Lok Sabha Question No. 391 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-07-22
Subject: Changes in Guidelines under PMGSY
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Lalji Verma

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 391 ANSWERED ON 22/07/2025

## CHANGES IN GUIDELINES UNDER PMGSY

## 391. SHRI LALJI VERMA:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- whether  some  roads  have  been  earmarked  in  Ayodhya  and Ambedkar  Nagar  districts  under  the  Pradhan  Mantri  Gram SadakYojana (PMGSY) in the financial year 2024-25 and 2025-
- (a) 26;
- (b)
- if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor; and
- (c) whether  the  Government  has  made  changes  in  the  rules  of PMGSY  acting  on    the  proposal  of  public  representatives  to identify  villages  under  their  Parliamentary  Constituencies,  if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN)

(a) & (b): The State of Uttar Pradesh has been sanctioned the full entitlement  of  roads  and  bridges  under  Pradhan  Mantri  Gram SadakYojana (PMGSY)-I, II and III.  In Ayodhya and Ambedkar Nagar districts,  no  works  under  PMGSY  have  been  sanctioned  during the FY 2024-25 and 2025-26.

Before the FY 2024-25, a total of 298 road works with a length of  1194  Km  were  sanctioned  under  PMGSY  in  Ayodhyaya  district and all road works have been completed.

Similarly,  before  the  FY  2024-25,  a  total  of  248  road  works length  of  875  Km  were  sanctioned  under  PMGSY  in with a Ambedkarnagar district and all road works have been completed.

(c): The  PMGSY  has  an  inbuilt  mechanism  for  consultation  with public representatives at various stages of planning and implementation of the programme.  Advisories have been issued and reiterated from time to time to the State Governments/State Rural Road  Development  Agencies,  giving  emphasis,  inter-alia,  on  strict compliance of these provisions.

Further the following provisions have been made under the Programme Guidelines of PMGSY-IV :-

- (i)  The  District  Rural  Roads  Plan  (DRRP)  is  to  be  updated  and  a Comprehensive New Connectivity Priority List (CNCPL) at Block and District level has to be prepared, based on the survey, and placed before  the  District  Panchayats.  Thereafter  proposals  have  to  be approved by District Panchayats. In all these stages the suggestions and proposals from Hon'ble Members of Parliament are to be given due importance.
- (ii) After the CNCPL is prepared and verified it shall be placed before the  district  Panchayat.  The  Member  of  Parliament/MLAs  shall  be given a copy of the CNCPL  and their suggestions and the suggestions of lower level Panchayati Raj institutions shall be given fullest  consideration  by  the  district  panchayat  while  according  its approval.
- (iii)  Also,  the  suggestions  of  the  Hon'ble  Members  of  Parliament regarding  the  eligible  habitations  should  be  duly  recorded  in  MP-1 format  before  submission  of  proposals  to  district  Panchayat  for approval. This will  ensure  that the eventual  selection  of the habitations  is  comprehensive  and  it  strengthens  the  planning  and implementation under the programme.

Vide Ministry's Circular dated 29.01.2025, States were advised that during the survey process of PMGSY-IV, the Project Implementation Units  (PIUs)  should  apprise  the  Hon'ble  Members  of  Parliament (both LokSabha and RajyaSabha as per the PMGSY norms) regarding the ongoing survey and give due consideration to their suggestions for inclusion of habitations in DRRP and CNCPL as per the eligibility norms of the programme.

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