SHILLONG, JULY 2: To get over the tardy implementation of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) in Meghalaya, Meghalaya PWD minister Sniawbhalang Dhar informed that to speed up the work the state government is contemplating to create separate PMGSY wings for different districts of the state.
“Speaking to reporters on Tuesday Dhar admitted that compared to other states of the country implementation of PMGSY is slow in Meghalaya. So, he said, the government mooted the idea of creating PMGSY wings to speed up the execution of work. He informed at present Meghalaya is just touching phase-VII of the implementation of PMGSY.
Dhar blamed prolonged monsoon and the hilly terrain for the tardy progress of the PMGSY scheme. He said the working period in Meghalaya is not even six months, which contributes to the slowness of the work.
Under the PMGSY Rural Road Project (RRP-II) funded by World Bank, an amount of Rs 230 crore has been sanctioned for Meghalaya.
The PMGSY RRP-II project is a Rs 6,840 crore ($1.5 bn) operation which will use a programmatic approach to support implementation of the PMGSY programme over a five year period (2011-2015). The participating states included Meghalaya, Jharkhand, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.
Under component-A, Rs 1,071 crore has been earmarked for Meghalaya for over a period of five years. Under the first phase, it has been proposed to provide connectivity to 83 habitations by constructing 262 km road at an estimated cost of Rs 171 crore.
In the second phase, road connectivity will be provided to 432 habitations by constructing 1,363 km road at an estimated cost of Rs 900 crore
It may be mentioned that in January 2012, the State Cabinet had also approved a proposal for outsourcing the preparation of detailed project reports (DPRs) for rural road projects under PMGSY as the state PWD was incapable of undertaking the work by itself.- By Our Reporter
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