2. “In India, tertiary roads are given tertiary treatment”. In this context, elaborate on the importance of developing rural roads in the country. Also highlight the success of PMGSY in ushering the much-needed bottom-up reforms.

Approach:

The statement tries to give a negative connotation but students need to highlight the existing poor state of rural roads in the country in brief. In the later part they should elaborate on importance of rural roads and successes of PMGSY. There is no need to cite the provision of PMGSY