This report card highlights impressive results, PM Modi overwhelmed with impressive progress in road, railway, aviation and housing sectors

NewsBharati    03-Aug-2018
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New Delhi, August 3: India has progressed and how! Leveling up their efforts, the Modi government has shown progress in each and every sector fulfilling the dream of New India. Pitching on to escalate the initiatives and take an account of progress in the infrastructural sector, the government presents a detailed report before the Prime Minister.

 

Reviewing the progress on key infrastructure sectors, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed the efforts taken by his team on bringing out development along with NITI Aayog. The review covered a wide arena comprising the roads, PMGSY, rural housing, urban housing, railways, airports, and ports.

A significant rise in the pace of Road Construction

Presenting the developments made by the government initiatives, NITI Aayog Chairman Amitabh Kant noted that the pace of road construction has picked up vividly. The average road length constructed per day in FY 17-18 was 26.93 km, as compared to 11.67 km in FY 13-14. Under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, rural roads have now connected 88% of all eligible habitations. Over 44,000 villages have been connected in the period from 2014 to 2018, as compared to about 35,000 in the preceding four year period.

Initiating the "Sukhad Yatra" App, which provides information about road conditions, and facilitates lodging of complaints, has seen over 1 lakh downloads so far. The Prime Minister called for faster progress in electronic toll collection. Over 24 lakh RFID tags have been issued so far, and over 22% of toll revenue now comes from electronic toll collection.

 

Apart from this the "Meri Sadak" App has been launched in 10 regional languages and has seen 9.76 lakh downloads so far. The progress showed that the GIS Mapping of roads is underway, and 20 States have so far been hosted on the Geospatial Rural Road Information System (GRRIS).

Taking a significant look at the renewable and green energy, Green technologies, and non-conventional materials such as waste plastic and fly ash, are being used in rural road construction.

Railways on right track

There has been a significant addition in capacity and rolling stock in the railway's sector. Adding up to the development list, the railways have shown the addition of "new lines, doubling and gauge conversion" between the year 2014 and 2018. The railway extension leads to 56% higher with 9528 kilometers more compared to the last four year period.

 

Taking Off on a high note

Taking a detailed note of the aviation sector, passenger traffic has grown by over 62% in the four year period between 2014 and 2018 compared to 18% in the preceding four year period. Under the UDAN scheme, 27 airports are now operational in tier 2 and tier 3 cities. 

Aiming bull’s eye on trade and commerce

In the ports sector, traffic volume in major ports increased by 17% in the period between 2014 and 2018.

Housing for all

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was informed that over 1 crore houses have been constructed from 2014 to 2018 in the rural housing sector. As compared to the preceding four year period which had only 25 lakh houses.

 

In urban housing, emphasis is being laid on new construction technologies. 54 lakh houses have been sanctioned under Pradhan MantriAwaasYojana (Urban), since the inception of the scheme.

Pradhan MantriAwaasYojana has boosted employment in the housing sector and related construction industries. According to an independent study, the average construction completion time has dropped sharply, from 314 days in 2015-16, to 114 days in 2017-18. Stress is also being given to disaster resilience and low cost housing design typologies.