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Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojona Rural R...

Dutta, Goutam

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Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojona Rural Road Construction Project Road No 216 (A)

Dutta, Goutam

IIMA-PSG0129(A) | Published July 30, 2018 | 5 pages Case

Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

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S.R. Pandey, Superintending Engineer (SE), Rural Roads Department, Patna, Bihar, wanted to meet all the agencies involved (including his other engineers and the contractors), to discuss his village road making project as part of the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY). This case discusses how the concept of work breakdown is used to subdivide all the activities of road making into different sub activities (earthwork, bridgework, roadwork and other miscellaneous activities) at different levels. The case demonstrates how with a series of statements in the meetings, the precedence diagram can be created.

To list down the activities involved in the project; How to create a work breakdown structure; How to develop a network diagram from a discussion of a meeting.