Last Updated: 20 March 2024
Saving of ₹163.26 crore for every 6 years merely in estimates of roads through AI
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
- 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
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