Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana — Programme Guidelines

cluster approach would enable provision of connectivity to a larger number of
Habitations, particularly in the Hill/ mountainous areas.
(@Substituted vide MoRD letter No. P-17023/38/2005-RC dated 29th February, 2008)
3.5 The eligible Unconnected Habitations are to be connected to nearby
Habitations already connected by an All-weather road or to another existing All-
weather road so that services (educational, health, marketing facilities etc.), which
are not available in the unconnected Habitation, become available to the residents.
3.6 A Core Network is that minimal Network of roads (routes) that is essential
to provide Basic access to essential social and economic services to all eligible
unconnected habitations in the selected areas through at least a single all-weather
road connectivity.
3.7 A Core Network comprises of Through Routes and Link Routes. Through
Routes are the ones which collect traffic from several link roads or a long chain of 3
Habitations and lead it to Marketing centres either directly or through the higher
category roads i.e., the District Roads or the State or National Highways. Link
Routes are the roads connecting a single Habitation or a group of Habitations to
Through Routes or District Roads leading to Market Centres. Link Routes generally
have dead ends terminating on a Habitation, while Through Routes arise from the
confluence of two or more Link Routes and emerge on to a major Road or to a
Market Centre.
3.8 It should be ensured that each road work that is taken up under the PMGSY
is part of the Core Network. While keeping the objective of Connectivity in view,
preference should be given to those roads which also incidentally serve other
Habitations. In other words, without compromising the basic objective (covering
1000+ Habitations first and 500+ Habitations next and 250+ Habitations where
eligible, last), preference should be given to those roads which serve a larger
population. For this purpose, while Habitations within a distance of 500 metres
from the road is considered as connected in case of plain areas, this distance
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