Lok Sabha Question No. 1148 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-13
Subject: Standards Fixed for the Construction of Roads
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Pradeep Kumar Chaudhary

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

## LOK  SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1148 ANSWERED ON 13/12/2022

## STANDARDS FIXED FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS

## 1148.   SHRI PRADEEP KUMAR CHAUDHARY:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of rural parts in kilometers of the country which have been connected to the scheme under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana (PMGSY);
- (b) the details of rural areas added under PMGSY in Uttar Pradesh, district-wise;
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  any  proposal  to  change  the  standards  fixed  for  the construction of  roads under PMGSY, if so, the details thereof; and
- (d) if not, the corrective steps taken by the Government in this regard?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SADHVI NIRANJAN JYOTI)

- (a) The  details  of  road  works  in  kilometers  constructed  under  various  interventions/ verticals of the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) are given in Annexure-I.
- (b) District-wise  details  of  habitations  connected  under  PMGSY-I  and  road  length constructed  under  various  interventions/verticals  of  PMGSY  in  Uttar  Pradesh  are  given  in Annexure-II.
- (c) to (d) Rural Roads are constructed under PMGSY as per the technical specifications and geometric design standards given in the Ministry  of  Rural  Development  (MoRD's) specifications for rural roads, "Rural Roads Manual" of the IRC (IRC:SP20:2002) and also, where required, the "Hill Road Manual" (IRC:SP:48-1998), which are updated from time to time. The choice of design and surface for the road is determined, inter alia, by factors like traffic, soil type and rainfall following the technical specifications laid down in the guidelines for the design of flexible pavements for low volume rural roads (IRC:SP:72-2015 for traffic up to T9 category/ 2 msa and IRC:37-2018 for traffic more than 2 msa) and guidelines for design of rigid pavements (IRC:SP: 62-2014).

The standards and codes for road construction are given by  Indian Roads Congress (IRC), who  keeps  updating  these  standards  and  codes  from  time  to  time,  which  are  followed  in construction of PMGSY roads.

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## Annexure referred to in part (a) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.1148 for 13.12.2022

## Road  length  sanctioned  and  completed  under  various  interventions/verticals  of PMGSY, State-wise

Road length in Km

| S.No.   | State/ UT Name              | Road length Sanctioned   | Road Length Completed   |
|---------|-----------------------------|--------------------------|-------------------------|
| 1       | Andaman And Nicobar Islands | 200                      | 50                      |
| 2       | Andhra Pradesh              | 18,973                   | 16,866                  |
| 3       | Arunachal Pradesh           | 14,384                   | 13,109                  |
| 4       | Assam                       | 32,420                   | 30,759                  |
| 5       | Bihar                       | 65,576                   | 56,552                  |
| 6       | Chhattisgarh                | 45,612                   | 41,902                  |
| 7       | Goa                         | 156                      | 155                     |
| 8       | Gujarat                     | 15,731                   | 14,368                  |
| 9       | Haryana                     | 8,111                    | 7,457                   |
| 10      | Himachal Pradesh            | 22,295                   | 20,728                  |
| 11      | Jammu And Kashmir           | 20,326                   | 17,781                  |
| 12      | Jharkhand                   | 30,576                   | 27,636                  |
| 13      | Karnataka                   | 23,978                   | 22,504                  |
| 14      | Kerala                      | 4,577                    | 3,828                   |
| 15      | Ladakh                      | 1,207                    | 1,013                   |
| 16      | Madhya Pradesh              | 93,640                   | 86,719                  |
| 17      | Maharashtra                 | 30,947                   | 27,038                  |
| 18      | Manipur                     | 11,673                   | 10,506                  |
| 19      | Meghalaya                   | 4,755                    | 4,040                   |
| 20      | Mizoram                     | 4,483                    | 4,241                   |
| 21      | Nagaland                    | 4,382                    | 4,158                   |
| 22      | Odisha                      | 74,724                   | 65,968                  |
| 23      | Puducherry                  | 106                      | 15                      |
| 24      | Punjab                      | 10,364                   | 8,863                   |
| 25      | Rajasthan                   | 75,667                   | 72,760                  |
| 26      | Sikkim                      | 4,915                    | 4,577                   |
| 27      | Tamil Nadu                  | 23,708                   | 22,115                  |
| 28      | Telangana                   | 14,555                   | 12,090                  |
| 29      | Tripura                     | 5,470                    | 4,783                   |
| 30      | Uttar Pradesh               | 77,050                   | 63,592                  |
| 31      | Uttarakhand                 | 20,277                   | 19,143                  |
| 32      | West Bengal                 | 37,899                   | 36,441                  |
| Total   |                             | 7,98,739                 | 7,21,756                |

