When a coconut breaking ceremony for a newly constructed road broke the road instead, it seemed like a good idea to explore the one thing everyone seems to take for granted, access to roads, and good quality ones at that.
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Money Control
Only Coconut Should Break, Not Road During Inauguration; Gulam Jeelani; Dec 7, 2021
Dainik Bhaskar
भ्रष्टाचार की भेंट चढ़ी दो करोड़ की सड़क, निर्माण के 2 माह बाद ही बही; 2016
The Print
MLAs got Rs 3500 crore spent on bad rural roads, built by contractors of their caste; Charu Bahri; Feb 24, 2018
In Manipur’s worst-connected district, these villagers have given up their rights to get a road; Simran Sirur; Aug 27, 2021
Piyush Goyal hails India’s newly-connected villages, but 26% still await pucca roads; Ruhi Tewari; Feb 4, 2019
Govt hasn’t done enough on road dust, landfill fires to cut NCR air pollution: Parliament panel; Simrin Sirur; Dec 2, 2021
The Economic Times
India, World Bank sign $500 million loan pact for rural roads; May 31, 2018
My target is to achieve 100 km per day of highway construction: Nitin Gadkari; Aug 11, 2021
Supreme Court takes note of 3,597 deaths due to pothole-related accidents in 2017; Sep 18, 2018
15,052.57 km of road built by NDA govt in Bihar; Nov 27, 2012
The Hindu
CAG uncovers roads to nowhere; Aug 13, 2016
The Pioneer
Parl panel calls for national database of corrupt PMGSY contractors; Archana Jyoti; Aug 23, 2017
The New India Express
'I will make it happen… I don’t lie': Gadkari says UP will see roads worth Rs 5 lakh crore; Namita Bajpai; Dec 20, 2021
Rural roads in bad shape in Jagatsinghpur, poor implementation of government scheme alleged; Nov 21, 2019
Four years on, 30 per cent villages yet to get roads in country; Pushkar Banakar; July 15, 2018
The Times of India
At inauguration in Uttar Pradesh, road breaks but coconut doesn’t; Harveer Dabas; Dec 4, 2021
Rural roads are no less important than national highways; Sanjiv Shankaran; Aug 7, 2016
A village that may vote after 10 years.. all for an unpaved promise; Amarjeet Singh; Oct 14, 2018
News18 Hindi
कवर्धा में कागजों पर ही बन गई 13 लाख रुपये की सड़क, बड़े भ्रष्टाचार की आशंका; Manish Mishra; Jan 14, 2020
The Arunachal Times
Villagers allege poor quality work in construction of PMGSY road; Prafulla Kaman; July 28, 2020
Scroll
With better roads, India can achieve a China-like economic transformation; Uma S Kambhampati, Subham Kailthya; Nov 10, 2021
Business Today
Cabinet approves construction of over 32,000 km roads under PMGSY; Nov 17, 2021
Mint
Centre builds 3,385.02 km of national highways this fiscal; Sep 4, 2021
India’s villages: for want of a road; Aug 7, 2017
Govt looks for major infra push with 30% budget hike for highways; Subhash Narayan; Jan 3, 2022
The Wire
No Road, No Vote'; Mahtab Alam; Apr 21, 2019
India in motion
THE VILLAGE IN SEARCH OF A ROAD; Apr 13, 2020
The Better India
Fed up with Govt Promises for 20 Years, These Villagers Built Their Own Road in Just 4 Months!; Manabi Katoch; June, 2016
India Today
The Modi government: Betting big on infra; Shwweta Punj; Nov 8, 2021
BMC says over 30,000 potholes in Mumbai fixed within 5 months this year; Pankaj Upadhyay; Sep 10, 2021
Dashrath Manjhi: Some lesser known facts on the Mountain Man who worked for 22 years and carved a path through a mountain; July 15, 2015
PMGSY government website
National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency case studies
Hindustan Times
PMGSY triggered structural transformation in rural India: World Bank draft report; Oct 8, 2018
150% rise in potholes in Mumbai in 10 years; Mehul R Thakkar; July 16, 2019
BMC road scam: How contractors, officials beat the system; Oct 16, Charul Shah; 2016
Blacklisted contractors paid kickbacks to be eligible for bidding: Mumbai BJP MLA; Mehul R Thakkar; Oct 30, 2021
Nitish Kumar's development agenda makes waves in Bihar; May 01, 2009
The Indian Express
World Bank study on PMGSY: ‘Rural roads scheme triggered shift from farm to non-farm employment’; July 22, 2019
Mumbai: BMC portal says only 927 potholes in city, residents say numbers under-reported; Sep 26, 2021
The Times of India
Potholes killed 3,597 across India in 2017, terror 803; Dipak K Dash; Jul 15, 2018
Road dust makes up 2/3rds of particles in Mumbai’s air; Vinamrata Borwankar; Mar 3, 2021
Mumbai Mirror
City roads out secrets of corrupt road contractors; Chaitanya Marpakwar; Feb 26, 2016
DNA
BMC cancels four multi-crore projects awarded to blacklisted contractors; Kunal Chonkar; Aug 11, 2016
Chaigossips.com
List of Roads Made From Waste Plastic; Naushin Ahmed; August 3, 2018
Nikki Asia
China to expand highway network nearly 50% by 2035; Shin Watanabe; March 16, 2021
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