Apart from the Hyderabad project, the public private partnership appraisal committee (PPPAC), which also chaired by the finance secretary, cleared a host of projects totalling to an investment of Rs 7,946 crore. These include 10 national highway projects; one tourism project and two non-metro airport projects at Udaipur and Amritsar. The 10 highway projects — totalling an investment of Rs 7,823 crore — include 4-laning Jorhat-Demow section in Assam (Rs 562 crore); 4-6 laning of Ghaziabad-Aligarh section(Rs 1325 crore); 4-6 laning of Amritsar-Pathankot section (Rs 704 crore); 4-laning the Bhuvaneshwar-Puri section (Rs 459 crore); 6-laning of Kishangarh-Ajmer-Beawar section (Rs 722 crore); 4-laning of Trichy-Karaikudi (Rs 804 crore); 4-laning of Karaikudi-Ramanathapuram section (Rs 599 crore); 4-laning of Baihata-Chariali-Tejpur section (Rs 1230 crore); 4-laning of Tirupati-Chennai section (Rs 802 crore) and 4-laning of Kudanpur-Suratkal section (Rs 616 crore). All these road projects would have to now be cleared by the CCEA before they are offered to bidders.