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O.I.H.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 431
ANSWERED ON 22/07/2025
CONSTRUCTION AND UPGRADATION OF RURAL ROADS UNDER
PMGSY
431. DR. SHIVAJI BANDAPPA KALGE:
SHRI BALYA MAMA SURESH GOPINATH MHATRE:
SHRI BHUMARE SANDIPANRAO ASARAM:
SMT. DELKAR KALABEN MOHANBHAI:
SHRI GYANESHWAR PATIL:
Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:
(a) the present status of the construction and upgradation of rural
roads in the country under the Pradhan Mantri Gram
SadakYojana (PMGSY) launched by the Government, State-
wise;
(b) whether all the targeted rural habitations have been provided
with all-weather road connectivity;
(c) if so, the details thereof including Maharashtra, Dadra and
Nagar Haveli, Madhya Pradesh;
(d) the steps taken by the Government to ensure maintenance and
quality of rural roads;
(e) whether any long-term maintenance policy is in place in this
regard; and
(f) if so, the details thereof, State-wise including Dadra and Nagar
Haveli and MadhyaPradesh?
ANSWER
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN)
(a): A total of 8,38,611 km of road length has been sanctioned
under all verticals/ interventions of Pradhan Mantri Gram
SadakYojana (PMGSY) since inception till 11.07.2025 and 7,82,945
kms has been completed. The State/UT-wise status of construction
and upgradation of rural roads under various interventions/verticals
Page 1 of 5of PMGSY, since inception till date (as on 11.07.2025), is given at
Annexure. State-wise and intervention/vertical-wise details are
available on the programme website at www.omms.nic.in - >
Progress Monitoring -> Monthly Progress Report (MPR). The timeline
for completion of ongoing works under PMGSY I (in Chhattisgarh) ,
PMGSY II, III and Road Connectivity Project for Left Wing Extremism
Affected Areas (RCPLWEA) is March 2026.
(b) & (c): PMGSY-I was launched as a one-time special intervention
to provide rural connectivity, by way of a single all-weather road, to
the eligible unconnected habitations of designated population size
as per Census 2001. Since inception, till 11.07.2025, a total of
1,63,339 habitations have been sanctioned and 1,62,818 habitations
have been provided connectivity in various States/ UTs, including
Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. Thus, 99.68% of targeted
habitations have been provided all-weather road connectivity. The
details of habitations that have been provided road connectivity
under PMGSY-I in the States of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh
are as under:-
State Sanctioned Connected
habitations (Nos.) habitations (Nos.)
Maharashtra 1,420 1,417
Madhya Pradesh 17,522 17,522
The timeline for completion of works under PMGSY I for the above
States was March, 2025. No PMGSY proposal was received from the
Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
The State/UT-wise details may be accessed at programme website
www.omms.nic.in -> Progress Monitoring -> Habitation Coverage
under PMGSY.
(d) to (f): "Rural Roads" is a State subject, and as per PMGSY
guidelines, maintenance of roads constructed under the programme
is the responsibility of the State/UT governments. However Ministry
has taken the following steps/measures to ensure that the roads
constructed under PMGSY are maintained properly in all
States, including in Madhya Pradesh :
(i) Roads are covered under a 5-year maintenance contract to be
entered into along with a construction contract with the same
contractor as per the Standard Bidding Document (SBD). Since the
design life of PMGSY roads is ten years, the States have to
Page 2 of 5undertake further five years of maintenance. While implementing
PMGSY-III a MoU was signed with the States for undertaking post
five-year maintenance. The new connectivity under PMGSY-IV will
be permitted to only those States/UTs who have demonstrated
through electronic Maintenance of Rural Roads (eMARG) platform
that the routine maintenance of PMGSY roads constructed in their
State, post 5 years of construction of the road, has been carried out.
The post five-year construction module of eMARG incorporates
initial rehabilitation, renewal, pre- renewal routine maintenance,
post-renewal maintenance and emergency repair works, as
required.
(ii) Maintenance funds to service the contract are required to be
budgeted by the State Governments and placed at the disposal of
the State Rural Roads Development Agencies (SRRDAs) in a
separate maintenance account. On expiry of this 5 year post
construction maintenance, PMGSY roads are required to be placed
under Zonal maintenance contracts consisting of 5 year
maintenance including renewal as per maintenance cycle, from time
to time, to be funded by the state governments.
(iii) All States have framed their own rural roads maintenance
policies based on the policy framework prepared by the National
Rural Infrastructure Development Agency (NRIDA), a technical arm
of the Ministry of Rural Development.
(iv) To bring execution of the Programme to the desired quality
standards, a three tier quality management mechanism has been
institutionalized under PMGSY. First-tier of this mechanism is in-
house quality control at Programme Implementation Unit (PIU)
level. Objective of this tier is process control through mandatory
tests on material at field laboratory and workmanship. Second-tier
is structured as an independent quality monitoring at State level
through State Quality Monitors (SQMs) in which provision of regular
inspection of works has been envisaged for ensuring better quality.
