Lok Sabha Question No. 1556 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-07-26
Subject: Road Connectivity upto Fields in Rural Areas
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: KAPIL MORESHWAR PATIL

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1556 TO BE ANSWERED ON 26.07.2018

## ROAD CONNECTIVITY UPTO FIELDS IN RURAL AREAS

## 1556.   SHRI KAPIL MORESHWAR PATIL:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  received  any  proposal  from  the  State  Government including Maharashtra regarding provision of road connectivity upto fields in rural areas for taking agricultural produce to the markets;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and the action taken by the Government in this regard;
- (c) whether several villages/ habitations of various States including Maharashtra have to be connected with all weather roads;
- (d) if so, the details thereof, State/ UT-wise;
- (e) the details of efforts made by the Government to connect all such villages/ habitations with all weather roads; and
- (f) the time by which the targets fixed are likely to be achieved by the Government in this regard, State/UT-wise?

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

(a) & (b):     No Sir.

(c)&(d):    As  per  Pradhan  Mantri  Gram  Sadak  Yojana  (PMGSY)  guidelines,  unconnected habitations having population of 500 persons and above (Census 2001) in Plain areas and 250 persons  and  above  (Census  2001)  in  Special  Category  States  (Arunachal  Pradesh,  Assam, Manipur,  Meghalaya,  Mizoram,  Nagaland,  Sikkim,  Tripura,  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 and Planning Commission), are eligible to provide all-weather road. For most intensive Left Wing Extremism (LWE) affected blocks as identified by Ministry of Home Affairs, the unconnected habitations with population 100 and above (as per 2001 Census) is eligible to provide all-weather roads under PMGSY.  Details of habitations connected in various States including Maharashta is given at Annexure .

(e) & (f):    Under PMGSY, out of 1,78,184 eligible habitations, 1,64,913 have been cleared and  1,41,311  habitations  have  been  connected  upto  June,  2018.  In  order  to  give  a  boost  to public investment in the rural sector particularly rural infrastructure, the Ministry has taken a decision  to  accelerate  execution  of  PMGSY  and  complete  the  connectivity  mandate  of  the balance eligible habitations under PMGSY-I by March, 2019.

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## ANNEXURE

## Annexure referred to in reply to part (c ) & (d) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No 1556 due for 26.07.2018

## Details of eligible habitations, Sanctioned and Connected under PMGSY as on June, 2018

| Sl.No   | State (s)           |   Total Eligible under PMGSY |   Habitations sanctioned |   Habitations connected |
|---------|---------------------|------------------------------|--------------------------|-------------------------|
| 1       | 2                   |                            3 |                        4 |                       5 |
| 1       | Andhra Pradesh      |                         2842 |                     1169 |                    1142 |
| 2       | Arunachal Pradesh   |                          931 |                      506 |                     379 |
| 3       | Assam               |                        12205 |                    13935 |                    9571 |
| 4       | Bihar               |                        24804 |                    31484 |                   26257 |
| 5       | Chhattisgarh        |                        10763 |                    10114 |                    9081 |
| 6       | Goa                 |                           20 |                        2 |                       1 |
| 7       | Gujarat             |                         3387 |                     3064 |                    3028 |
| 8       | Haryana             |                            1 |                        1 |                       1 |
| 9       | Himachal Pradesh    |                         3725 |                     2542 |                    2145 |
| 10      | Jammu &Kashmir      |                         3892 |                     2296 |                    1616 |
| 11      | Jharkhand           |                        11613 |                     9595 |                    8813 |
| 12      | Karnataka           |                         1766 |                      297 |                     296 |
| 13      | Kerala              |                          435 |                      435 |                     387 |
| 14      | Madhya Pradesh      |                        21168 |                    18308 |                   16681 |
| 15      | Maharashtra         |                         2159 |                     1366 |                    1297 |
| 16      | Manipur             |                         1023 |                      658 |                     503 |
| 17      | Meghalaya           |                          793 |                      539 |                     293 |
| 18      | Mizoram             |                          246 |                      238 |                     155 |
| 19      | Nagaland            |                          191 |                       98 |                      93 |
| 20      | Odisha              |                        22211 |                    15111 |                   14141 |
| 21      | Punjab              |                          441 |                      390 |                     389 |
| 22      | Rajasthan           |                        16801 |                    16229 |                   14725 |
| 23      | Sikkim              |                          366 |                      370 |                     294 |
| 24      | Tamil Nadu          |                         2203 |                     1995 |                    1986 |
| 25      | Tripura             |                         1731 |                     1929 |                    1862 |
| 26      | Uttar Pradesh       |                        13984 |                    11623 |                   11747 |
| 27      | Uttarakhand         |                         2684 |                     1723 |                    1174 |
| 28      | West Bengal         |                        13822 |                    18115 |                   12516 |
| 29      | Telangana           |                         1977 |                      781 |                     738 |
|         | Total:              |                       178184 |                   164913 |                  141311 |
| 30      | A &NIslands         |                            0 |                        0 |                       0 |
| 31      | Dadra &Nagar Haveli |                            0 |                        0 |                       0 |
| 32      | Daman &Diu          |                            0 |                        0 |                       0 |
| 33      | Delhi               |                            0 |                        0 |                       0 |
| 34      | Lakshadweep         |                            0 |                        0 |                       0 |
| 35      | Pondicherry         |                            0 |                        0 |                       0 |
|         | Total U.Ts          |                            0 |                        0 |                       0 |
|         | G. Total:           |                       178184 |                   164913 |                  141311 |