A maximum of 42 roads will be built under the PM's flagship scheme in Deoria district, followed by Amroha with 35 new roads.
May 13, 2020Sitharaman said the government had so far provided all weather connectivity to over 97 habitations in rural areas under PMGSY.
July 5, 2019A remote village in Kangra district is finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel.
December 3, 2018As the nation bid tearful adieu to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who died on Thursday, the hill folks will always remain indebted to the towering leader for his vision of providing connectivity to rural and tribal areas of Himachal Pradesh. While the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) conceived and implemented during Vajpayee’s …
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August 18, 2018Principal Finance Secretary Mr Tuhinkant Pandey said that the increase in Minimum Support Price (MSP) as announced in the Union Budget will raise several issues and challenges at the implementation stage. Every economist knows that MSP and Inflation highly co-related and any increase in MSP will eventually result into price hike in agricultural products, he …
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February 9, 2018Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik welcomed the increase in MSP and the National Health Protection scheme announced in the Union Budget on Thurday, but expressed his disappointment over less allocation for Scs.Sts , low allocation for MGNREGA , MDM, PMGSY and NHM. In his reaction to the Union Budget, the CM said “it has been our …
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February 2, 2018The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), the scheme building roads in states with historical deficit of rural roads, has constructed 10,556 km of roads during the first quarter of 2017-18, clocking an average of 117.28 km per day, according to latest data. This compares favourably with the first quarter of 2016-17 (April-June, 2016), when …
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July 5, 2017Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Saturday said three schemes of his Ministry, MGNREGA, Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), had generated a record 813.76 crore mandays of work in the last three years. Addressing the media on the achievements of his ministry in the last three years …
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May 27, 2017