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9. Zilla Parishad Roads
9.1 About 5,08,608 km of Zilla Parishad Roads were reported as on 31 st March 2008
with around 55 % (2,78,962 km) of these roads having been surfaced. The road
length under Zilla Parishads increased from 4,69,944 km in 2005 to 5,08,608 km (an
increase of 8.2 %). Over the same period, surfaced roads under the Zilla Parishads
increased by about 5.9 % from 2,63,311 km to 2,78,962 km. Amongst the States,
Karnataka had reported the highest road length under the jurisdiction of Zilla
Parishads at 1,44,725 km followed by Maharashtra with 1,02,149 km of Zilla Parishad
roads(Table 5.1).
10. Village Panchayat Roads
10.1 The road length under this category were 6,70,107 km as on 31 st March 2008;
during the period 2005- 2008 the road length increased by about 7.8 %. The
surfaced road length under village panchayats increased by over 13 % from 1,19,580
km km in 2005 to 1,35,331 km by the end of 2008. However, only about 20 % of the
total road length under village panchayats was surfaced by the end of 2008. States
with large networks of village panchayat roads include – Kerala (1,53,797 km), Orissa
(1,39,942 km) and West Bengal (1,10,692 km) (Table 6.1).
11. Panchayat Samiti Roads
11.1 Roads under Panchayat Samiti were reported at 210035 km as on 31 st March
2008. More than 24% of this road length was surfaced. Though Assam reported the
largest share of Panchayat Samiti roads (64,494 km) only 6.5% was surfaced.
Rajasthan had the second largest share with a length of 44,287 km, of which only 18
% was surfaced. Tamil Nadu, on the other hand, had 32,053 km of total road length,
of which 82 % was surfaced (Table 7.1).
12. Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)
12.1 The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) was launched in December,
2000 with the objective of providing connectivity, through all-weather roads to
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