Question

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana was started in?

• A. 2006
• B. 2005
• C. 2000
• D. 2001

Answer 1

Answer:

C. 2000

Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

• Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana began in 2000.

• Its purpose is to provide all-weather roads to rural areas.

• Basic amenities like schools and hospitals have roads to connect them.

• The government wants to cover all rural areas by 2019. Around 60 thousand villages remain left to be covered.

• Government allocates a large amount of money every year for this programme.

• Under the scheme, roads are built or improved.

• Existing roads which are narrow and kutcha, are made bigger and broad with the pucca surfaces.