- The construction pace of roads built under the flagship scheme of PMGSY has increased to 139 km per day
- "From 2011 to 2014, the roads in rural areas under the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) were constructed at 70-75 kilometer per day.
- 2014-16, it increased to 100 km per day.
- Today the roads are being constructed at 139 km per day
- He said while the construction speed was 139 km in the first five months, 133 km will be constructed per day under the PMGSY in 2016-17.
- Rural roads is a state subject and PMGSY is a one-time special intervention of the government to provide rural connectivity by way of single all-weather road connectivity to eligible, unconnected habitations in the core network.
- The habitations having a population of 100 and above and identified by Home Ministry as crucial, are also covered under the scheme.
- The government has also launched the second phase of PMGSY-II which envisages consolidation of the existing rural road network to improve its overall efficiency.
Chandrakant Raghunath Patil, MP from Navsari, adopted Chikhli. Chikhli seen improvement in Sanitation and road renovation under SAGY. The infrastructure is improved.It is emerging as the template of village development. Patil completed the task in just three months. 380 toilets were built in Chikhli, many of them in the two slums life has become better after construction of toilet in their houses regular affair during the monsoons. A huge Shiva statue built six years ago by an NRI on the river bank had lost its colour and texture. The MP built a protection wall all along the riverbank and renovated a temple and the Shiva idol. renovation of road circles in a public-private partnership putting waste collection bins around the village, procurement of a diagnosis machine for the Rotary Eye Hospital (in the nearby Navsari), a library in the village panchayat office, gas-based cremation at the village crematorium, a modern aganwadi centre and a bus stop.
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