{"id":100236,"date":"2017-07-06T17:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T17:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/?p=100236"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T17:24:50","slug":"pradhan-mantri-gram-sadak-yojana-registers-significant-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/100236","title":{"rendered":"Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana registers significant success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, July 6 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) is being implemented <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-72901 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Modi-PM.jpg\" alt=\"modi-pm\" width=\"358\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Modi-PM.jpg 448w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Modi-PM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/punjabpost.in\/welcome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Modi-PM-290x195.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 358px) 100vw, 358px\" \/>across the country, particularly, in States having historical deficit of rural roads (Assam, West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, J&amp;K and Utttrakhand ) as never before.\u00a0 The pace of construction of PMGSY roads reached a 7 year high of 130 kms per day in 2016-17 as against an average of 73 kms during the period 2011 to 2014.\u00a0 In the present financial year 2017-18, the target is to construct 57,000 kms of PMGSY roads, at an average per day rate of 156 kms and to provide connectivity to 16,600 eligible habitations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In the first quarter of the present financial year 2017-18 (April-June, 2017), a total of 10,556 kms of PMGSY roads have been constructed, clocking an average of 117.28 kms per day. This compares very favorably to the first quarter of 2016-17 (April-June, 2016), when a total length of 8,756 kms was constructed at an average of 97.29 kms per day.\u00a0 The progress in terms of length constructed in the present financial year is 18.51% of the total annual target. The present rate of construction would further accelerate from October, 2017 to March, 2018.\u00a0 Hence, there is every reason to believe that the annual targets will be met with a strong probability of achievement exceeding the targets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Against an annual target of providing connectivity to 16,600 eligible habitations, in the first quarter of the financial year 2017-18, 2,543 habitations have been provided connectivity, which is 15.31% of the annual target.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PMGSY aims to connect 1,78,184 eligible habitations across the country out of which projects relating to 1,61,576 habitations have already been sanctioned (90.67% of the eligible habitations) and 1,29,004 habitations have been connected till June, 2017 (72.39% of eligible habitations and 79.84% of sanctioned habitations), by constructing a total of 5,12,031 kms of roads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PMGSY has also focused on use of non-conventional construction materials (waste plastic, cold mix, fly ash, jute and coir geo-textiles, iron and copper slag, cell filled concrete, paneled cement concrete etc.) and \u201cGreen Technologies\u201d in PMGSY roads.\u00a0 The target for use of such materials and technologies during 2017-18 is 10,082 kms.\u00a0 Against this target, in the first quarter of the financial year till June, 2018, 1,235.22 kms have been constructed.\u00a0 The States which are doing particularly well in this field are Rajasthan (381 kms), Punjab (181 kms), Odisha (131.38 kms), Madhya Pradesh (116.07 kms) and Tamil Nadu (102 kms).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, July 6 (Punjab Post Bureau) &#8211; 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