Context:
Gram Sadak Yojana will connect 25,000 new rural areas with all-weather roads: Union Budget 2024
PM Gram Sadak Yojana:
- Launched on – 25th December, 2000.
- Objective – To provide connectivity, by way of an all-weather road to unconnected habitations.
- Ministry – Ministry of Rural Development
- Eligibility – Population size >500 in plain areas and >250 in hills and other difficult areas.
- Funding Pattern – Started as a 100 % centrally sponsored scheme
- However, was revised to a 60:40 ratio between Centre and State in 2015-16, and a 90:10 ratio for Northeastern States and Himalayan States.
- 4 verticals of the scheme – PMGSY I, PMGSY II, Road Connectivity Project for Left Wing Extremism Areas (RCPLWEA), and PMGSY III.
- Construction of Rural Roads under the PMGSY – Held in accordance with the provision of the Indian Roads Congress (IRC).
- IRC – Apex Body of Highway Engineers in the country set up in 1934.
Source: The Indian Express
Previous Year Question
What is/are the advantage/ advantages of implementing the ‘National Agriculture Market’ scheme?
1. It is a pan-India electronic trading portal for agricultural commodities.
2. It provides the farmer’s access to the nationwide market, with prices commensurate with the quality of their produce.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
[UPSC Civil Services Exam – 2017 Prelims]
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Answer: (c)
