CENTRE CLEARS NEARLY RS 1000 CRORES RURAL ROAD PROJECT FOR GUJARAT
At a time when Narendra Modi and Congress are engaged in a war of words, the Centre has cleared a rural road project worth nearly Rs 1,000 crores for Gujarat. Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has conveyed to the Gujarat chief minister in a letter that his ministry is sanctioning Rs 970 crores to the state for building 919 rural roads. Gujarat will have to spend about Rs 22 crores. The project has been sanctioned under the Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). It was sanctioned after an empowered committee at the Rural Development Ministry went through the proposals sent by the Gujarat government. The committee has insisted that the state government should ensure that citizen information boards are displayed in local language and the board should be placed in a prominent location in the benefitted habitation, for each road works being executed under the programme.
At a time when Narendra Modi and Congress are engaged in a war of words, the Centre has cleared a rural road project worth nearly Rs 1,000 crores for Gujarat. Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has conveyed to the Gujarat chief minister in a letter that his ministry is sanctioning Rs 970 crores to the state for building 919 rural roads. Gujarat will have to spend about Rs 22 crores. The project has been sanctioned under the Pradhan Mantri Grameen Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). It was sanctioned after an empowered committee at the Rural Development Ministry went through the proposals sent by the Gujarat government. The committee has insisted that the state government should ensure that citizen information boards are displayed in local language and the board should be placed in a prominent location in the benefitted habitation, for each road works being executed under the programme.
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