Centre, states to jointly spend Rs 100,000 cr on rural roads till Mar 2020

Programme includes building new roads, upgradation and maintenance of existing roads and connecting Left-Wing Extremism affected districts

The Centre, along with states, plans to spend around Rs 100,000 crore on the flagship rural roads programme, the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) over the next three years starting from the 2017-18 financial year. This includes expenditure on building new roads, upgradation and maintenance of existing roads and building roads in hitherto unconnected Left-Wing Extremism affected districts of the country.

Officials in the know said that of this expenditure, about Rs 90,000 crore would be on the core programme (PMGSY 1 and 2), while another Rs 11,000 crore would be on a programme to connect LWE districts which also