Ravi S Singh

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 27

The Centre has requested the states for extra environment friendly implementation and monitoring of the agricultural roads improvement works, being undertaken beneath the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).

The Union Rural Development Ministry, which implements the PMGSY, has made the push with regard to the scheme following experiences of uneven progress of rural roads infrastructure in numerous states.

Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh had additionally expressed concern on the progress of the scheme’s implementation throughout a gathering he took, a couple of days in the past.

The Narendra Modi authorities’s thrust is on holistic rural improvement. The success of the PMGSY is a crucial part within the authorities’s plans about improvement of the villages. 

The highway connectivity to villages and hamlets will, amongst others, assist farmers to successfully hyperlink up with markets to eliminate their items.

Also, it would additional open up the villages to construct up civic infrastructure and modernize themselves, and improve the potential of residents with extra vistas of alternatives in numerous facet of life, together with avenues of self-employment and wage-related jobs.

Development of the villages would act as bulwark towards migrations from villages to the cities.  

The PMGSY, a centrally sponsored scheme, was launched in 2000 with an purpose to offer good all-weather highway connectivity to unconnected villages.

More than seven lakh kms of highway size has been laid since 2014. Besides, 3.25 lakh kms roads have been upgraded over the last three years, he mentioned.

Sources within the Ministry on Friday mentioned {that a} push has additionally been made to be used of recent expertise, improvements and eco-friendly mechanisms, together with supplies, in development of the roads to attain the objective of “Zero percent Carbon Neutral Emission” by the yr 2070 set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

While the Ministry has sounded states within the matter, it would quickly launch a concerted drive relating to it.

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