'Mukhya Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana' in Madhya Pradesh was implemented from which year?
- (a)2008-09
- (b)2009-10
- (c)2010-11
- (d)2011-12
Correct — C, 2010-11. Madhya Pradesh implemented its Mukhya Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (the Chief Minister's Rural Road Scheme) from 2010-11. It was created to give all-weather road connectivity to villages left out of the central Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) — typically general-category villages below 500 population and tribal-area villages below 250 population.
- (a)2008-09 — Too early — MP's MMGSY was rolled out in 2010-11, not 2008-09.
- (b)2009-10 — One year short — the scheme's implementation year is 2010-11.
- (d)2011-12 — One year late — MMGSY had already been launched in 2010-11.
Rural road connectivity in India runs on two tracks — the central Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY, launched 2000) and state schemes for the habitations PMGSY does not cover. Madhya Pradesh's Mukhya Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (from 2010-11) fills that gap, building all-weather roads to smaller and uncovered villages: general-category villages below 500 population and tribal-area villages below 250.
The date sits well after PMGSY (2000). Anchor MMGSY to 2010-11 and recall it as the state top-up to PMGSY — a scheme for the villages the central programme's population cut-offs leave out.
- MMGSY (Madhya Pradesh) was implemented from 2010-11.
- It targets villages left out of PMGSY — general villages below 500 population and tribal-area villages below 250.
- PMGSY, the central rural-roads scheme it supplements, was launched in 2000.
- Aim: all-weather road connectivity to unconnected and smaller habitations.
- Confusing MMGSY (state, 2010-11) with PMGSY (central, 2000)
- Mixing up the population thresholds (below 500 general / below 250 tribal)
MPPSC asks the launch year and criteria of MP schemes; UPSC asks about PMGSY, rural road connectivity and construction materials.
Consider the following schemes launched by the Union Government: I. Antyodaya Anna II. Gram Sadak Yojana III. Sarvapriya IV. Jawahar Gram Samriddhi Yojana. Which of these were announced in the year 2000?
- (a) I and II
- (b) II and IV
- (c) III and IV
- (d) I, II and III
Answer(a) I and II
Same scheme family — UPSC tested the (Pradhan Mantri) Gram Sadak Yojana as a 2000 rural-roads scheme; MP's MMGSY is the state complement to that PMGSY connectivity effort.
- practice — not a real PYQ
The central scheme for all-weather rural road connectivity, which MP's MMGSY supplements, is:
- (a)Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
- (b)MGNREGA
- (c)Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Gramin
- (d)Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
Answer(a) Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY).
- practice — not a real PYQ
Madhya Pradesh's Mukhya Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana mainly builds roads to:
- (a)metro cities
- (b)villages left uncovered by PMGSY (smaller and tribal habitations)
- (c)national highways
- (d)industrial corridors
Answer(b) villages left uncovered by PMGSY.