KOLKATA, 22 MAY: State panchayat and rural development minister Subrata Mukherjee today asked all zilla sabhadhipatis and district magistrates to submit a detailed project report (DPR) for at least 5,000 km of roads across the state under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) by 14 June 2012.
Mr Mukherjee today held a series of meetings with elected representatives, district magistrates and engineers to ensure that the reports are submitted within the given deadline.

The Union Cabinet has cleared a . 8,500-crore rural roads package to ensure growth and remove Maoist influence in forested tribal areas.
The three-year roads programme, under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY), will provide connectivity to 6,000 habitations in 78 Maoist-affected districts, which have been left out of the core network.

The Union Minister for Rural Development, Mr Jairam Ramesh, on Saturday said the Centre would grant Rs 4,000 crore for two metal road projects in West Bengal.

Under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), the projects include conversion of ‘murram’ to metal road for 5,733 km and fresh road for 4,000 km.

“The State Government will have to provide the detailed project report for the 5,733-km project by October 24, while DPR for the other project for 4,000 km has to be submitted by June 24,” Mr Ramesh told newspersons here.

If an ambitious state road development plan approved by the public works department is implemented, then by 2021, all the national highways passing through Maharashtra will be expressways with a minimum of four lanes, ring roads will be constructed for all districts and all tehsils will have bypass roads.

Experts recommend use of green technologies including cold mix to expedite road construction

Gangtok: Sikkim’s Green Mission Programme started in 2006 has catapulted the State as among the most clean and green in the country. This has been possible due to the various innovative environment-friendly initiatives taken by the Green Chief Minister Pawan Chamling. Along with the protection and conservation of its rich biodiversity, the adoption of green rural roads in the State can play a vital role in the development of the State as well as help achieve its Green Mission Programme, said experts at a media workshop on Tuesday.

Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh today rejected 18,000 km of road projects under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) proposed by the West Bengal government. He made the announcement at a high-level meeting attended among others by West Bengal rural development secretary Saurav Das. The state government delegation had sought Central approval for the projects in different parts of the state. The roads connect at least 6,000 habitations and were declared as “connected by the erstwhile Left regime”.

Contractors abandon 36 projects under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
Jammu: Many road projects in the state have got delayed as a number of contractors who were allotted these mega projects under the national flagship Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) have failed to complete the work in the stipulated time. A majority of these contractors have left the projects midway, delaying the completion of these projects.

JAMMU : Equating dependable road communication with economic prosperity, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Thursday emphasized the need for dovetailing various road development schemes to obtain holistic results and expand benefit orbit.

Taking stock of the progress and status of flagship programme PMGSY here, the Chief Minister said that linking rural and remote areas with highways is all the more important in a State like Jammu and Kashmir with a hilly and difficult terrain.

Building roads in rural areas is the job of State Governments and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana was not a long-term solution to the problem of lack of roads, the Rural Development Minister, Mr Jairam Ramesh, said today.

“If the Central Government focused on construction of rural roads and their repairs and maintenance, then it will have no money to spend on creating other infrastructure,” the Minister said, adding “we have to recognise its limitations”.

Mr Ramesh was speaking at the inauguration of a seminar on ‘Engendering Physical Infrastructure via PMGSY' here.

GUWAHATI: Continuing its support for rural infrastructure development in Assam, NABARD has sanctioned two projects to the Assam Government under RIDF-XVII for a total sum of Rs 138.34 crores. Under the two projects, a total of Rs 16.73 crore have been sanctioned for 5 rural road projects in Golaghat district while Rs 121.61 have been sanctioned for 102 rural bridge projects in 26 districts of the State.