Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced Phase IV of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana (PMGSY) to connect 25,000 villages with all-weather roads, and allocated an outlay of Rs 19,000 crore for the financial year 2024-25. She also announced three crore additional houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana in rural and urban areas. Of these, 2 crore homes will be constructed in villages under PMAY-Gramin (PMAY-G) with an allocation of Rs 54,500 crore. The Jal Jeevan Mission has been allocated Rs 69,926.65 crore, Sitharaman said in her Budget speech. While the overall…