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Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana-IV

  • 16 Sep 2024
  • 1 min read

Source: IE

The Union Cabinet has approved the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana - IV (PMGSY-IV) for the period 2024-25 to 2028-29, aiming to enhance rural connectivity by constructing 62,500 km of new all-weather roads.

  • Coverage: The initiative will connect 25,000 unconnected habitations with populations of over 500 in plains, over 250 in Northeast and hill states, and over 100 in Left Wing Extremism (LWE)-affected districts.
    • The new roads are expected to catalyse socio-economic development in remote rural areas and improve access to educational, health, market, and growth centres. The scheme is designed to create 40 crore human-days of work employment. 
  • PMGSY is a central government scheme launched in 2000 to provide all-weather road connectivity to unconnected rural habitations.
    • The scheme was originally a 100% centrally-sponsored initiative, but starting from the financial year 2015-16, the funding has been shared between the Central and State governments in a 60:40 ratio.
    • Around 800,000 kilometres of rural roads have been built and 180,000 habitations were connected under various phases of the PMGSY scheme.

Read more:  Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

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