Under the Third-tier, independent National Quality Monitors (NQMs)
are deployed by NRIDA for inspection of road works on random
sample basis not only to monitor quality but also to provide
guidance by senior professionals to the field functionaries. The
observations of NQMs are sent for action to the State Governments
and Action Taken Reports (ATRs) are monitored at NRIDA.
(v) The implementation of all sanctioned works including its
maintenance is regularly monitored through online programme
Page 3 of 5Monitoring Information System named Online Management,
Monitoring and Accounting System (OMMAS) on real time basis.
(vi) In addition, maintenance of PMGSY roads is also regularly
reviewed by the Ministry by way of Regional Review Meetings
(RRMs), Performance Review Committee (PRC) Meetings, Pre-
Empowered/ Empowered Committee Meetings with the States.
Besides above, special review meetings/monthly review meetings
are also held by the Secretary/ Additional Secretary/Joint Secretary,
Ministry of Rural Development, with Chief Secretaries/Principal
Secretaries of the States to take stock of the progress of the
scheme, including maintenance aspects.
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Page 4 of 5Annexure
Annexure referred to in part (a) of LokSabhaUnstarred Question No. 431 for
22.07.2025
State/UTs wise current status of the construction and upgradation of rural roads
across the country under various interventions/ verticals of the PMGSY since
inception till date (11-7-2025)
Sr. State/UT Sanctioned Completed
No. New Upgradation Total New Upgradation Total
Connectivity Connectivity
Length Length
Length (km) Length (km) Length (km) Length (km)
(km) (km)
1 Andaman & 26.88 351.40 378.27 26.07 113.46 139.53
Nicobar
2 Andhra 4,564.98 15,908.71 20,473.69 3,708.35 14,600.47 18,308.83
Pradesh
3 Arunachal 14,515.17 2,273.56 16,788.73 12,933.51 1,254.52 14,188.02
Pradesh
4 Assam 26,902.58 6,008.92 32,911.50 26,734.29 5,297.28 32,031.58
5 Bihar 49,220.41 16,394.46 65,614.87 47,249.72 14,804.92 62,054.64
6 Chhattisgarh 32,652.53 15,536.06 48,188.58 28,928.09 14,342.00 43,270.09
7 Goa 1.02 217.45 218.47 0.00 155.33 155.33
8 Gujarat 5,312.20 10,380.92 15,693.11 5,244.38 10,175.75 15,420.14
9 Haryana 2.00 8,108.67 8,110.67 2.00 8,040.49 8,042.49
10 Himachal 14,902.99 10,064.77 24,967.76 14,532.16 7,810.40 22,342.56
Pradesh
11 Jammu & 17,498.81 5,083.96 22,582.77 15,047.14 4,656.50 19,703.64
Kashmir
12 Jharkhand 23,523.06 11,111.05 34,634.11 22,037.17 9,626.68 31,663.85
13 Karnataka 656.78 23,611.01 24,267.78 591.95 23,372.59 23,964.53
14 Kerala 703.03 4,609.30 5,312.33 681.01 3,854.78 4,535.79
15 Ladakh 660.50 998.58 1,659.07 567.48 541.63 1,109.11
16 Madhya 57,474.38 37,966.14 95,440.52 53,903.87 36,200.31 90,104.18
Pradesh
17 Maharashtra 4,451.08 30,025.08 34,476.16 4,246.40 27,588.32 31,834.72
18 Manipur 9,736.10 2,720.05 12,456.15 8,948.91 1,945.92 10,894.83
19 Meghalaya 3,059.13 2,919.42 5,978.55 3,001.55 1,964.18 4,965.72
20 Mizoram 4,179.37 755.25 4,934.63 4,156.17 482.23 4,638.40
21 Nagaland 3,129.94 1,797.23 4,927.17 3,087.80 1,234.61 4,322.41
22 Odisha 46,060.08 28,664.79 74,724.87 43,950.36 27,240.36 71,190.72
23 Puducherry 0.00 174.13 174.13 0.00 62.36 62.36
24 Punjab 833.25 10,811.39 11,644.64 833.25 9,580.97 10,414.22
25 Rajasthan 50,131.55 28,135.72 78,267.27 48,460.93 27,298.15 75,759.08
26 Sikkim 3,418.51 1,801.61 5,220.12 3,255.91 1,552.71 4,808.62
27 Tamil Nadu 3,701.11 22,935.91 26,637.02 3,666.81 21,688.67 25,355.48
28 Telangana 3,079.11 11,570.64 14,649.75 2,782.26 10,035.36 12,817.62
29 Tripura 3,925.38 2,293.46 6,218.85 3,491.24 1,548.99 5,040.23
30 Uttar Pradesh 21,324.03 56,101.12 77,425.15 20,880.46 54,444.41 75,324.88
31 Uttarakhand 18,552.67 4,043.40 22,596.07 18,175.61 3,061.14 21,236.75
32 West Bengal 23,323.64 17,714.94 41,038.58 23,101.45 14,143.46 37,244.91
Grand Total 447,522.23 391,089.11 838,611.34 424,226.31 358,718.93 782,945.24
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