Lok Sabha Question No. 2842 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-01-04
Subject: Progress of Rural Road Construction
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Tejpratap Singh,Yadav, B. SREERAMULU, ANJU BALA

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

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2842

TO BE ANSWERED ON 04.01.2018

## PROGRESS OF RURAL ROAD CONSTRUCTION

## 2842.   SHRI TEJ PRATAP SINGH YADAV: SHRI B. SRIRAMULU: SHRIMATI ANJU BALA:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has fixed a target to provide all weather connectivity to all the habitations by March 2019 and if so, the details thereof;
- (b) whether the Government has achieved the target for construction of 7000 KM of roads in various  States  under  Pradhan  Mantri  Gram  Sadak  Yojana (PMGSY)  in  2017-18  and  if  so,  the  details  thereof  and  if  not,  the  reasons therefor;
- (c) whether the National Rural Road Development Agency (NRRDA) has done an exercise  to  determine  the  road  works  pending  for  execution  along  with  the average cost of construction per kilometer of road and the funds available with the State Governments etc. and if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
- (d) whether the NRRDA is regularly reviewing the progress of road construction through GPS monitoring and if so, the details thereof; and
- (e) the other steps taken by the Government for the overall development of rural roads in the country?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV)

(a): The Government of India has taken a decision to accelerate execution of all-weather road  connectivity  to eligible habitations  thereby  substantially  complete  the  habitation connectivity as per the Core Network of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) by March, 2019. Under PMGSY, the number of eligible habitations as per the Core Network is 1,78,184, out of which, the Ministry has sanctioned 1,64,547 habitations and the States have reported  to  have  completed  1,  30,974  (upto  November,  2017).  Further,  the  States  have reported  that  14,620    habitations,  which  were  part  of  core  network  of  PMGSY, have  been connected through State Sponsored Schemes making total connectivity to 1,45,594 habitations.

(b): Under  PMGSY,  the  Ministry  of  Rural  Development  has  fixed  the  target  for construction  of    57,000  Km  road  length  during  2017-18,    against  which,  the  States  have reported to have completed 19,948 Km road length upto November, 2017.

(c): National Rural Road Development Agency (NRRDA), which is technical arm of the Ministry,  is  primarily  responsible  for  providing  Operational  and  Management  support  to PMGSY.  For  accelerated  execution  of  PMGSY,  the  Ministry  of  Rural  Development  in consultation with the Ministry of Finance and the States have formulated an Action Plan to pre-pone completion target of the Scheme from March, 2022 to March, 2019, with enhanced financial allocation to the States and modified funding pattern. Accordingly, the fund sharing pattern of PMGSY has been made in the ratio of 60:40 between the Centre and States for all States except for 8 North Eastern and 3 Himalayan States for which it is 90:10.  In view of the availability of substantial additional allocation of funds under the Scheme, the States were advised to submit new proposals for sanctioning the projects to provide connectivity to the balance eligible unconnected habitations under PMGSY so that the completion target set by the Ministry is substantially achieved.

Annual  allocation  of  funds  under  PMGSY  to  the  States  is  made  on  the  basis  of  funds availability, execution capacity, works under execution, etc. The details regarding number of works  under  execution  and  the  funds  released  to  the  States  during  the  2017-18  31 st December, 2017 ( State-wise) are given at Annexure .

(d) to (e): The  progress  of  construction  of  rural  roads  under  PMGSY  is  regularly monitored by way of Regional Review Meetings (RRMs) with the respective States. Further, for effective monitoring of road works constructed under PMGSY, an On-line Management, Monitoring and Accounting System (OMMAS) (www.omms.nic.in) has also been developed. Further,  a  Tripartite  Agreement  was  signed  on  07.03.2017  between  National  Rural  Roads Development Agency (NRRDA), Ministry of Rural Development, National Remote Sensing Centre  (NRSC),  Indian  Space  Research  Organization,  Hyderabad  and  Centre  for  Geoinformatics  Application  in  Rural  Development  (CGARD),  National  Institute  of  Rural Development  and  Panchayati  Raj,  Hyderabad  for  implementation  of  Geo-Informatics  in Rural Road Projects under PMGSY using satellite imagery.

