Orissa's PMGSY fund spend

The Orissa government has utilised 95.29 per cent of the funds received under the Centrally sponsored Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) till July-end. Out of Rs 8,104.59 crore received from the Government of India, the state has utilied Rs 7,723.03 crore. At a recent review meeting of PMGSY held under the chairmanship of the state Chief Secretary BK Patnaik, SN Tripathi, Principal Secretary (Rural Development), said that agai­nst the sanctioned length of 29,875.12 km, 21,168.49 km of roads have been completed. A total number of 5,470 roads have been commissioned under the scheme. It may be noted that there has been an almost five-fold increase in fund utilisation under the PMGSY over the past five years.