The Minister of State in the Ministry of Rural Development Pradeep Jain “Aditya” informed the Rajya Sabha State wise details of the works under Pradan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) approved by the Ministry of Rural Development after scrutiny by National Rural Road Development Agency (NRRDA) is given in Annexure.
Under PMGSY 1,02,563 works valued at Rs. 1,11,361 crore have been approved by the Ministry of Rural Development till 30th September, 2009. An amount of Rs.57,483 crore has been released to the States. The State Governments have incurred expenditure of Rs.54,985 crore and completed 63,670 works till September, 2009. Hence the expenditure as percentage of sanctioned cost is 49.3% and completion of works is 62%. Expenditure as percentage of fund released to the states is 96%. The minister further stated that initially, it was envisaged to achieve the targets under PMGSY by end of 10th Five Year Plan. This could not be achieved due to reasons mentioned below:
(i) Inadequate resources
(ii) Inadequate project execution capacity in states
(iii) Inadequate contracting capacity in some states
(iv) Issues related to availability of land and delay in forest clearance
At present, no target has been fixed for completion of the works under PMGSY.
Source: PIB
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