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| Targets of PMGSY-I still incomplete even after 20 years | | Dismal performance in construction of PMGSY roads | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Mar 12: Meant to provide connectivity to remote and far flung habitations the Pradhan Mantri Grammen Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) has been showing dismal performance with executing agencies failed to achieve even half of the targets set up for last two financial years. The targets undertaken under PMGSY Phase-I, which begun in the year 2000 are still incomplete even after the lapse of over 20 years.
According to latest details available with Early Times, for the financial year 2019-20, the target of road length constructed in Jammu and Kashmir was setup as 3000 kilometres but executing agencies have succeed to complete 1175 kilometres, making it merely 39 percent. Similarly for the financial year 2018-19, the target length set up was 2800 kilometres but merely 1559 kilometre road length was completed.
However for the financial year 2017-18, the performance was quite promising as out of the target length of 1800 kilometres 1760 kilometres road length was completed.
Moreover, in the phase-1 of PMGSY, which begun in December 2000 the total road length sanctioned for construction was 18432 kilometres along with 234 long span bridges but out of these targets, the executing agencies are able to complete road length of merely 12809 kilometres along with 102 bridges. It simply means that after lapse of around 20 years, since the start of PMGSY-I, road length of over 5623 kilometres and 132 long span bridges is still pending to be completed till March 2021.
Similarly in the phase-II, which started in the year 2013, the total road length to be constructed was targeted as 704 kilometres along with only 7 long span bridges but out of these targets only 29 kilometres of road length is completed while no bridge is constructed after lapse of around 8 years.
The phase-III of PMGSY begun in the December 2019 and target of road length to be completed is 1750 kilometres but after lapse of over one year, no proposals have been forwarded by the UT administration about the number of habitations to be covered, number of long span bridges to be completed or some other details.
The dismal performance in the construction of roads could be due to various factors including delay in grant of forest clearance and other No objection certificates (NOCs) to contractors but it ultimately causes inconvenience to the masses, who have been waiting for the facility of roads to their habitations since independence. |
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