Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana Completes 25 Years of Rural Road DevelopmentOn 25 December 2025, th...

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Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana Completes 25 Years of Rural Road DevelopmentOn 25 December 2025, the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), launched on 25 December 2000 as one of India’s most transformative rural infrastructure programmes, celebrated its 25th anniversary.

  • PMGSY has approved over 8,25,114 kilometre (km) of rural roads and completed around 787,520 km, achieving nearly 95% of the planned physical progress as of December 2025.

About Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana(PMGSY) :
Objective: The objective of PMGSY is to provide all-weather road connectivity to unconnected habitations in rural areas by way of a single all-weather road, to the eligible unconnected habitations of designated population size in the core network.
Nodal Agency: The programme is implemented by the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) through the Rural Roads Wing, in coordination with State Governments and Union Territories.
Funding Pattern: This is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS). The funding pattern of PMGSY is in the ratio of 60:40 in respect of all the States except Special Category States (8 North Eastern (NE) States: Jammu & Kashmir(J&K), Himachal Pradesh (HP), Uttarakhand and Union Territories (UTs) with Legislatures, for which the sharing pattern would be 90:10 and for UTs without legislatures, the centre will provide 100% funding.
Financial Allocation: For the Financial Year 2025-26 (FY26), an allocation of Rs 19,000 crore (Cr) has been made for the programme.
Phase-IV: Launched in 2024, Phase IV of the PMGSY aims to provide all-weather road connectivity to 25,000 unconnected rural habitations based on Census 2011 population criteria.

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  • Under this phase, a total of 62,500 km of roads is planned to be constructed during Financial Year 2024-25(FY25) to FY29, with an overall financial outlay of Rs. 70,125 crore.

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