The Union Ministry of Rural Development has directed states to add QR codes to maintenance display boards on all PMGSY roads to enhance transparency and ease of tracking maintenance details.<\/span><\/p>\n The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) is a rural road development programme launched on December 25, 2000, under the then government led by <\/span>Atal Bihari Vajpayee<\/b> to improve rural connectivity through all-weather roads.<\/span><\/p>\n Initially a <\/span>Centrally Sponsored Scheme<\/b>, the cost-sharing was revised in <\/span>2015\u201316<\/b> to <\/span>60:40<\/b> between Centre and states (except <\/span>NE and Himalayan states<\/b>, which follow a different ratio).<\/span><\/p>\n Since the scheme was launched, a total road length of 8,36,850 km has been sanctioned, of which 7,81,209 km has been completed.<\/span><\/p>\n The National Rural Infrastructure Development Agency (NRIDA), under the MoRD, has directed all states to install QR codes on PMGSY road maintenance boards.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/b>The primary objective is to <\/span>gather public feedback on the quality and upkeep<\/span> of rural roads, which was previously missing in the monitoring process.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/b>e-MARG (electronic Maintenance of Rural Roads) is a mobile-cum-web-based e-governance system for tracking maintenance.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n After construction, roads are maintained by the contractor for five years.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Contractors submit bills on e-MARG for maintenance work.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/b>While technical checks exist, no mechanism was in place to capture citizen feedback\u2014a gap that the QR code initiative now aims to fill.<\/span><\/p>\n Source:<\/b> IE<\/a> |\u00a0<\/span>PIB<\/a>\u00a0| <\/span>PMGSY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Centre mandates QR codes on PMGSY road boards to enhance transparency, enable public feedback, and strengthen monitoring via the eMARG system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":51189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[60,950,22,59],"class_list":{"0":"post-51136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"tag-mains-articles","9":"tag-pmgsy-qr-code-tracking","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-mains-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About Prime Minister Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY)<\/b><\/h2>\n
Phases of PMGSY<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Funding Pattern<\/b><\/h3>\n
Achievements So Far (as per the information available on the dashboard)<\/b><\/h3>\n
QR Codes on PMGSY Road Maintenance Boards<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Purpose of QR Codes<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Current Maintenance System: e-MARG<\/b><\/b><\/h3>\n
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Monitoring and Evaluation Process<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Role of National Level Monitors (NLMs)<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Need for Public Feedback<\/b><\/h3>\n
Working of New QR Code System<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Integration with Inspection and Evaluation<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Enhancing Transparency and Accountability<\/b><\/h3>\n
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