At the 24th Executive Committee meeting of the State Rural Road Development Authority held at Mantralaya, the Minister for Panchayat and Rural Development Kamleshwar Patel directed that roads in rural areas should be maintained on priority. Also, in the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, roads under guarantee period should be maintained by the concerned contractor.

Minister Patel said that the intention of the State Government is to extend the development schemes to the rural areas. Villagers should not face any inconvenience in visiting nearby cities. He said that roads contribute the most in rural development. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the quality of construction of roads in rural areas. He directed that a state-level team should be constituted to monitor quality of the construction of roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojana.

The Chief Executive Officer of the State Rural Road Development Authority (MPRRDA), Umakant Umrao informed in the meeting that 84,936 km roads constructed by the Authority in the first and second phase of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana are being maintained. Connectivity is being provided to villages upto 250 population from Mandi Fund. He informed that under the scheme, construction of 380 km roads have been completed at a cost of Rs 250 crores. Two hundred 81 villages have been benefitted from this.

It was informed in the meeting that out of 10 thousand kilometers roads previously constructed under the Mukhyamantri Gram Sadak Yojana, 6707 kilometres roads have been asphalted. Presently, the work of asphalting 428 km rural roads is in progress.