Lok Sabha Question No. 168 (STARRED), answered on 2017-07-27
Subject: Monitoring of PMGSY
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI

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

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 168

TO BE ANSWERED ON 27.07.2017

## MONITORING OF PMGSY

## *168. SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  intends  to  use  Remote  Sensing  and  Geographical Information System in planning and monitoring of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) and if so, the details thereof along with the time line for th same and if not, the reasons therefor;
- (b) whether  the  Government  also  proposes  to  use  non - conventional  materials/green technology for cost and time saving in road building and if so, the details there
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  launched  any  Mobile Application  based  Quality Monitoring System for transparent public grievance redressal and Social Audit o PMGSY; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR )

( a) to ( d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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## Statement referred to in reply to Parts (a) to (d) of Lok Sa bha Starred Question No. 168 for answer on 27.07.2017

(a) : A need was felt to create a mechanism to detect the variance between the physica progress of implementation of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) scheme and the  progress  reported  electronically,  on  the  Scheme  MIS,  i.e.  OMMAS,  by  the  States Accordingly, a Tripartite Agreement was signed on 07.03.2017 between National Rural Roads DevelopmentAgency(NRRDA), Ministry of Rural Development, National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC), ISRO, Hyderabad and Centre for Geo -Informatics Application in Rural Development (CGARD) of National Institute of Rural Development & Panchayati Raj, Hyderabad to use geo - informatics and satellite imagery, on a real time basis, to verif the  progress  of  implementation  as  reported  electronically  by  the  States.  This  Tripa Agreement envisages upscaling the use of the Geo -Informatics in all the districts of the country by engaging the services of NRSC and CGARD, Hyderabad.  The project is to be executed initially for two years. This follows the successful completion of the pilot undertaken in association with CGARD, in selected 10 districts of 5 States (i.e., Kam and Darrang in Assam, Raigarh and Korba in Chhattisgrah, Puri and Nayagarh in Odisha, Jaipur and Alwar in Rajasthan and Nalgonda and Karimnagar districts in Telangana).

(b) : In order to promote use of non conventional construction materials, environment f riendly  and  fast  construction  technologies  in  the  construction  of  rural  roads  u PMGSY, NRRDA has issued 'Guidelines on Technology  Initiatives',  to  all  States.  The States are required to propose at least 10% of the length of annual proposals using a f the  new  technologies,  for  which  specifications  of  Indian  Roads  Congress  (IRC)  ar available and an additional length of at least 5% of the length of the annual proposal any of the new technologies for which specifications of Indian Roads Congress a re not available, but the technologies/materials have been accredited by IRC. Further, the S are  required  to  adopt  the  recommendations  of  the  Expert  Group,  constituted  by  th Ministry of Rural Development for achieving economy in construction of Rural Roads under PMGSY. The above two measures have facilitated construction of cost effective and environment  friendly rural  roads.  These  cost  effective  and  environment  friendl technologies/materials include - wast plastic, flyash, iron & copper slag, natural geotextiles, cold mix gabions and bio - engineering for hill  slopes stabilization, cell fille concrete, etc. In the first 14 years of PMGSY (from 2000 - 2014), 806.93 km of road was constructed using such technologies. During the period 2014 - 15 to 2015 - 16, 2,634.02 km of  road  using  these  technologies/materials  were  constructed  and  in  2016 - 17  a  total  of 4,113.13 km of such roads have been constructed under PMGSY.

(c) & (d) : A bilingual  (Hindi  &  English)  Mobile  App  called  ' Meri Sadak '  (latest version  '4.0.0')  was  launched  on  20 th July,  2015  for  Citizens  Feedback  System  for PMGSY Roads. Meri Sadak is a mobile application for citizens to enable them to submit their  feedback  and  complaints  related  to  slow  pace  of  works,  abandoned  works,  poor quality of works, etc., of any PMGSY roads .The State Quality Coordinator (SQC), in each State, has been designated as the Nodal Officer to handle and redress such grievances. Nodal Officers are required to provide an interim reply to the citizen within 7 days the receipt of the feedbacks. A final Action Taken Report is required to be submitted to the citizen within a period of 60 days.

Since the launch of Meri Sadak this App. has witnessed 7,30,000 number of downloads til 24 th July, 2017.  A total of 64,035 complaints have been registe red on the Mobile App, out of which final replies are pending only in 24 cases.