Lok Sabha Question No. 2407 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-08-03
Subject: Road Connectivity under PMGSY in Bhagalpur
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Ajay Kumar Mandal, Ramapati Ram Tripathi

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

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2407

ANSWERED ON 03/08/2021

## ROAD CONNECTIVITY UNDER PMGSY IN BHAGALPUR

2407.   SHRI AJAY KUMAR MANDAL: DR. RAMAPATI RAM TRIPATHI:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether most of the road projects sanctioned under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana in Uttar Pradesh during the last three years have not been completed till date, if  so,  the  details  thereof,  State-wise and district-wise, particularly Bhagalpur district Parliamentary Constituency;
- (b) if so, the details thereof, project-wise;
- (c) the  details  of  the  set  target  for  2020-21  and  2021-  22  to  make  available  rural  road connectivity under PMGSY in Bhagalpur District Parliamentary Constituency;
- (d) the  details  of  the  progress  in  construction  of  roads  under  PMGSY  in  Bhagalpur District Parliamentary constituency as on 31 March, 2021;
- (e) the  steps  taken  by  the  Government  to  complete  the  projects  in  timebound  manner, project-wise; and
- (f) whether  it  is  alleged  that  the  contractors  are  missing  after  getting  payment  from respective engineers and if so, the details thereof and the action taken/proposed to be taken against the said contractors/engineers?

## ANSWER

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

(a) & (b) Details of road works sanctioned and completed under PMGSY in the State of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Bhagalpur district parliamentary constituency is given at Annexure-I .

The  state-wise,  district-wise  as  well  as  scheme-wise  details  of  road  works  sanctioned  and completed under PMGSY is available on Online Monitoring Management and Accounting System (OMMAS)  portal  and the same may  be seen on omms.nic.in-> Progress Monitoring->Financial  year-wise  achievement . Project-wise details may  be  seen  at omms.nic.in-> proposals-> State-wise List of Roads .

(c)  Under  PMGSY,  financial  year-wise  targets  are  set  in  terms  of  road  length  to  be constructed in km and habitations to be connected taking into account state as a unit and not district-wise. The details of target set and achievement thereon in the State of Bihar in FY 2020-21 & 2021-22 are as under:

| Financial Year             | Target length (km)   | Completed length (km)   |   Target Habitations |   Connected Habitations |
|----------------------------|----------------------|-------------------------|----------------------|-------------------------|
| 2020-21                    | 3,224                | 2,255                   |                  700 |                     468 |
| 2021-22 (as on 29.07.2021) | 3,200                | 516                     |                  799 |                      59 |

(d)  As on 31 st March, 2021, 1,111 km road length has been sanctioned in Bhagalpur district parliamentary constituency under various interventions/ verticals of PMGSY, out of which, 1,020 km road length has been completed.

(e)  The progress of implementation of rural roads under PMGSY is regularly reviewed by way  of  Regional  Review  Meetings  (RRMs),  Performance  Review  Committee  (PRC) Meetings,  Pre-  Empowered/Empowered  Committee  Meetings  with  the  States.  At  District level, the District Development Coordination and Monitoring Committee (Disha) headed by a Member of Parliament (LS) monitors the implementation of various schemes of Government of  India  including  PMGSY.  In  addition  to  this,  special  review  meetings  are  also  held  by Secretary/ Additional Secretary/ Joint Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development with Chief Secretaries/Principal Secretaries of the States to ensure that works sanctioned under PMGSY are completed on time.

(f)  As  per  the  report  received  from  Government  of  Bihar,  no  contractors  are  missing  after getting payment from respective engineers.

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Annexure-I

## Annexure referred to in reply of parts (a) & (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2407 to be answered on 03.08.2021

Details of road works sanctioned and completed under PMGSY in the State of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Bhagalpur district parliamentary constituency

(Road length in km)

| Year                             | 2018-19           | 2018-19          | 2019-20           | 2019-20          | 2020-21           | 2020-21          | 2021-22 (as on 29.07.2021)   | 2021-22 (as on 29.07.2021)   | Total             | Total            |
|----------------------------------|-------------------|------------------|-------------------|------------------|-------------------|------------------|------------------------------|------------------------------|-------------------|------------------|
| State/ District                  | Sanctioned length | Completed length | Sanctioned length | Completed length | Sanctioned length | Completed length | Sanctioned length            | Completed length             | Sanctioned length | Completed length |
| Uttar Pradesh                    | 926               | 1,688            | 287               | 376              | 6,287             | 711              | 0                            | 100                          | 7500              | 2875             |
| Bihar                            | 687               | 3,308            | 3,046             | 719              | 1,390             | 2,255            | 0                            | 511                          | 5123              | 6793             |
| Bhagalpur Parliamentary district | 0                 | 40               | 33                | 1                | 0                 | 18               | 0                            | 10                           | 33                | 69               |

Note- Where the completed length is more than the sanctioned length in any particular year, it implies that, works have been sanctioned prior to that year.

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