{"id":366536,"date":"2020-08-06T16:07:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T10:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=366536"},"modified":"2020-08-06T16:07:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T10:37:07","slug":"meghalaya-completes-over-1300-km-roads-under-pmgsy-despite-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/meghalaya-completes-over-1300-km-roads-under-pmgsy-despite-covid-19-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghalaya completes over 1,300 km roads under PMGSY despite COVID-19 crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Meghalaya government has completed over 1,300 km of rural roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), despite the COVID-19 crisis in the state, according to a statement. A total of 528 road projects under the programme are in progress, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma had on Wednesday reviewed the implementation of the scheme in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of 971 sanctioned schemes covering a total length of 4,303.70 km, 414 projects with a total length of 1,353.12 km have been completed, while 528 schemes covering 2,849.98 km of roads are in progress,&#8221; the statement issued by the Chief Minister&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, the Public Works Department officials said the road construction work has been delayed in April and May due to the lockdown, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The PMGSY was launched by the Centre to provide connectivity in rural areas as part of a poverty alleviation strategy.<\/p>\n<p>The chief minister has instructed the department to complete the projects in the stipulated time frame and asked the deputy commissioners of districts to monitor the implementation of the schemes.<\/p>\n<p>They were asked to submit the progress report to the government every week, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meghalaya government has completed over 1,300 km of rural roads under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY), despite the COVID-19 crisis in the state, according to a statement. A total of 528 road projects under the programme are in progress, it said. Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma had on Wednesday reviewed the implementation of the scheme in the state. &#8220;Out of 971 sanctioned schemes covering a total length of 4,303.70 km, 414 projects with a total length of 1,353.12 km have been completed, while 528 schemes covering 2,849.98 km of roads are in progress,&#8221; the statement issued by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roads"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}