Lok Sabha Question No. 2710 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-14
Subject: Selection Criteria for Roads under PMGSY
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Vinod Chavda, Ramapati Ram Tripathi, Chandra Prakash Choudhary

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

## LOK  SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2710

ANSWERED ON 14/12/2021

## SELECTION CRITERIA FOR ROADS UNDER PMGSY

2710.   SHRI VINOD L. CHAVDA: DR. RAMAPATI RAM TRIPATHI: SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH CHOUDHARY:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the  details  of  roads  constructed  since  inception  of  Pradhan  Mantri  Gram  Sadak Yojana  (PMGSY)  along  with  the  length  of  such  roads  constructed  in  the  country, year, State and district-wise including Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand;
- (b) the criteria for selection of roads under the PMGSY;
- (c) whether  the  criteria  for  construction  of  roads  under  such  Yojana  also  includes recommendation letter received from Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha);
- (d) if  so,  the  details of the roads being sanctioned for the districts of Jharkhand during the last five years;
- (e) the  number  of  Gram  Panchayats  which  have  been  provided  access  to  roads  under PMGSY during the said period, State-wise; and
- (f) whether  the  Government  has  any  procedure  for  scrutiny  of  the  completion  of sanctioned roads, if so, details thereof?

## ANSWER

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

- (a)        A total of 6,80,040 Km road length has been constructed under various interventions of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) as on 8 th December, 2021. The details of road length constructed state-wise, district-wise and year-wise under various interventions of PMGSY may be accessed at the programme website omms.nic.in->progress monitoring>Financial Year wise Achievement .
- (b)  to  (c)   PMGSY-I  was  launched  as  a  one-time  special  intervention  to  provide  rural connectivity, by way of a single all-weather road, to the eligible unconnected habitations of designated population size (500+ in plain areas and 250+ in North-Eastern States, Himalayan States and Himalayan Union Territories as per 2001 census) in the core network for uplifting the  socio-economic  condition  of  the  rural  population.  Relaxation  has  been  provided  to  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 Planning Commission) and unconnected habitations in these areas with a population of 250 persons and above in the Core Network as per Census 2001 are eligible for

connectivity  under  the  scheme.  In  the  critical  Left  Wing  Extremism  affected  blocks  (as identified  by  Ministry  of  Home  Affairs),  additional  relaxation  has  been  given  to  connect habitations with population 100 persons and above as per 2001 census. The Scheme had also an element of upgradation (to prescribed standards) of existing rural roads in districts where all  the  eligible  habitations  of  the  designated  population  size  have  been  connected  with  allweather road connectivity. The roads connecting the targeted habitations were taken up for sanction under the new  connectivity  component of the scheme. Under upgradation component, intermediate link roads, which were not upto the standards of all-weather roads, were taken up for upgradation to the prescribed standards.

Under PMGSY-II, launched in 2013, which envisages upgradation of the existing rural road network to improve its overall efficiency as a provider of transportation services for people, goods and services, the selection of roads in a particular district/ block has been done by the States/  UTs based on the utility value of the eligible  roads  computed on the basis of their economic potential and their role in facilitating the growth of rural market centres and rural hubs.

Under Road Connectivity  Project  for  Left  Wing  Extremism  Affected  Areas  (RCPLWEA), which was launched in 2016 with the twin objectives of enabling smooth and seamless antiLWE operations by the security forces and also ensuring socio-economic development of the area,  the  selection  of  the  projects  is  done  by  the  Ministry  of  Home  Affairs  in  consultation with the states and security forces.

Under  PMGSY-III,  launched  in  2019,  which  envisages  consolidation  of  existing  Through Routes  (TR)  and  Major  Rural  Links  (MRL)  connecting  habitations,  inter-alia,  to  Gramin Agricultural  Markets,  Higher Secondary Schools and Hospitals, the selection of roads in a particular district/block is done by the States/UTs based on the utility value of the eligible roads computed on the basis of the population served by the road and market, educational, medical and transport infrastructure facilities connected by the concerned road.

The PMGSY has inbuilt mechanism for consultation with public representatives at planning, selection  of  roads  and  monitoring  stages.   As  per  the  programme  guidelines  of  the  current phase i.e.PMGSY-III, the proposals received from the Members of Parliament with regard to selection of roads are given full consideration and such proposals that cannot be included are communicated in  writing  to  the  Members  of  Parliament  with  reasons  for  non-inclusion  of such proposal in each case. In order to ensure that the State Government give due attention towards  provisions  of  the  programme  guidelines  while  submitting  the  proposals  to  the Ministry of Rural Development for sanction, the Ministry has issued an advisory to the States on 2 nd June, 2020. The State Governments have been advised, inter-alia , to communicate the final list of proposals in the order of priority to the Member of Parliament with the reasons for non-inclusion of certain roads in the proposals and obtain their consent on the proposals sent for approval.

