{"id":274709,"date":"2025-12-04T00:46:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=274709"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:46:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:16:54","slug":"rebia-urges-goi-to-relax-criteria-for-pmgsy-iv-road-projects-in-arunachal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/rebia-urges-goi-to-relax-criteria-for-pmgsy-iv-road-projects-in-arunachal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebia urges GoI to relax criteria for PMGSY-IV road projects in Arunachal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 3 Dec:<\/strong> Rajya Sabha member Nabam Rebia has urged the government of India to relax the criteria to avail road projects under PMGSY-IV for the state of Arunachal Pradesh. Raising the matter in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Rebia said if the guidelines are not relaxed, a major chunk of villages in the state will remain unconnected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As per the present guideline, a village with a population of above 250 is eligible to get road connectivity in the NE states. Only 84 villages are eligible as per this, and around 500 villages will be left out,&#8221; said Rebia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0He appealed to the government to lower the criteria in line with the left-wing extremism-affected region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0&#8220;Population criteria should be lowered to 100 people and above in line with left wing-extremism areas affected. This will help many villages to get road connections in future,&#8221; Rebia added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 3 Dec: Rajya Sabha member Nabam Rebia has urged the government of India to relax the criteria to avail road projects under PMGSY-IV for the state of Arunachal Pradesh. Raising the matter in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, Rebia said if the guidelines are not relaxed, a major chunk of villages in the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-274709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}