Lok Sabha Question No. 91 (STARRED), answered on 2017-12-21
Subject: Construction of Roads under PMGSY
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: HARISHCHANDRA DEORAM CHAVAN

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

## LOK SABHA

## STARRED QUESTION NO. 91

TO BE ANSWERED ON 21.12.2017

## CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS UNDER PMGSY

## *91. SHRI HARISHCHANDRA CHAVAN:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has considered construction of roads inside villages under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY);
- (b) if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) if not, the reasons therefor?

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

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

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## Statement referred to in reply to Parts (a) to (c) of Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 91  for answer on 21.12.2017

(a) to (c): Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY) is a Centrally sponsored scheme to provide all weather road access to eligible unconnected habitations in the  Core Network. 'Rural Roads' is a State subject and the works under PMGSY are executed through State Governments. Under PMGSY, the unit of programme is habitation. As per PMGSY guidelines, the alignment of the road should be extended upto the prominent point within a targeted habitation which could be  School,  Public  Health  Centre/Sub  Centre/Panchayat  Office,  Market  Centre  etc. Under PMGSY, the number of eligible unconnected habitations as per the Core Network is 1,78,184, out of which 1,64,547 habitations have been sanctioned road connectivity by the Ministry (till November,2017). The  States  have  reported  that  1,30,974  habitations  have  been  connected  by constructing/upgrading 5,23,172.522 Km  till November,2017.  The  State wise details of habitations connected and Road length constructed are given at Annexure-I.

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## Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) to (c) of Lok Sabha Starred Q. No. 91  for 21.12.2017

## Habitations eligible, sanctioned, connected and Road Length Constructed under PMGSY up to November,2017

| S.No.        | State(s)          |   Eligible Habitations |   Habitations cleared |   Habitations connected | Length Completed   |
|--------------|-------------------|------------------------|-----------------------|-------------------------|--------------------|
| 1            | 2                 |                      3 |                     4 |                       5 | 6                  |
| 1            | Andhra Pradesh    |                   1591 |                  1294 |                    1107 | 13,838.980         |
| 2            | Arunachal Pradesh |                    438 |                   403 |                     368 | 5,990.397          |
| 3            | Assam             |                  16026 |                 13045 |                    9387 | 16,601.857         |
| 4            | Bihar (RWD & NEA) |                  35496 |                 30696 |                   21182 | 44,641.294         |
| 5            | Chhattisgarh      |                  11108 |                 10133 |                    8788 | 27,215.644         |
| 6            | Goa               |                     20 |                     2 |                       2 | 155.330            |
| 7            | Gujarat           |                   3077 |                  3059 |                    3021 | 12,531.478         |
| 8            | Haryana           |                      1 |                     1 |                       1 | 5,573.512          |
| 9            | Himachal Pradesh  |                   3124 |                  2440 |                    2143 | 13,192.245         |
| 10           | Jammu &Kashmir    |                   2504 |                  2202 |                    1480 | 7,923.080          |
| 11           | Jharkhand         |                  13375 |                  9602 |                    7821 | 16,925.276         |
| 12           | Karnataka         |                    297 |                   297 |                     296 | 18,539.998         |
| 13           | Kerala            |                    435 |                   435 |                     380 | 2,948.460          |
| 14           | Madhya Pradesh    |                  18429 |                 18256 |                   15891 | 68,115.021         |
| 15           | Maharashtra       |                   1516 |                  1365 |                    1282 | 25,672.871         |
| 16           | Manipur           |                    654 |                   611 |                     472 | 5,811.095          |
| 17           | Meghalaya         |                    702 |                   498 |                     243 | 1,611.126          |
| 18           | Mizoram           |                    252 |                   183 |                     157 | 2,663.732          |
| 19           | Nagaland          |                    110 |                    97 |                      94 | 3,489.870          |
| 20           | Odisha            |                  17901 |                 16496 |                   13422 | 42,503.704         |
| 21           | Punjab            |                    397 |                   390 |                     390 | 7,808.850          |
| 22           | Rajasthan         |                  16570 |                 16530 |                   13734 | 63,289.631         |
| 23           | Sikkim            |                    366 |                   369 |                     283 | 3,404.173          |
| 24           | Tamil Nadu        |                   2004 |                  1986 |                    1979 | 14,588.160         |
| 25           | Telangana         |                    934 |                   883 |                     617 | 9,983.018          |
| 26           | Tripura           |                   1916 |                  1898 |                    1787 | 3,993.494          |
| 27           | Uttar Pradesh     |                  13452 |                 11623 |                   11228 | 51,788.331         |
| 28           | Uttarakhand       |                   2233 |                  1541 |                    1011 | 8,465.060          |
| 29           | West Bengal       |                  18671 |                 18212 |                   12408 | 23,906.835         |
| Grand Total: | Grand Total:      |                 178184 |                164547 |                  130974 | 523,172.522        |