason why the Planning Department had to issue guidelines to Administrative Secretaries and Divisional Commissioners to ensure that whenever new projects are worked out, they accompany the critical and important components also. It is generally found that the main cause of delay in making the projects functional is avoidance of critical components in the original plan. It is but natural that cost of completion of the project will escalate and then other problems follow.
We consider it a right step on the part of the Planning Commission to alert the District level authorities that they should not fail to make a comprehensive plan of development in their respective districts. We would like to suggest that before according formal sanction to any DPR, the officials of the Department of Planning could think of obtaining a no objection certificate from the concerned departments who are the stakeholders in the project under consideration. This would save the hassles of resolving obstructions and objections when the project is actually executed on the ground.
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