3865 VILLAGES CONNECTED WITH ROADS IN 33 MONTHS<\/p>\n
Jaipur, September 29. Over 12,365 kms. long bitumen roads have been constructed and 3865 villages connected with roads with an estimated cost of Rs.1605 crores under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Project’ in a period of 33 months from December, 2003 to August, 2006 in the state. On an average 12 km. road had been constructed and four villages connected with road per day during the period, whereas 3963 kms. roads had been constructed and 918 villages connected with road with the cost of Rs.502 crores during a period of 36 months from December, 2000 to November, 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This information was given in the presentation of the Public Works Department in the presence of the Chief Minister, Smt. Vasundhara Raje and the PWD Minister, Shri Rajendra Rathore here on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The PWD Minister informed that Rajasthan was the leading state in the implementation of ‘Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Project’ in the country. He informed that the PWD Department had undertaken development works to the tune of Rs.3076 crores in the last more than 2 and half years, whereas works costing Rs. 1905 crores only had been undertaken in the five years of the previous government rule. He said that on an average Rs.1119 crores had been spent per year in the nearly three years of the present government, while Rs.381 crores per year on an average had been spent during the five year period of December, 1998 to November, 2003. <\/p>\n
The Principal Secretary PWD Shri C.S. Rajan gave a detailed information about the achievements and the different activities of the PWD Department in the presentation. It was informed that a provision of undertaking works of Rs.2526 crores had been made by the department in the current financial year which was 42 percent more than the provision of the last year. He informed that against the provision of Rs.606 crores on road sector from state plan head this year, Rs. 332 crores had been spent upto August 2006, which was 53 percent of the annual provision. He informed that Rs.1100 crores were being spent under the ‘Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Project’ this year. <\/p>\n
Work relating to strengthening of 1053 kms. long roads under the Mega Highway Project First Phase was in progress in the state. This work would be completed by May, 2008. Under the second phase of the project strengthening of 1267 kms. long roads with an estimated cost of Rs.1258 crores would be undertaken. Sanction of Rs. 831 crores had been received for four projects out of the seven projects proposed under the scheme. <\/p>\n
Keeping in view the safe and easy transport 57 bye-passes will be constructed under the Agenda 2008. Of this 28 bye-passes will be constructed under the mega highway project one, 53 under the mega highway project second<\/p>\n
and 16 bye-passes under the NHDP. Besides 37 railway over bridges will be constructed, of which 11 will be constructed under mega highway project first, 10 under mega highway project second and 13 other railway over bridges have been sanctioned from the state plan head. Along with this 18 bridges will also be constructed on state highways and prominent district roads. <\/p>\n
Rural connectivity roads will also be extended under the Agenda 2008. All villages having a population of more than 750 will be connected with road by March, 2007. Similarly villages with a population of more than 500 will be connected with road by December, 2007 and after that the desert and tribal villages having a population of more than 250 will be connected by road in the year 2008-09. The remaining 188 panchayat headquarters will be connected by roads upto December, 2008 and after that cent percent panchayat headquarters will be connected with road in the state. <\/p>\n
Special scheme has also been formulated for proper maintenance and care of the roads constructed earlier. Over Rs. 307 crores had been spent on the improvement of 4000 km. roads which had been left from the state highways and the prominent district level roads for improvement. Similarly Rs. 242 crores had been spent on the improvement of 6065 kms. rural roads, out of the 12000 km. roads left for improvement. Cement-concrete roads will be constructed on state highways and important district roads passing through all 183 urban bodies in the state under the Agenda 2008.<\/p>\n
Over Rs. 20.50 crores had been sanctioned earlier for the repair of roads affected by floods in different areas of the state. The Chief Minister have also sanctioned Rs.35 crores besides this amount and now a provision of Rs.55.50 crores have been made for the repair of roads in the flood affected areas. This repair work is in progress. <\/p>\n
It is to be noted that a network of 1.69 lakh kms. roads have been laid in the state, of which the National Highway and the State Highway roads was only 14.5 percent, which bear 85 percent share of the total transport. Nearly 52 percent villages had been connected with roads upto November, 2003 and now 62 percent villages have been connected with roads upto August, 2006 in the state. Over 75 percent villages will be connected by bitumen roads by December, 2007 in the state. (DIPR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rajasthan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}