Parliament Question: Length of rural roads under PMGSY in Kerala

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT RAJYA SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3347 TO BE ANSWERED ON 20/03/2026 LENGTH OF RURAL ROADS UNDER PMGSY IN KERALA 3347 Smt. P. T. Usha: Will the Minister of Rural Development be pleased to state: (a) the total length of rural roads sanctioned in the State of Kerala under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) during the last five years, district-wise; (b) the number and length of road works completed and the number and length of works pending, district-wise; and (c) the reasons for delay in completion of pending works, if any and the steps taken by Government to expedite their completion? ANSWER MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI KAMLESH PASWAN) (a): A total of 1421.068 km of road length has been sanctioned under various verticals of PMGSY in the state of Kerala during the last five years. The district-wise details are annexed at Annexure-I. (b): A total of 126 roads with 932.981 km of length have been completed during last five years and 158 road with 480.963 km of length is pending to be completed. The district-wise details are annexed at Annexure-II. (c): The reasons for delay in completion of some projects are delay in award of projects by the State, parallel works under Jal Jeevan Mission/Water Supply or such, causing interruptions, sanctioning of works with Mechanical Surface Dressing (MSD) technology, delay in forest clearance, delay in award of works, financial capability of states to release funds on time and climatic conditions during monsoon season and so on. State Governments/UT administrations are advised through various Regional Review Meetings, Performance Review Committee meetings & Empowered Committee meetings being conducted with the States/UTs to expedite timely completion of road works under PMGSY and sort out any bottlenecks coming in the way. Necessary hand-holding of the States/UTs is also being done through various workshops being organized in the States as well as by holding inter- departmental meetings, etc. The following steps in this regard have been taken by the Ministry: i. States/UTs have been requested to augment executing capacity and contracting capacity and their compliance in this regard is regularly reviewed. ii. Bidding document provisions have been rationalized. iii. Training is imparted to field engineers and contractors as well as their staff for capacity building. iv. Regular and structured review of physical & financial parameters is conducted at regular interval in various zones for a cluster of states of that zone. ***** Page 1 of 3Annexure-I Annexure referred to in reply to Part (a) of Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3347 to be answered on 20.03.2026 regarding "Length of rural roads under PMGSY in Kerala" Sr.No. District Name Total Sanctioned Road Length (in km) 1 Alappuzha 59.983 2 Ernakulam 146.379 3 Idukki 138.162 4 Kannur 109.849 5 Kasaragod 70.907 6 Kollam 96.437 7 Kottayam 101.052 8 Kozhikode 74.389 9 Malappuram 136.268 10 Palakkad 135.815 11 Pathanamthitta 45.753 12 Thiruvananthapuram 114.005 13 Thrissur 122.979 14 Wayanad 69.090 Total 1,421.068 Page 2 of 3Annexure-II Annexure referred to in reply to Part (b) of Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3347 to be answered on 20.03.2026 regarding "Length of rural roads under PMGSY in Kerala" Sr. No of road Total BT No of road works Pending BT No. District Name works completed pending for completion completed length (in km) completion length (in km) 1 Alappuzha 5 41.804 9 17.846 2 Ernakulam 9 88.960 17 56.172 3 Idukki 8 75.274 16 62.713 4 Kannur 11 80.128 8 29.173 5 Kasaragod 11 69.398 2 1.173 6 Kollam 5 50.202 17 44.351 7 Kottayam 12 78.099 11 22.849 8 Kozhikode 5 44.264 9 29.921 9 Malappuram 22 108.647 9 27.589 10 Palakkad 7 77.085 18 58.637 11 Pathanamthitta 2 25.031 9 20.72 12 Thiruvananthapuram 12 81.77 11 30.928 13 Thrissur 13 73.739 15 48.381 14 Wayanad 4 38.58 7 30.51 Total 126 932.981 158 480.963 ***** Page 3 of 3