Lok Sabha Question No. 153 (STARRED), answered on 2015-07-30
Subject: Rural Road Connectivity
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: RAKSHA NIKHIL KHADSE, JAYADEV GALLA

## COVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 153 TO BE ANSWERED ON 30.07.2015

## 153. SHRIMATI RAKSHATAI KHADSE: SHRI JAYADEV GALLA :

## Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a whether the Union Government has received any proposals from the State Governments including Maharashtra for field approach roads in rural areas particularly for ferrying agricultural produce to market places and if so, the details thereof along with the action taken by the Union Government thereon;
- the efforts taken by the Union Government to provide all-weather roads connecti to all such villages habitations; and being vity
- whether a large number of villages habitations are still to be connected with all-weather roads in various States including Andhra Pradesh and if so, the details thereof; State/UTwise;
- (d) the time by which the targets set by the Union Government in this regard are likely to be completed, State/UT-wise?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI BIRENDER SINGH)

- (a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## Statement referred t0 in reply to Parts (a" due for answer on 30.07.2015

(a): PradhanMantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme with the objective to provide   all-weather road   connectivity to all  eligible unconnected   habitations, existing in the Core Network; in rural areas of country: The programme envisages connecting all eligible   unconnected habitations with a population of 500 persons and above (as per 2001 Census) in plain areas and 250 persons and above (as per 2001 Census) in Special Category Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Uttrakhand), Tribal (Schedule-V) areas, the Desert Areas (as identified in Desert Development Programme) and in Selected Tribal and Backward Districts (as identified by the Ministry of Home Affairslerstwhile Planning Commission). The PMGSY permits upgradation (to prescribed standards) of existing rural roads in districts where all the eligible habitations of the designated population size have been provided all weather road connectivity. For most intensive IAP blocks as identified by the Ministry of Home Affairs, the unconnected habitations with population 10O persons and above (as per 2001 census) are eligible to be covered under PMGSY. Up-gradation of selected rural roads to provide full farm to market connectivity is also an objective of the scheme; though not central to it In addition, PMGSY-II has also been launched for upgradation of existing selected rural roads based on a prescribed criterion to strengthen and to make the rural road-network vibrant:

as per  above Guidelines of the Scheme are considered for sanction by the Ministry.

- (b) to (d) As per the above mandate of the Scheme, there are about 1,78,184 nos. of eligible unconnected habitations that are required to be connected through single all weather road under PMGSY. The Ministry has cleared the proposals for construction of new roads to connect 1,45,041 nos. of eligible unconnected habitations and as reported by the States, a total of 1,10,933 nos. of habitations have been connected till date. The State-wise details of connectivity provided is at Annexure: The provision of connectivity to the balance unconnected habitations is a function of the execution and contracting capacity of the States and also availability of adequate funds for the Scheme.

## nnexure referred to in reply to part (b to (d)of LokSabha Starred Question No:

## PradhanMantri Gram SadakYoiana (PMGSY)

| Habitation coverage under PMGSY   | Habitation coverage under PMGSY   | Habitation coverage under PMGSY                                                         | Habitation coverage under PMGSY     |
|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|                                   | States                            | Nos: of eligible unconnected Habitations for which the projects sanctioned upto June,15 | Habitations connected June, 15 upto |
| 1                                 | 2                                 | 3                                                                                       |                                     |
| 1                                 | Andhra Pradesh                    | 1,947                                                                                   | 1,286                               |
| 2                                 | Arunachal Pradesh                 | 420                                                                                     | 336                                 |
| 3                                 | Assam                             | 9.257                                                                                   | 7,583                               |
| 4                                 | Bihar                             | 27,184                                                                                  | 13,958                              |
| 5                                 | Chhattisgarh                      | 9,442                                                                                   | 8,428                               |
| 6                                 | Goa                               | 20                                                                                      | 2                                   |
| 7                                 | Gujarat                           | 3,047                                                                                   | 3,001                               |
| 8                                 | Haryana                           |                                                                                         |                                     |
| 9                                 | Himachal Pradesh                  | 2,445                                                                                   | 1,968                               |
| 10                                | Jammu & Kashmir                   | 1,925                                                                                   | 1,433                               |
| 11                                | Jharkhand                         | 8,469                                                                                   | 5,359                               |
| 12                                | Karnataka                         | 297                                                                                     | 275                                 |
| 13                                | Kerala                            | 436                                                                                     | 375                                 |
| 14                                | Madhya Pradesh                    | 16,905                                                                                  | 13,396                              |
| 15                                | Maharashtra                       | 1,394                                                                                   |                                     |
| 16                                | Manipur                           | 549                                                                                     | 399                                 |
| 17                                | Meghalaya                         | 482                                                                                     | 183                                 |
| 18                                | Mizoram                           | 162                                                                                     | 155                                 |
| 19                                | Nagaland                          | 91                                                                                      | 90                                  |
| 20                                | Odisha                            | 13,588                                                                                  | 9.483                               |
| 21                                | Punjab                            | 425                                                                                     | 444                                 |
| 22                                | Rajasthan                         | 14,646                                                                                  | 13,233                              |
| 23                                | Sikkim                            | 296                                                                                     | 225                                 |
| 24                                | Tamil Nadu                        | 1,983                                                                                   | 1,948                               |
| 25                                | Telangana                         |                                                                                         | 566                                 |
| 26                                | Tripura                           | 1,903                                                                                   | 1,706                               |
| 27                                | Uttar Pradesh                     | 12,689                                                                                  | 11,153                              |
| 28                                | Uttarakhand                       | 1,254                                                                                   | 770                                 |
| 29                                | West Bengal                       | 13,784                                                                                  | 11,959                              |
| Total                             |                                   |                                                                                         |                                     |
|                                   |                                   | 145,041 110,933                                                                         | 145,041 110,933                     |