The Government of India created the RIDF (Rural Infrastructure Development Fund) in NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) in 1995-96, with an initial corpus of Rs. 2,000 crore. The Government of Assam has taken the initiative for development of road infrastructure in rural areas with the financial assistance from NABARD under RIDF. Implementation of RIDF projects for rural road and bridge construction by PWD in the State started from 1997-98. The total length of roads and number of bridges sanctioned and implemented till 2016-17 are 1890 km and 565 numbers respectively, amounting to Rs. 2357 crore.
The main objective of NABARD funded RIDF is to promote balanced and integrated economic development of rural areas of Assam by constructing roads and bridges in a phased manner.
Sl. No. |
Trench | Amount Sanctioned (Rs. in crore) |
Up to Date release from NABARD (Rs. in crore) |
Total Nos. of Projects (Nos.) | Nos. of Projects Completed (Nos.) | Total Nos. of Projects yet to be completed (Nos.) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Roads | Bridges | Roads | Bridges | Roads | Bridges | ||||
1. | RIDF - XVI | 107.2 | 101.84 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
2. | RIDF - XVII | 162.7 | 154.565 | 6 | 102 | 6 | 102 | 0 | 0 |
3. | RIDF - XIX - Batch-I | 162.1 | 154.887 | 15 | 44 | 15 | 44 | 0 | 0 |
4. | RIDF - XIX - Batch-II | 55.7 | 53.472 | 27 | 7 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
5. | RIDF - XX | 281.4 | 269.22347 | 183 | 8 | 183 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
6. | RIDF - XXI | 231.3 | 217.1679 | 138 | 6 | 138 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
7. | RIDF - XXII | 346.6181 | 285.87507 | 112 | 8 | 110 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
8. | RIDF - XXIII | 380.2086 | 336.4066 | 107 | 84 | 97 | 78 | 10 | 6 |
9. | RIDF - XXIV | 1032.384 | 834.257 | 0 | 285 | 0 | 153 | 0 | 132 |
10. | RIDF - XXV | 688.069 | 495.73488 | 0 | 163 | 0 | 58 | 0 | 105 |
11. | RIDF-XXVI | 831.20468 | 618.33211 | 86 | 3 | 29 | 0 | 57 | 3 |
12. | RIDF-XXVII | 1796.033 | 214.9833 | 173 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 173 | 39 |
Total: | 6047.91 | 3736.74425 | 851 | 761 | 609 | 476 | 242 | 279 |