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May 2017
On May
22, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) tweeted it had ratcheted the pace of rural
road construction under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) to 133 km
a day over the three years to 2016-17, up from 69.35 km a day in 2013-14. The Total Investment & Insurance
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However,
compared with the Narendra Modi government's own performance in the first two
years, the pace of rural road construction has slackened, connecting, up to
January 2017, less than half (46 per cent) of the habitations targeted under
PMGSY-I in 2016-17, an IndiaSpend analysis of Rural Development Ministry data
shows. The Total Investment &
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In its
manifesto, the BJP had made three major promises on roads: It would connect
tribal hamlets with all-weather roads, improve village-level road
infrastructure, and connect ports with roads to the hinterland. While
standalone data on roads connecting tribal hamlets are not available, on roads
connecting ports to the hinterland, consolidated numbers are available only up
to 2013.
In case
of rural roads, for which data are available, the pace of construction has
slackened. as noted above. Less than half of the habitations targeted under
PMGSY-I for 2016-17 had been connected by January 2017. The length of roads
built as a share of the government's target has also dropped from 167 per cent
in 2014-15 and 108 per centin 2015-16 to 73 per cent in 2016-17, according to
IndiaSpend's analysis of data available up to January 2017. The Total Investment & Insurance
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PMGSY-I
aims to build all-weather roads to habitations with a population of at least
500 in plain areas and at least 250 in "special" areas such as hills
or tribal hamlets and located at least 500m (1.5 km of path distance in case of
hills) from an all-weather road or a connected habitation.
The
good news is that under Modi, allocation to the rural roads scheme has risen
back to the Rs 19,000-crore peak seen under Manmohan Singh's prime ministership
-- it had subsequently dropped to Rs 9,000 crore during the Congress-led United
Progressive Alliance's second term -- an analysis by the Centre for Policy
Research (CPR) shows. The Total
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The
time taken to complete a project after sanction under PMGSY has also fallen
progressively by 74 per cent to 124 days under Modi, from 474 days under
UPA-II's final year 2013-14, according to CPR's analysis. Compared with Modi's
first year, the time taken has fallen by 67 per cent in 2016-17, from 374 days
in 2014-15. The Total Investment &
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In
2016-17, the pace of construction of national highways has also dropped to 44
per cent, the lowest in this government's three-year rule. This year has seen
an average rate of highway construction of 22 km a day, according to
information provided to the Rajya Sabha in April 2017.
The
government had initially set a target of building 40 km a day. Roads and
Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari claimed at an Aaj Tak Editors Roundtable on
May 21, that targets had been intentionally set higher than feasible to
"push the bar higher".The
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