In order to bring the execution of PMGSY works to the desired quality standard, a three tier quality  management  mechanism  has  been  institutionalized.    Under  the  first  tier,  the Programme  Implementation  Units  (PIUs)  are  required  to  ensure  process  control  through mandatory  tests  on  material  and  workmanship  at  field  laboratory.    The  second  tier  is  a structured independent quality monitoring at the State level through State Quality Monitors (SQMs) to ensure that every work is inspected at initial stage, middle stage and final stage of the construction.  Under the third tier, independent National Quality Monitors (NQMs) are deployed  for  random  inspection  of  road  works  to  monitor  quality  and  also  to  provide guidance of senior professionals to the field functionaries. Based on the periodic monitoring of quality of roads under the 3-tier mechanism, corrective measures, wherever necessary, are taken by the State Governments. Ministry has also launched 'Meri Sadak' Mobile App for Citizen Feed Back System for PMGSY roads on 20 th July, 2015 for citizens to enable them to submit  their  feedback  related  to  slow  pace,  abandoned  works,  poor  quality  of  works  of PMGSY roads by way of capturing roads/bridges photographs.

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ANNEXURE Annexure referred to in part (c) of reply to Lok Sabha Unstarred Question no. 2842

|   Sr.No. | State             | No. of road and bridge works pending   | Length in km   |   Funds Released during the year 2017-18 till 31 st December, 2017 (Rs. in crore) |
|----------|-------------------|----------------------------------------|----------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|        1 | Andhra Pradesh    | 350                                    | 891.66         |                                                                          79.62    |
|        2 | Arunachal Pradesh | 358                                    | 2,187.45       |                                                                         348.454   |
|        3 | Assam             | 3,898                                  | 8,704.71       |                                                                         575.576   |
|        4 | Bihar             | 3,729                                  | 7,487.76       |                                                                        1337.75    |
|        5 | Chhattisgarh      | 1,069                                  | 6,309.15       |                                                                         429.709   |
|        6 | Goa               | 20                                     | 26.89          |                                                                           0       |
|        7 | Gujarat           | 41                                     | 43.25          |                                                                           0       |
|        8 | Haryana           | 2                                      | 8.98           |                                                                           0       |
|        9 | Himachal Pradesh  | 859                                    | 4,253.38       |                                                                         244.635   |
|       10 | Jammu And Kashmir | 1,044                                  | 5,508.13       |                                                                         319.375   |
|       11 | Jharkhand         | 1,958                                  | 5,613.19       |                                                                         543.62    |
|       12 | Karnataka         | 8                                      | 18.03          |                                                                           1.51678 |
|       13 | Kerala            | 259                                    | 809.03         |                                                                         169.13    |
|       14 | Madhya Pradesh    | 2,283                                  | 5,955.02       |                                                                        1031.65    |
|       15 | Maharashtra       | 265                                    | 844.18         |                                                                         155.33    |
|       16 | Manipur           | 574                                    | 3,750.22       |                                                                         142.715   |
|       17 | Meghalaya         | 285                                    | 866.28         |                                                                          45.682   |
|       18 | Mizoram           | 77                                     | 819.48         |                                                                         197.231   |
|       19 | Nagaland          | 38                                     | 402.50         |                                                                           8.7975  |
|       20 | Odisha            | 4,517                                  | 14,983.67      |                                                                        1538.18    |
|       21 | Punjab            | 91                                     | 439.41         |                                                                         318.73    |

| 22   | Rajasthan     | 673    | 4,066.22   |   889.8983000 |
|------|---------------|--------|------------|---------------|
| 23   | Sikkim        | 335    | 1,335.69   |      237      |
| 24   | Tamilnadu     | 1,031  | 3,113.63   |      591.07   |
| 25   | Telangana     | 394    | 582.09     |       99.2163 |
| 26   | Tripura       | 256    | 793.38     |      135.384  |
| 27   | Uttar Pradesh | 1,132  | 5,217.74   |      906.74   |
| 28   | Uttarakhand   | 527    | 3,456.30   |      486.31   |
| 29   | West Bengal   | 2,492  | 10,668.10  |      499.24   |
|      | Total         | 28,565 | 99,155.51  |    11332.6    |