(d)   The  details  of  road  length  constructed/  completed  year-wise  in  respect  of  various districts of Jharkhand under various interventions of PMGSY can also be accessed at the programme website omms.nic.in->progress monitoring->Financial Year wise Achievement . The details of the roads sanctioned and completed in last five years for the State of Jharkhand are given as below:-

|         | Sanctioned   | Sanctioned          | Sanctioned     | Completed    | Completed           | Completed      |
|---------|--------------|---------------------|----------------|--------------|---------------------|----------------|
| Year    | No. of Roads | Road Length (in km) | No. of Bridges | No. of Roads | Road Length (in km) | No. of Bridges |
| 2016-17 | 1,221        | 3,779               | 111            | 721          | 3,120               | 80             |
| 2017-18 | 1,068        | 2,975               | 133            | 1,061        | 4,519               | 33             |
| 2018-19 | 274          | 709                 | 37             | 747          | 3,570               | 76             |
| 2019-20 | 247          | 2,229               | 31             | 906          | 1,408               | 65             |
| 2020-21 | -            | -                   | -              | 470          | 2,008               | 74             |
| 2021-22 | 125          | 774                 | 71             | 259          | 377                 | 29             |
| Total   | 2,935        | 10,466              | 383            | 4,164        | 15,002              | 357            |

(e)    The eligibility under PMGSY is determined on the basis of habitations to be connected. As per programme guidelines, the unit of this programme is a habitation and not a revenue village or a Gram Panchayat. The number of habitations provided connectivity during the last 5 years, state-wise, is given in the Annexure.

(f)      There is a three-tiered Quality Control mechanism for ensuring construction of quality road works and durability of road assets under PMGSY.  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  the  final  stage  of  construction. Under  the  third  tier,  independent  National  Quality  Monitors  (NQMs)  are  deployed  by National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency (NRIDA) for random inspection of roads and bridge works to monitor quality and also to provide guidance to the field functionaries. Thus, completed roads are compulsorily inspected by SQMs, and inspected on sample basis by NQMs.

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## Annexure referred to in part (e) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2710 for answer on 14.12.2021

## State-wise details of habitations connected during the last five years (2016-17 till 202021)

| No.   | State/UTs Name         | Habitations Connected (in No.)   | Habitations Connected (in No.)   | Habitations Connected (in No.)   | Habitations Connected (in No.)   | Habitations Connected (in No.)   |
|-------|------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| No.   | State/UTs Name         | 2016-17                          | 2017-18                          | 2018-19                          | 2019-20                          | 2020-21                          |
| 1     | Andaman And Nicobar    | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                | 6                                |
| 2     | Andhra Pradesh         | 74                               | 32                               | 73                               | 65                               | 43                               |
| 3     | Arunachal Pradesh      | 6                                | 25                               | 70                               | 21                               | 14                               |
| 4     | Assam                  | 315                              | 318                              | 1,638                            | 1,681                            | 837                              |
| 5     | Bihar                  | 4,493                            | 3,408                            | 2,748                            | 511                              | 468                              |
| 6     | Chhattisgarh           | 275                              | 404                              | 481                              | 518                              | 205                              |
| 7     | Dadra And Nagar Haveli | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                |
| 8     | Goa                    | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                |
| 9     | Gujarat                | 11                               | 11                               | 9                                | 0                                | 1                                |
| 10    | Haryana                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                |
| 11    | Himachal Pradesh       | 100                              | 57                               | 83                               | 95                               | 90                               |
| 12    | Jammu And Kashmir      | 235                              | 140                              | 216                              | 146                              | 119                              |
| 13    | Jharkhand              | 1,028                            | 1,709                            | 1,683                            | 282                              | 46                               |
| 14    | Karnataka              | 4                                | 0                                | 0                                | 2                                | 0                                |
| 15    | Kerala                 | 7                                | 16                               | 16                               | 0                                | 0                                |
| 16    | Madhya Pradesh         | 1,069                            | 1,642                            | 671                              | 194                              | 92                               |
| 17    | Maharashtra            | 26                               | 34                               | 49                               | 29                               | 28                               |
| 18    | Manipur                | 28                               | 58                               | 63                               | 23                               | 18                               |
| 19    | Meghalaya              | 22                               | 48                               | 42                               | 29                               | 7                                |
| 20    | Mizoram                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                | 2                                | 64                               |
| 21    | Nagaland               | 0                                | 0                                | 2                                | 0                                | 0                                |
| 22    | Odisha                 | 1,643                            | 1,777                            | 1,672                            | 256                              | 269                              |
| 23    | Punjab                 | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                |
| 24    | Rajasthan              | 1,110                            | 760                              | 10                               | 19                               | 6                                |
| 25    | Sikkim                 | 3                                | 4                                | 52                               | 4                                | 5                                |
| 26    | Tamilnadu              | 9                                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                | 0                                |
| 27    | Tripura                | 22                               | 38                               | 31                               | 12                               | 30                               |
| 28    | Uttar Pradesh          | 149                              | 35                               | 5                                | 0                                | 2                                |
| 29    | Uttarakhand            | 168                              | 207                              | 202                              | 154                              | 144                              |
| 30    | West Bengal            | 1,161                            | 784                              | 545                              | 81                               | 67                               |
| 31    | Telangana              | 1                                | 10                               | 63                               | 28                               | 27                               |
| 32    | Ladakh                 | 3                                | 13                               | 5                                | 2                                | 0                                |
| Total | Total                  | 11,962                           | 11,530                           | 10,429                           | 4,154                            | 2,588                            |