Centre grants Rs 200 crore to UP for PMGSY

New Delhi, May 28 (UNI) The Centre has allocated Rs 200 crore to Uttar Pradesh for the projects under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojna.

The Ministry of Rural Development released the amount as part payment of second instalment of Phase-IV for the projects under PMGSY to the Uttar Pradesh Gramin Sadak Vikas Abhikaran, which is the autonomous agency for receiving funds under the programme in the State.

PMGSY was launched in December 2000 as a 100 per cent Centrally sponsored scheme with a target of connecting every habitation that has a population of more than 1000 within the next three years and every habitation with a population of more than 500 by the year 2007, that is by the end of the 10th Five Year Plan through good all-weather roads.

A sum of Rs 20,400.70 crore has been released to the States and UTs towards the programme and up to December 2006, 35,868 roadworks covering a length of 1,07,569.08 Kms have been completed.

The Ministry has also sanctioned Rs 4.54 crore of grants-in-aid to 70 District Rural Development Agencies of the state towards part payment of first instalment of Central share for the year 2007-08.

Meanwhile, Tripura has been sanctioned Rs 19.47 crore towards part payment of 1st instalment of Central share for the year 2007-2008 under DRDA Administration.

Asom has been given Rs 63.51 crore as third or additional instalment of Central assistance for 16 districts as central assistance for the implementation of the Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojana (SGRY) during the financial year 2006-07.

During the current financial year Rs 14.70 crore as second instalment has been granted by the Ministry to three districts of Asom - Karimganj, Golaghat and Cacher as central assistance under the scheme.

UNI