Total budgetary allocation for the sector (including PMGSY) raised by 6.7 per cent to Rs 89,544 crore from Rs 83,900 crore in the previous year.
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Tag: PMGSY
PM reviews infra performance, calls for adherence to deadlines
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reviewed the progress of key infrastructure sectors, including roads, railways, airports, ports and coal.
Record 47,350 km of PMGSY roads constructed in 2016-17
A record 47,350 km of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) roads was constructed during 2016-17. This is the highest construction of PMGSY roads in a single year, in the last seven years. While 25,316 km of PMGSY roads were constructed in 2013-14, road construction in 2014-15 was 36,337 km and in 2015-16, it was 36,449 km.
Sandeep Upadhyay, Managing Director and CEO, Centrum Infrastructure Advisory Limited
Budget should focus on higher funds allocation to infrastructure and improving domestic macroeconomic fundamentals
The priority of the Budget should be to improve the macroeconomic fundamentals of the country and make efforts to meet the fiscal deficit targets of last year. The onus should be on productive utilisation of funds.
Connectivity project approved for Left Wing Extremism affected areas
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved a Centrally sponsored scheme, ´Road Connectivity Project for Left Wing Extremism (LWE) Affected Areas´ to improve the rural road connectivity in the worst LWE affected districts from the security angle.
Country Roads, City Roads, and the Roads in between
Many of us know that the celebrated economist John Maynard Keynes famously said that (in times of slowdown) the government should pay people to dig holes in the ground and then fill them up
Rural road target an uphill task for Odisha
After reducing the deadline for completion of rural roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) by three years from 2022 to 2019
ADB funding 31,000 km rural roads
To support development programmes in India, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is involved in constructing or upgrading 31,000 km of rural roads
NBCC bags order worth Rs.2.31 bn
National Buildings Construction Corporation (NBCC)has secured project management and consultancy (PMC) business of Rs 2.31 billion from IIT, Roorkee. Earlier, the company has been entrusted PMGSY works valued at Rs 12.37 billion in Odisha
Towards accessible hinterlands
Those against central-state joint participation and champions of the “federal structure” should learn the rural roads case study. Without the Rs 132,000 crore Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)