Lok Sabha Question No. 53 (STARRED), answered on 2019-06-25
Subject: Construction of Roads under PMGSY
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Ashok Kumar Rawat

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

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 53

TO BE ANSWERED ON 25.06.2019

## CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS UNDER PMGSY

## *53. SHRI ASHOK KUMAR RAWAT:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Union  Government  has  identified  the  roads  for  construction  by  giving priority to the roads in the most backward areas in Mishrikh Parliamentary Constituency in Uttar Pradesh under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana(PMGSY);
- (b) if so, the details thereof; and
- (c) the time by which these roads are proposed to be constructed?

## 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. 53 due for answer on 25.06.2019

(a) to (c): Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) is a one-time special intervention to  provide rural connectivity, by way of a single all-weather road, to the eligible unconnected habitations in the core network with a population of 500 persons and above (Census 2001) in plain  areas.    In  respect  of  North  Eastern  States  (i.e.  Arunachal  Pradesh,  Assam,  Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura) and Hill States ( i.e. Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttarakhand), the Desert Areas (as identified in the Desert Development Programme),  the  Tribal  (Schedule  V)  areas  and  Selected  Tribal  and  Backward  Districts  (as identified by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the erstwhile Planning Commission), the objective  is  to  connect  eligible  unconnected  habitations  with  a  population  of  250  persons  and above  (Census  2001).    In  the  critical  267  Left  Wing  Extremism  (LWE)  affected  blocks  (as identified by MHA), additional relaxation has been given to connect habitations with population 100 persons and above (2001 census).

Further, the Government launched a new intervention in the scheme namely PMGSY-II in the year 2013-14 for consolidation of total 50,000 Km existing Rural Road Network to improve its overall efficiency as a provider of transportation services for people, goods and services.

The State of Uttar Pradesh has already been sanctioned its full entitlement under PMGSY-I and PMGSY-II.

The information in  respect  of  PMGSY  roads  are  maintained  Block-wise/District-wise  and  not Parliamentary Constituency-wise. Misrikh Parliamentary constituency comprises five Legislative Assembly segments viz. Misrikh in Sitapur District, Mallanwan, Balamau & Sandila in Hardoi District  and  Bilhaur  in  Kanpur  Nagar  Districts.  The  status  of  completion  of  road  works sanctioned in these districts under PMGSY-I and PMGSY-II are given below:-

| Name of District   | PMGSY-I (No. of road works)   | PMGSY-I (No. of road works)   | PMGSY-I (No. of road works)   | PMGSY-II (No. of road works)   | PMGSY-II (No. of road works)   | PMGSY-II (No. of road works)   |
|--------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|                    | Sanctioned                    | Completed                     | Balance                       | Sanctioned                     | Completed                      | Balance                        |
| Hardoi             | 415                           | 413                           | 02                            | 13                             | 13                             | 00                             |
| Kanpur Nagar       | 272                           | 272                           | 00                            | 11                             | 09                             | 02                             |
| Sitapur            | 384                           | 382                           | 02                            | 11                             | 11                             | 00                             |