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PRADHAN MANTRI GRAM
SADAK YOJANA(PMGSY)
 Pradhan
Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana popularly known as ‘PMGSY’ is a scheme that was
launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri. Atal Bihari Vajpayee on the
25th of December 2000, to bridge the gap between the “Urban India & the
Rural Bharat”. The Pradhan Mantri Garm Sadak Yojana is a centrally
funded scheme with the Ministry of Rural Development as the Nodal
Agency. It seeks to support the states in achieving road connectivity
through construction of good quality all weather roads to the rural
population.
Road connectivity is one of the important factors in physical
development of the villages. The Primary objective of the PMGSY is to
provide connectivity by way of All-weather Road (with necessary culverts
and cross-drainage structures, which are motorable throughout the year),
to the unconnected habitations in the rural areas.
Besides providing connectivity to the Habitations, the PMGSY also aims
to upgrade, the existing rural roads to desired specifications.
The PMGSY envisages minimal network of road i.e. network of the road
that is essential to provide basic access to essential social economic
services to all eligible habitations in the selected area through at
least a single all weather road connectivity.
ROAD SPECIFICATIONS UNDER PMGSY
The Rural roads constructed under
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana must meet the Technical specifications
laid down by the Indian Road Congress (IRC)
& is given in the Rural Road Manual (IRC:SP20:2002).
The primary focus of PMGSY is to provide All-Weather road connectivity
to unconnected habitations. All-Weather road is one which is negotiable
during all weathers. This implies that the road-bed is drained
effectively by cross-drainage structures such as culverts, minor bridges
and causeways, along with the cross drainage structures, side gutters &
complete road furniture that includes sign-boards, milestones etc.
The PMGSY specifies that the length of the road has to be more than
500 m & allows for carriageway of 3.0 m
where the traffic intensity is less than 100
motorized vehicles per day & where the traffic is not likely
to increase due to situation like dead end, low Habitation and difficult
terrain condition. To ensure economy in respect of link roads, the
carriageway width may be restricted to 3.0m in all such cases with the
corresponding road way width etc.as per the Rural Roads Manual.
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