Saved ₹160 crore over repairs of non-existent 540-km roads

Last Updated: 20 March 2024

Saving of ₹163.26 crore for every 6 years merely in estimates of roads through AI[1]

Road construction/maintenance cycle is of 6 years

Punjab government found that 540 km of roads did not even exist but were being paid for construction & regular maintence costs[1:1]

Details[1:2]

  • It was revealed after mapping of state roads using a technology based on artificial intelligence (AI) and geographical information system (GIS)
  • Nearly 540 km of roads in punjab existed only on papers in punjab, and various concerned departments were paying fee for their recarpeting, repair and other works
  • Punjab Mandi Board had conducted the exercise through GIS on its village link road network of 64,878 km to measure its roads in villages
  • During the updating of the data of village link roads in the state on the GIS, it was found that the actual length of the network was 64,340 km

REFERENCES:

  1. https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/over-540-km-roads-only-on-paper-revised-estimates-saved-state-rs160-crore-cm-mann-101701199474333.html ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