Lok Sabha Question No. 829 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-04-28
Subject: Construction of Culverts and Bridges under PMGSY
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: SATISH CHANDRA DUBEY

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

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 829 TO BE ANSWERED ON 28.04 .2016

## CONSTRUCTION OF CULVERTS AND BRIDGES UNDER PMGSY

## 829. SHRI SATISH CHANDRA DUBEY:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the residents of hilly and rural areas have to take long routes to reach etc.  in  case  of  emergency  and  similarly  students  have  to  spend  hours  to  reach schools/colleges ;
- (b) whether there is any proposal to formulate a special scheme/project for the constr of culverts and bridges on the lines of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) fo the development of hilly/ rural areas and to ease/improve living conditions of the people in hilly and rural areas; and
- (c) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI SUDARSHAN BHAGAT )

(a) to (c) : 'Rural  Roads'  is  a  State  subject  and  Pradhan Mantri  Gram  Sadak  Yojana (PMGSY)  is  a  one - time  special  intervention  of  the  Government  of  India  to  provide  rur connectivity,  by  way  of  a  single  all - weather  road with  necessary  culverts  and  cross  drainage structures ,  to  the  eligible  unconnected  habitations in  the  core  network. The  programme envisages connecting all eligible unconnected habitations with a population of 500 perso above (as per 2001 Census) in plain areas and 250 persons and above (as per 2001 Census Special Category States (Arunac hal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir and Utt arakhand), Tribal (Schedule - V) areas, the Desert Areas (as identified in Desert Development Programme) and in Selected T and Backward D istricts (as identified by the Ministry of Home Affairs/Planning Commissio For most intensive IAP blocks as identified by the Ministry of Home Affairs the unconn habitations with population 100 and above (as per 2001 census) areeligible to be cov ered under PMGSY. PMGSY alsopermits upgradation (to prescribed standards) of existing rural road districts where all the eligible habitations of the designated population size have been all weather road connectivity. The Government has also launched PMGSY -II which envisages consolidation of the existing Rural Road Network to improve its overall efficiency as a p of transportation services for people, goods and services. It also focusses on upgradation of existing selected rural roads (Through Routes and Major Rural Links) based on their economic potential and their role in facilitating the growth of rural market centre and rural hubs.

PMGSY also provides for construction of bridges upto 50 metre span in normal areas bridges upto 75 metre span in IAP areas.  The scheme permits design ofthe bridges as per need, to  serve  as  Bridge -cum - Bandhara  for  conserving  the  rain  water  and  ensuring  recharge  of underground water table. The construction of rural roads with all necessary culv erts and bridges under PMGSY makes communication and transportation easyfor the target population .

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