Just 48-hours after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi accused state government for poor conditions of road in his Parliament constituency, Central government has sanctioned 134 rural roads in the second batch of the Prime Minister Gramin Sadak Yojgna (PMGSY)-11 in Uttar Pradesh during the current fiscal year. Union Rural Development minister Jairam Ramesh in a letter to UP Chief Minster Akhilesh Yadav sent on Thursday, which was released to the media here on Friday, said that the funds to the tune of Rs 666 crores for upliftment of 1108 kilometers of 135 rural roads in 30 districts has been sanctioned on February 18 last. The central sanction were made on the proposals sent by the state government.
Ramesh in his letter said that in the first batch of the scheme, the centre had already gave UP, Rs 1135 crores for upliftment of 1913 kilometers of 252 roads way back on January , 2014. " So during 2013-14 centre has sanctioned a total amount of Rs 1800 crores for 366 rural roads covering 3021 kms in UP", he said. He said under the PMGSY-11 scheme in the 12th plan period 7575 kms of rural road would be developed in UP. It may be mentioned that Rahul, during visit to his Parliament constituency on last Wednesday said that Akhilesh Yadav’s government is doing step-motherly treatment with Amethi. He accused state government of misutilising central fund send for repair and construction of roads.