Rural Works Department, Government of Bihar (India)

Development of rural roads brings multiple socio-economic benefits to the rural areas which form a strong base of the National economy. The connectivity of rural habitations through good all weather roads  has brought appreciable impact on Agriculture, Employment Generation, Industry, Health, Education, Transport facilities, Urbanization, Poverty Alleviation. The Government of Bihar (GOB) is committed to an all round Social and Economic development of the State. Recognising the role played by an efficient and high quality road network to the rural community. Towards this end, an elaborate programme of rural road development needs to be quickly initiated.  The responsibilities of construction of rural roads (with necessary culverts and cross-drainage structures) lie with the Rural Works Department.

Objective
The rural roads are built up according to standards and specifications led down by Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD),Government of India in consultation with Indian Road Congress (IRC).From the design stage to construction and Maintenance stage, the roads have to pass through rigorous specifications in terms Of geometrics, construction materials,technical standards and the whole gamut of Engineering parameters. In addition to these standards and specifications, an Integral maintenance provision for 5 years in the EPC contract is the near hallmark of the rural connectivity program.

Vision
The enormous task of building and maintaining roads poses a formidable challenge in so far assuring the quality technical workmanship and overall output along with real time rectification interventions is concerned. Given the manpower constraint of the department,system of various tiers of inspection, testing and measurements, reporting and rectification complied with engineering and administrative interventions is therefore urgently required.