Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana — Programme Guidelines

should be 1.5 km (of path length) in respect of Hills.
3.9 The PMGSY shall cover only the rural areas. Urban roads are excluded
from the purview of this Programme. Even in the rural areas, PMGSY covers only
the Rural Roads i.e., Roads that were formerly classified as ‘Other District Roads’
(ODR) and ‘Village Roads’ (VR). Other District Roads (ODR) are roads serving
rural areas of production and providing them with outlet to market centres, taluka
(tehsil) headquarters, Block headquarters or other main roads. Village Roads (VR)
are roads connecting villages / Habitation or groups of Habitations with each other
and to the nearest road of a higher category. Major District Roads, State Highways
and National Highways cannot be covered under the PMGSY, even if they happen
to be in rural areas. This applies to New Connectivity roads as well as Upgradation
works.
3.10 The PMGSY envisages only single road Connectivity to be provided. If a
Habitation is already connected by way of an All-weather road, then no new work
4 can be taken up under the PMGSY for that habitation.
3.11 Provision of connectivity to eligible unconnected Habitations would be
termed as New Connectivity. Since the purpose of PMGSY, inter alia, is to provide farm
to market access, new connectivity may involve ‘new construction’ where the link to the
habitation is missing and additionally, if required, ‘upgradation’ where an intermediate
link in its present condition cannot function as an all-weather road (see Para 3.12
below).
3.12 Upgradation, when permitted (refer Para 2.2 and 3.11 above) would
typically involve building the base and surface courses of an existing road to
desired technical specifications and / or improving the geometrics of the road, as
required in accordance with traffic condition (see also Para 3.14 below).
3.13 The primary focus of the PMGSY is to provide All-weather road connectivity
to the eligible unconnected Habitations. An All-weather road is one which is
negotiable in all seasons of the year. This implies that the road-bed is drained
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