MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (DR. RAGHUVANSH PRASAD SINGH)
(a) to (f) A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.
The Statement referred to in Reply to the Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 451
admitted for Answer on 26.8.2004.
(a) & (b) The unit for planning under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
(PMGSY) is the `Habitation`. The PMGSY seeks to provide Connectivity to all
unconnected Habitations in the rural areas, with a population of more than 500
persons, through good All-weather roads, by the end of the Tenth Plan Period (2007).
In respect of the Hill States, (North-East, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu &
Kashmir, Uttaranchal) and the Desert Areas and Tribal (Schedule V) areas, the
objective is to connect Habitations with a population of 250 persons and above.
(c) to (e) As per Surveys conducted to identify Core Network as part of the PMGSY
programme, about 1.70 lakh Unconnected Habitations (eligible habitations) need to
be connected under the PMGSY. The programme was launched in December, 2000
and subject to availability of funds, the goal is to achieve the coverage by the end of
the Tenth Plan (2007).
(f) The road works are cleared on a year-to-year basis as per the allocation to the
States. A Statement indicating the State-wise number of unconnected habitations
connected up to May 2004 and being connected through road works already cleared is
annexed.
Annexure
Statement referred to in Reply to Part (I) of the Lok Sabha Starred Question No.451 admitted for Reply on 26.8.2004.
No. of Unconnected No. of Unconnected Habitations Habitations being provided connected on completion of road
# Name the State connectivity through road works(upto May 04) works already cleared
1 Andhra Pradesh 913 621
2 Arunachal Pradesh 199 147
3 Assam 2232 860
4 Bihar 1784 273
5 Chattisgarh 2230 832
6 Goa 14 0
7 Gujarat 883 462
8 Haryana 0 0
9 Himachal Pradesh 1034 262
10 Jammu & Kashmir 300 0
11 Jarkhand 1341 243
12 Karnataka 389 351
13 Kerala 87 0
14 Madhya Pradesh 2853 942
15 Mahareshtra 845 259
16 Manipur 0 0
17 Meghalaya 88 26
18 Mizoram 71 30
19 Nagaland 42 12
20 Orissa 2550 1273
21 Punjab 364 301
22 Rajasthan 3726 1947
23 Sikkim 47 0
24 Tamil Nadu 1813 1184
25 Tripura 260 0
26 Uttar Pradesh 3716 2505
27 Uttaranchal 210 40
28 West Bengal 2717 825
Total 30708 13395
