Lok Sabha Question No. 1588 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-03-09
Subject: PMGSY in Jammu & Kashmir
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: MUZAFFAR HUSSAIN BAIG

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

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1588 TO BE ANSWERED ON 09.03.2017

## 'PMGSY in Jammu & Kashmir'

## 1588  SHRI MUZAFFAR HUSSAIN BAIG

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- a) the  number  of  villages  connected  under  the  Pradhan  Mantri  Gram  Sadak  Yojana (PMGSY) in Jammu & Kashmir during the last two years and the current year;
- b) the amount of funds allocated released and spent during the said period in Jammu  & Kashmir to these villages under Centrally Sponsored Schemes;
- c) whether  a  large  number  of  villages  are  not  connected  till  date  and  if  so,  the thereof; and
- d) the steps taken or proposed to be taken by t he Government to connect each and every village?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI NARENDER SINGH TOMAR)

(a) to (d)Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana ( PMGSY ) was launched in 2000 with the objective to provide a single all - weather road connectivity to all eligible unconnected habitations, existing in th Network, in rural areas of the country.  The programme envisages connecting all eligible uncon habitations with a population of 500 persons and above  (as per 2001 Census) in plain areas a persons  and  above  (as  per  2001  Census)  in    Special  Category  States  (Arunachal  Pradesh,  Ass Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand),  Tribal  (Schedule - V)  areas,  the  Desert  Areas    (as  identified  in  Desert  Development Programme)  and  in  Selected  Tribal  and  Backward  Districts  (as  identified  by  the  Ministry  of Affairs/Planning Commission). The P MGSY permits upgradation (to prescribed standards) of existing rural  roads  in  districts  where  all  the  eligible  habitations  of  the  designated  population  size provided all weather road connectivity. For most intensive IAP blocks as identified by th e Ministry of Home Affairs the unconnected habitations with population 100 and above (as per 2001 Census) would eligible to be covered under PMGSY.

Year- wise d etails  of the funds allocated, released, xp nditure and  habitations connected in Jammu & Ka shmirunder PMGSY are as under :

| Year                           |   Allocation (in crore) |   Release (in crore) |   Expenditure (in crore) |   Habitations connected(in no.) |
|--------------------------------|-------------------------|----------------------|--------------------------|---------------------------------|
| 2014- 15                       |                     424 |               416.6  |                   422.73 |                             108 |
| 2015- 16                       |                     488 |               488    |                   258.39 |                              53 |
| 2016- 17 (up to January, 2017) |                     786 |               384.76 |                   272.15 |                              62 |

For accelerated  execution  of  PMGSY  in  the  States,  the  Ministry  of  Rural  Development consultation with the Ministry of Finance and the State Governments, has formulated an A Plan to achieve the preponed targets of PMGSY - I by March, 2019, before the earl ier set target date of 2022. The fund sharing pattern of PMGSY has been made in the ratio of 60:40 between the Centre and the States for all States except for 8 North Eastern and 3 Him alayan States for which it is 90:10. A ll State governments have also formulated annual action plan to complete all sanctioned PMGSY road works within the stipulated time frame.

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