## Annexure referred to in part (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.1148 for 13.12.2022

## Habitations connected and road length constructed in Uttar Pradesh, district-wise

|   S. No. | Name of the District   |   Habitations connected | Road Length Constructed (km)   |
|----------|------------------------|-------------------------|--------------------------------|
|        1 | Agra                   |                     295 | 962                            |
|        2 | Aligarh                |                     148 | 915                            |
|        3 | Allahabad              |                     179 | 1,143                          |
|        4 | Ambedkarnagar          |                     162 | 794                            |
|        5 | Auraiya                |                     120 | 455                            |
|        6 | Azamgarh               |                     288 | 1,317                          |
|        7 | Badaun                 |                     269 | 731                            |
|        8 | Baghpat                |                      15 | 711                            |
|        9 | Bahraich               |                     196 | 1,123                          |
|       10 | Ballia                 |                      46 | 758                            |
|       11 | Balrampur              |                      99 | 753                            |
|       12 | Banda                  |                     124 | 567                            |
|       13 | Barabanki              |                     270 | 1,256                          |
|       14 | Bareilly               |                     246 | 1,026                          |
|       15 | Basti                  |                     262 | 983                            |
|       16 | Bijnor                 |                      75 | 805                            |
|       17 | Bulandshahr            |                      57 | 939                            |
|       18 | Chandauli              |                     136 | 939                            |
|       19 | Chitrakoot             |                      66 | 522                            |
|       20 | Deoria                 |                      83 | 748                            |
|       21 | Etah                   |                     118 | 929                            |
|       22 | Etawah                 |                     145 | 693                            |
|       23 | Faizabad               |                     149 | 924                            |
|       24 | Farrukhabad            |                     191 | 608                            |
|       25 | Fatehpur               |                     301 | 792                            |
|       26 | Firozabad              |                     181 | 781                            |
|       27 | G.B. Nagar             |                      47 | 539                            |
|       28 | Ghaziabad              |                      26 | 545                            |
|       29 | Ghazipur               |                     189 | 965                            |
|       30 | Gonda                  |                     141 | 937                            |
|       31 | Gorakhpur              |                     170 | 1,114                          |
|       32 | Hamirpur               |                      75 | 495                            |
|       33 | Hardoi                 |                     300 | 1,417                          |
|       34 | Hathras                |                     118 | 604                            |
|       35 | J.B.F.Nagar            |                     119 | 639                            |
|       36 | Jalaun                 |                     116 | 702                            |
|       37 | Jaunpur                |                     230 | 1,044                          |
|       38 | Jhansi                 |                     114 | 664                            |
|       39 | Kannauj                |                     189 | 668                            |
|       40 | Kanpur Dehat           |                     229 | 906                            |
|       41 | Kanpur Nagar           |                     170 | 732                            |
|       42 | Kaushambi              |                      95 | 536                            |
|       43 | Kushinagar             |                     199 | 1,265                          |
|       44 | Lakhimpur-Kherii       |                     330 | 1,079                          |
|       45 | Lalitpur               |                      94 | 777                            |
|       46 | Lucknow                |                     170 | 832                            |

| 47     | Maharajganj         | 134    | 919    |
|--------|---------------------|--------|--------|
| 48     | Mahoba              | 82     | 540    |
| 49     | Mainpuri            | 152    | 640    |
| 50     | Mathura             | 125    | 729    |
| 51     | Mau                 | 153    | 711    |
| 52     | Meerut              | 78     | 852    |
| 53     | Mirzapur            | 143    | 1,004  |
| 54     | Moradabad           | 116    | 786    |
| 55     | Muzaffarnagar       | 127    | 768    |
| 56     | Pilibhit            | 158    | 852    |
| 57     | Pratapgarh          | 310    | 1,289  |
| 58     | Rae Bareli          | 240    | 1,109  |
| 59     | Rampur              | 167    | 928    |
| 60     | S.K. Nagar          | 111    | 695    |
| 61     | S.R. Nagar(Bhadohi) | 84     | 505    |
| 62     | Saharanpur          | 90     | 1,079  |
| 63     | Shahjahanpur        | 238    | 1,266  |
| 64     | Shrawasti           | 147    | 614    |
| 65     | Siddharathnagar     | 160    | 933    |
| 66     | Sitapur             | 283    | 1,074  |
| 67     | Sonebhadra          | 130    | 1,397  |
| 68     | Sultanpur           | 297    | 1,086  |
| 69     | Unnao               | 242    | 1,315  |
| 70     | Varanasi            | 157    | 789    |
| 71     | Hapur               | 22     | 560    |
| 72     | Sambhal             | 227    | 785    |
| 73     | Shamli              | 18     | 371    |
| 74     | Kasganj             | 90     | 497    |
| 75     | Amethi              | 125    | 858    |
| Total: | Total:              | 11,748 | 63,584 |