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All villages with population of 100 or more people to be connected with pucca roads: Minister

Aurangabad, Dec 17 (UNI) Bihar Rural Development and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shravan Kumar today said that all tolas, habitations and villages with population of 100 or more people would be connected with pucca (metalled) roads in the state by 2020.
Inaugurating the foundation day celebration of a local Hindi daily here, Mr Kumar said that the survey work of all habitations, tolas and villages with population of 100 or more people but deprived of pucca roads was almost complete. He said, all of them would be connected with pucca roads by December, 2020.
The minister said, the state government had formulated a new policy for the maintenance of rural roads and contractors had been engaged for maintaining all rural roads in good shape for the next five years. All roads had been now put in one category and so its repair and maintenance work would be executed uniformly, he added.
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