Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)
Prime Minister's Village Road Scheme
Launched25 December 2000; 23 years ago (2000-12-25)
StatusActive
Websitepmgsy.nic.in
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The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) (transl. Prime Minister's Village Road Scheme) is a nationwide plan in India to provide good all-weather road connectivity to unconnected villages.[1] Of 178,000 (1.7 lakh) habitations with a population of above 500 in the plains and above 250 in the hilly areas planned to be connected by all-weather roads, 82% were already connected by December 2017 and work-in-progress on the remaining 47,000 habitations was on-track for completion by March 2019 (c. December 2017).[2]

This Centrally Sponsored Scheme[3] was introduced in 2000 by the then-prime minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee.[4] The Assam Tribune has reported that the scheme has started to change the lifestyle of many villagers as it has resulted in new roads and upgrade of certain inter-village routes in Manipur.[5]

  1. ^ "PMGSY Scheme Operations Manual Chapter 1". Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference gramdev1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Report of the committee on restructuring of Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS)". Planning Commission, Government of India. Archived from the original on 2 April 2014.
  4. ^ Arvind Panagariya. "A leader of substance: Along with Narasimha Rao, Atal Bihari Vajpayee laid the foundation of new India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 29 December 2012.
  5. ^ "PMGSY roads changing lifestyle in Manipur". The Assam Tribune. Archived from the original on 15 December 2013. Retrieved 16 February 2022.