Lok Sabha Question No. 2258 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-08
Subject: Rural Road Connectivity
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: KANWAR SINGH TANWAR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2258

TO BE ANSWERED ON 08.03.2018

## RURAL ROAD CONNECTIVITY

## 2258.   SHRI KANWAR SINGH TANWAR:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state

- (a) whether  many  villages  in  our  country  get  cut  off  from  main  roads  and  can  not  be reached during the rainy season and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the  Government has any list of such  villages  and if  so,  the  details  thereof, State-wise;
- (c) whether  the  Government  proposes  to  construct  all  weather  roads  so  as  to  connect these villages with main roads and if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) the details of efforts made in the State of Uttar Pradesh during the last three years and the current year in this regard?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## (SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV)

(a) to (c): 'Rural  Roads'  is  a  State  subject  and  Pradhan  Mantri  Gram  SadakYojana (PMGSY) is a one-time special intervention of Government of India to provide connectivity by  way  of  a  single  All-Weather  road,  to  the  eligible  unconnected  habitations  as  per  CoreNetwork with a population of 500 persons (as per 2001 Census) and above in plain areas. In respect  of  'Special  Category  States'  (States  of  the  North-East,  Sikkim,  Himachal  Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand), the Desert areas, the Tribal (Schedule V) areas and 88 Selected Tribal and Backward districts (Integrated Action Plan-IAP districts), as identified by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the objective is to connect eligible unconnected habitations as per Core-Network with a population of 250 persons and above (Census 2001). The unit for the programme is Habitation and not revenue village.

Under  PMGSY,  against  1,78,184  eligible  unconnected  habitations  in the core network, 1,62,617 habitations have been sanctioned by the Ministry and 1,30,415 habitations have  been  connected  by  the  States  (uptoJanuary  2018).  State  wise  status  of  eligible habitations its connectivity is placed at Annexure.

- (d): The status of implementation of PMGSY in Uttar Pradesh during the last three years and current year as reported by the State is as under: -

| Year                        |   2014-15 |   2015-16 |   2016-17 |   2017-18 (UptoJanuar y,2018) |
|-----------------------------|-----------|-----------|-----------|-------------------------------|
| Length constructed (km)     |   2000.34 |   5032.15 |   3095.25 |                       1964.03 |
| Habitations connected (No.) |      0    |     99    |    147    |                         33    |

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Annexure Annexure referred to Paras (a) to (c) in reply of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No 2258 to be answered on 8.03.2018

## Upto January 2018

|   S. No. | State             |   Eligible Habitations |   Habitations sanctioned |   Habitations connected |
|----------|-------------------|------------------------|--------------------------|-------------------------|
|        1 | 2                 |                      3 |                        4 |                       5 |
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh    |                   4819 |                     1161 |                    1059 |
|        2 | Telangana         |                   4819 |                      776 |                     608 |
|        3 | Arunachal Pradesh |                    931 |                      403 |                     368 |
|        4 | Assam             |                  12205 |                    13045 |                    9387 |
|        5 | Bihar(RWD& NEA)   |                  24804 |                    30882 |                   21182 |
|        6 | Chhattisgarh      |                  10763 |                    10114 |                    8769 |
|        7 | Goa               |                     20 |                        2 |                       2 |
|        8 | Gujarat           |                   3387 |                     3059 |                    3021 |
|        9 | Haryana           |                      1 |                        1 |                       1 |
|       10 | Himachal Pradesh  |                   3725 |                     2440 |                    2143 |
|       11 | Jammu &Kashmir    |                   3892 |                     2202 |                    1480 |
|       12 | Jharkhand         |                  11613 |                     9571 |                    7790 |
|       13 | Karnataka         |                   1766 |                      297 |                     296 |
|       14 | Kerala            |                    435 |                      435 |                     380 |
|       15 | Madhya Pradesh    |                  21168 |                    18238 |                   15890 |
|       16 | Maharashtra       |                   2159 |                     1365 |                    1282 |
|       17 | Manipur           |                   1023 |                      611 |                     472 |
|       18 | Meghalaya         |                    793 |                      498 |                     243 |
|       19 | Mizoram           |                    246 |                      183 |                     157 |
|       20 | Nagaland          |                    191 |                       97 |                      94 |
|       21 | Odisha            |                  22211 |                    15086 |                   13059 |
|       22 | Punjab            |                    441 |                      390 |                     390 |
|       23 | Rajasthan         |                  16801 |                    16229 |                   13734 |
|       24 | Sikkim            |                    366 |                      369 |                     283 |
|       25 | Tamil Nadu        |                   2203 |                     1986 |                    1979 |

| 26           | Tripura       |   1731 |   1898 |   1787 |
|--------------|---------------|--------|--------|--------|
| 27           | Uttar Pradesh |  13984 |  11623 |  11228 |
| 28           | Uttarakhand   |   2684 |   1541 |   1011 |
| 29           | West Bengal   |  13822 |  18115 |  12320 |
| Grand Total: | Grand Total:  | 178184 | 162617 | 130415 |