The State Government has targeted to construct 7,000 km of roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana during the current year. This was revealed at a State level steering committee meeting held under chairmanship of Chief Secretary AP Padhi at the Secretariat on Friday. Rural Development Secretary Bishnupada Sethi presented updates for discussion.
Engineer-in-Chief Prabir Pradhan informed that while the MPGSY project had been sanctioned to provide road connectivity to 16,555 villages in the State, 13,976 villages have already got roads. In 2016-17, 5,797 km roads were built and it has been targeted to construct 7,000 km roads during the current year.
Pradhan said all villages would be connected with PMGSY roads by 2019.
By May 2017, a total of 41,010 km roads and 445 bridges have been constructed at a total cost of Rs 17,092 core. It has been estimated that Rs 1,096 crore would be spent for construction of 7,000 km of roads during the current year.It was decided that green technology would be used for construction roads. Soil, morrum, rejected plastic and wastes from steel plant are used in this technology Among others, Works Secretary Nalini Kant Pradhan and Chief Engineer Bharat Chandra Pradhan were present.