Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)

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PMGSY Introduction

It is a nationwide plan in the country to offer nice all-weather road connectivity to unconnected Habitations.

PMGSY – Phase I

It was set up in Dec. 2000 as a 100 % centrally funded yojana to provide single all-weather road connectivity to eligible unconnected habitation for the overall socio-economic growth of the regions.

Under the plan, 1,35,436 habitations were selected to offer road connectivity and 3.68 lakh km. to the enhancement of existing rural roads (including up to 40 % rural roads renewal to be funded by States) to make certain full farm to market connectivity.

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Guiding Principles of PMGSY and Definitions

The aim and the soul of PMGSY are to offer great all-weather road connectivity to unconnected village regions.
The unit for this scheme is a Habitation and not a Panchayat or a Revenue village. A Habitation is a mass of the population, living in a region, the location of which does not change over time. Hamlets, Majras, Tolas, Dhanis, Desam, etc. are commonly utilized terms to explain the Habitations.
An disconnected Habitation is one with citizens of designated size situated at a distance of at least 500 meters or more (in case of Hills, 1.5 km of path distance) from a linked Habitation or an All-weather road.
The population, as put down in the Census 2001, shall be the basis to determine the Habitation population size. The Habitations population within a radius of 500 meters (in case of Hills, 1.5 km. of path distance) might be clubbed together for the motive to determine the population size. This group perspective will sanction facilities of connectivity to a wider number of Habitations, especially in the mountainous/Hill regions.
The qualified disconnected Habitations are to be associated to close by Habitations so far connected by an All-weather road or to another existing All-weather road so that services (marketing, health, and educational solution, etc.), which are not accessible in the disconnected Habitation, become present to the residents.
A Core Network is that minimum routes Network that is required to offer Basic access to crucial economic and social services to all eligible habitations in the selected zones through at least solitary all-weather road connectivity.
A Core Network composed of Link Routes and Through Routes as these routes are the ones which assemble traffic from several link roads or a longer chain of Habitations and lead it to Marketing centers either direct way or through the higher category roads i.e., the NH or District Roads or the State. Link routes usually have dead ends terminate on a Habitation, while Through Routes comes to light from the meeting of two or more Link Routes and come out onto a Market Centre or to a major Road.
It should be made certain that each road work that is taken up under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana is a slice of the Core Network. While keeping up the motive of Connectivity in the pond, Choice must be given to those roads which also by chance serve other Habitations.
The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana shall cover only the rural zones. Urban roads are excluded from the ambit of this Programme. Even in the rural areas, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana covers up Rural Roads i.e., Roads that were previously classified as Village Roads (VR) and Other District Roads (ODR) as these roads serve rural zones of production and offer them an outlet to Block headquarters, tehsil headquarters, market centers or other main roads. VR are roads linking Habitation/villages or groups of Habitation to each other and the closeby road of a higher category. NH and State Highways could not be covered up under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, even if they occur to be in rural regions. This applies to New Connectivity roads along with Upgradation works.
The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana envisages only single road Connectivity to be offered. If a Habitation is so far associated with the manner of an All-weather road, then no new work can be boosted under the yojana for that habitation.
Purveying of connectivity to unconnected Habitations will be denoted as New Connectivity. Since the motive of this Yojana is to offer market to farm access, new connectivity might carry new construction where the link to the habitation is missing out and in addition, if required, ‘Upgradation’ where an intermediate link in its current condition cannot work as an all-weather road
Upgradation, when allowed would typically include building the surface and base courses of an existing road to wanted technical specifications and/or improving the road geometrics, as needed by traffic conditions.
The key aim of Yojana is to offer All-weather road connectivity to unconnected village regions. An All-weather road is passable in all seasons of the year. This hinted that the roadbed is drained successfully (by adequate cross-drainage structures like causeways, culverts, and minor bridges), but this does not essentially imply that it must be black-topped or paved, or surfaced. Interruptions to traffic as per permitted duration and frequency may be accepted.
There might be roads that are Fair-weather roads. In other words, they are low end only during the dry season, because of lack of Cross Drainage works. Conversion of such roads to All-weather roads through the provision of Cross Drainage works will be nursed as Upgradation. It should be prominent that on all the road works of this Plan of necessary Cross Drainage works is considered as a necessary element.
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana does not allow repairs to Cement Roads or Black-topped, even if the surface condition is poor.
The Rural Roads built up under the PMGSY will be by the provision of the IRC as given in the Rural Roads Manual. In the case of Hill Roads, for matters not covered up by Rural Roads Manual, provisions of the Hills Roads Manual might apply.