Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana — Programme Guidelines

Empowered Committee will review the institutional preparedness of the State
executional machinery, particularly with respect to technical and quality issues,
and the contracting capacity available and the State’s ability to maintain the
already created assets. The recommendations of the Empowered Committee
would, thereafter, be submitted to the Minister of Rural Development and in case
the proposals meet the programme requirements, they will be cleared.
10.2 The Ministry will communicate the clearance of the Proposals to the State
Government. It may, however, be noted that clearance by the Ministry does not
imply Administrative or Technical sanction of the proposals. The procedures of the
State Government / SRRDA in this regard would be followed. The Authorised Officer
of the Executing Agency would have to record the Technical Sanction on each DPR
before action is taken to tender the works.
10.3 Once approved, the alignment of the road should not be changed without
obtaining the concurrence of the District Panchayat, the STA and the SLSC.
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11. TENDERING OF WORKS
11.1 After the project proposals have been cleared and Technical Sanction has
been accorded, the Executing Agency would invite tenders. The well-established
procedure for tendering, through competitive bidding, would be followed for all
projects. All the projects scrutinised by the STA and cleared by the Ministry, will be
tendered as such, and no changes shall be made in the work without the prior
approval of the NRRDA. The States will follow the Standard Bidding Document
(SBD), prescribed by the NRRDA, for all the tenders.
11.2 Since PMGSY places high emphasis on time and quality, States shall take
steps to increase competition and to realistically assess Bid capacity. To this end
States shall ensure that all Tender notices are put out on the Internet under the
OMMAS. Centralised evaluation of Bid capacity will be done to give effect to the
provision of the SBD. States may empower the SRRDA to call and decide tenders in
the interest of speeding up the process.
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