GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

LOK SABHA

UNSTARREDQUESTION NO: 309

ANSWERED ON: 30.08.2012

ROLE OF PANCHAYATS IN PMGSY 

(a) whether the responsibility for construction of roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sada Yojana (PMGSY) in the naxalite-hit areas in the country is liely to be discharged by the Panchayats; 

(b) if so, the details thereof; 

(c) the reasons for limiting the said decision only to the naxalite hit areas in the country;

  (d) whether the Government proposes to mae the responsibility of the Panchayat more significant by extending the above decision to the panchayats across the country; and 

(e) if so, the details thereof and the time by which the same is liely to be done? 

ANSWER

(a) to (e): Rural roads is a State subject and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sada Yojana (PMGSY) is implemented through State Rural Road Development Agency (SRRDA) at State level and Programme Implementation Unit (PIU) at district level. The Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) of the roads are prepared by the PIU in accordance with the technical standards of the PMGSY programme and the construction is done by contractors based on tenders invited by the PIU/SRRDA. There is no proposal to entrust responsibility for construction of PMGSY roads to Panchayat in any part of the country.