18.5.12

Rs.8,500 crore road plan for Naxal areas cleared

The Union Cabinet has approved a Rs 8,500 crore package for roads in 78 Naxal-affected districts, giving a boost to connectivity in habitations languishing outside the rural roads coverage. The Cabinet decision will give road connectivity to 6,000 habitations, which are not part of the ‘core network’, an essential criteria for qualification under the Pradhan Mantri Gamin Sadak Yojana. 
The move to boost road connectivity is aimed at defusing a principal reason for tribals and backwards 
to fall for the Naxal campaign revolving around government neglect and under-development. The major gainers under the roads package will be Orissa, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Bihar. Of the 78 districts, 20 are said to be major laggards.

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