Considerations and facets:

·         Better road facilities curb Naxalite activities by serving as corridors for improved law and order surveillance.

·         Roads shall serve as both Forward and backward linkages with other interventions under the RSVY (irrigation, agriculture etc)

·         Only hitherto perpetually neglected roads that do not qualify under the PMGSY have been selected.

Perhaps the smallest district of newly constructed Jharkhand state, Lohardaga has been always a neglected and under developed region of south Chhotanagpur division. Mostly uneven and forest covered villages of this district and situated in remote areas, could no more develop due to lack and infrastructure development, especially communication. Continuously increasing naxalite activities and decreasing economy and this district are the results of lack of communication. Several developmental schemes of the state and central govts. have failed due to communication gap between rural and urban areas. The forest and agricultural produces get rotten in the villages, only because the rural people are unable introduce their produces to the market. Almost hilly racks of this district are usually open throughout the year but they are for wading only. As such, adequate communication is only possible through motor able roads to remote hamlets of this district. Ample opportunities of tourism development, too, can be provided to the beautiful but neglected tourist points of this district by better communication round the year only.

            Consisting of 5 blocks 67 panchayats and 354 revenue villages, Lohardaga district is thickly populated by mixed population with major number of tribals and primitives tiribes in the platinum region. The numbers of village above 1000 are 87,  between 500 to 1000 are 108 and the rest others are consisting below 500 population. The PMGSY scheme of the central govt. is for those village only with a population of more than 500 but below 500 populations there is no provision under this scheme. As such the present scheme under RSVY, those village/tolas of Lohardaga district below a population of 500 can be facilities with better vehicle communications. The proposal for road communication under this scheme have been widely discussed with the NGO’s active in this district like PRADAN.

            A major population of this district lives in the remote area. To developed road network in these areas it is very useful to construct all weather roads under this schemes. proposal for construction of only such roads and bridges are made under this schemes, which can not be taken any other on going major yojana’s like PMGSY & other sate sponsored schemes. Total no. of roads & bridges proposed to constructed in this district is (118) One hundred & Eighteen Only.