Guwahati: An Asian Development Bank (ADB) team will visit Assam in the third week of April to inspect the Assam Urban Infrastructure Investment Programme (AUIIP).
The bank had termed the project as the most challenging one in the South-Asian urban portfolio in February.
Official sources associated with the programme said, "The team will inspect the projects in the state. They decided to visit the state after we could not utilise the first part of the loan. Only a few days of the implementation period are left. After the visit, there may be a restructure of the loan. The ministry of finance has been looking into the matter."
The ADB has allotted $200 million for the programme, covering a water supply project here and drainage and solid waste management system in Dibrugarh.
The first first tranche ($51 million at present) was approved on November 18 of 2011. The period of the first tranche of the loan, will end on June 30 and only $16.2 million has been disbursed till December 31 last year.
The Assam government has requested the ADB to extend the time period up to three years and proposed to finished work of both first and second tranche at the same time, to which thr bank is yet to agree, sources said.
The loan for the programme will be reimbursed by the Centre (90 per cent) and the state government (10 per cent).
In the ADB-aided Guwahati water supply project, till March 29, there has been 43 per cent progress in the construction of water supply transmission main pipelines and allied work, 23.43 per cent progress in construction of a storage reservoir of various capacities at three locations, approach road and allied works, 13.41 per cent physical growth in construction of DTP drain, 13 per cent work in storm-water control, along with five to six percent work in the solid waste management project in Dibrugarh.
At present, there was no work under way in the construction of the reservoir in Hengerabari, Nabajyoti Nagar and Basistha here and storm-water control project in Dibrugarh, official sources said.
