Three months af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar launched the Re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion Blue­print, promis­ing 50,919 jobs, Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jer­lean John says as­pects of the project should be­gin by mid-year.

Speak­ing at a me­dia con­fer­ence at the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress head­quar­ters in Ch­agua­nas yes­ter­day, John said there have 965 ex­pres­sions of in­ter­est in the 129 projects list­ed in the plan.

John and oth­er Gov­ern­ment min­is­ters have vis­it­ed sev­er­al coun­tries since the launch in No­vem­ber last year. She said in­ter­ests came from Pe­ru, the US, Nether­lands, Chi­na, Bel­gium, South Africa, In­dia, Chi­na, France and the Unit­ed King­dom. Asked which en­ti­ties ex­pressed in­ter­est, John said she could not say.