The Panchayat and Rural Development department of the State Government has so far been constructed 4,582 roads costing Rs 5,410 crore in Chhattisgarh, since the launching of the Prime Minister Rural Road Scheme. The total length of these roads is 20,983 km.
With the construction of these roads, 6,944 settlements of the State got round-the-year transport facility. The scheme was launched by the Central Government on December 25, 2000, on the birthday of the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
From the launching of the scheme to the current financial year 2013-14, up to November 2013, Chhattisgarh has received sanction for 6,371 roads of 28,452-km-long, costing Rs 7,895 crore. Out of which construction of 4,582 roads has been completed.
Under the scheme, provision has been made to construct round-the-year roads in the villages having 500 population in the general sector and 2500 population in the tribal sector. As per the new guidelines of the scheme, the roads on which less than 100 vehicles ply, three metre wide asphaltation should be done and the roads on which more than 100 vehicles ply, the width of asphaltation should be 3.75 metre.
For the quality check of the roads constructed by the State government, first, second and third-level monitoring system has been implemented. For the first level inspection, one central laboratory, three district-level laboratories, in the project implementation unit-level 34 laboratories, for 2nd level 46 state quality observer and for third-level ARRDA would send national quality observer.