PRADHAN MANTRI GRAMIN SADAK YOJANA (PMGSY)
- GOVERNMENT SCHEME
News: Parliamentary panel pulls up Centre
for ‘inordinate delay’ in construction of rural roads
What's
in the news?
● Construction
of more than 24,000 km of road length under the first phase of the Pradhan
Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), which was launched in 2000 by the National
Democratic Alliance (NDA) government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee,
is pending, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Rural Development said in a
report that was tabled in Parliament on July 27.
Key
takeaways:
● The
Pradhan Mantri Sadak Yojana was envisaged as a poverty reduction measure by bringing in roads to unconnected
habitations across the country.
PMGSY:
● The
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) is a nationwide plan in India to
provide good all-weather road
connectivity to unconnected villages.
● It
is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme
introduced in 2000.
Nodal
Ministry: Ministry of Rural Development.
Eligibility:
● Unconnected
habitations of designated population size (500+ in plain areas and 250+ in North-Eastern
States, Himalayan States, Deserts and Tribal Areas as per 2001 census) in the
core network for uplifting the socio-economic condition of the rural
population.
Latest
Funding Pattern:
● The
fund allocation to states has been made in subsequent years commensurate with
the value of projects sanctioned to states.
● The
Union Government bears 90% of the
project cost in respect of projects sanctioned under the scheme in
North-Eastern and Himalayan States, whereas for other states the Union
Government bears 60% of the cost.
Construction
of Rural Roads:
● The
Rural Roads constructed under the PMGSY will be in accordance with the
provision of the Indian Roads Congress
(IRC).
○ IRC,
the Apex Body of Highway Engineers in the country was set up in 1934.