Lok Sabha Question No. 1352 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-02-11
Subject: Roads under PMGSY
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Mrs Ruchi Vira

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1352 ANSWERED ON 11/02/2025

## ROADS UNDER PMGSY

## 1352. MRS RUCHI VIRA:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) the details and number of roads targeted to be constructed and completed by the Government in Moradabad and Bijnor of Uttar Pradesh from the year 2019 to 2024 under the Pradhan Mantri Gram SadakYojana (PMGSY);
- (b) the details and number of proposal received from the people's representatives and approved in the year 2024-25 in the said parliamentary constituencies Moradabad  and  Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh under PMGSY;
- (c) the details of the steps taken to maintain the quality of roads constructed under the said scheme; and
- (d) whether  the  Government  has  achieved  the  target  set  from 2019 to 2024 and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## (SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN)

- (a)    The  details  of  road  works  sanctioned  and  completed  in Moradabad and Bijnor District of Uttar Pradesh, from the year 2019 to 2024, under the Pradhan Mantri Gram SadakYojana (PMGSY)-III, are as under:-

| District   | Sanctioned        | Sanctioned      | Completed         | Completed           | Balance*          | Balance*            |
|------------|-------------------|-----------------|-------------------|---------------------|-------------------|---------------------|
|            | No. of Road works | Road Length Km) | No. of Road works | Road Length (in Km) | No. of Road works | Road Length (in Km) |
| Moradabad  | 24                | 147.81          | 24                | 143.84              | 0                 | 0                   |
| Bijnor     | 19                | 135.04          | 19                | 135.04              | 0                 | 0                   |

*  Note:  The  balance  length  will  not  be  equal  to  sanctioned  length minus the completed length because some roads get completed at shorter distance than sanctioned distance due to change  in alignment and other issues.
- (b) The details regarding proposals received from people's representatives for construction of PMGSY roads are not centrally maintained.
- (c) Under PMGSY, a three-tiered Quality Control mechanism is in place  for ensuring construction of quality road works and durability of road assets under PMGSY including the works undertaken by subcontractors.  Under  the  first  tier,  the  Programme  Implementation Units (PIUs) are required to ensure process control through mandatory tests on material and workmanship at the field laboratory. The second tier comprises independent quality monitoring at the State level through State Quality Monitors (SQMs) to ensure  that every work  is inspected at the initial stage, intermediate stage, and final stage of the construction. Under the third  tier,  which  is  at  the  national  level,  independent  National Quality Monitors (NQMs) are deployed for random inspection of road works  to  monitor  quality  and  also  to  provide  guidance  of  senior professionals  to  the  field  functionaries.  Based  on  the  periodic monitoring of the quality of roads under the there-tier mechanism, corrective  measures,  wherever  necessary,  are  taken  by  the  State Governments.

States have also been apprised to make provision for additional  inspections  by  State  Quality  Monitors  on  the  PMGSY works where abnormally low bidding is observed. NQM inspections are also being conducted on such works by National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency (NRIDA), a technical arm of the Ministry, on a random basis.

- (d)       Under  PMGSY-III,  the  State  of  Uttar  Pradesh  has  been allocated a target of 18,937.50 Km which has been fully sanctioned. Out of this, the State has completed 17,472 km of road length  as  on  7.2.25.The  timeline  for  completion  of  PMGSY-III  is March 2025.

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