PAD - LGED

This indicator was constructed based on the following criteria:
o Access to GMCs (three points were given for each GMC along the road with a
maximum of 15 points);
o Access to Rural Markets (two points were given for each rural market along the
road with a maximum of ten points);
o Access to Primary Schools (three points were given for each primary school along
the road with a maximum of 15 points);
o Access to Health Care centers (two points were given for each Heath care centers
along the road with a maximum of six points);
o Bank/NGOs/Deep Tubewells/Shallow Tubewells/Mosques etc (one point was
given for each of this facilities along the road with a maximum of nine points);
and
o Number of km of roads (five points were given for each km of road lengths with a
maximum of 45 points)
15. Since a maximum of 750 km of UZR roads and 500 km of UNR will be included in the
project, an indicative number of km of roads were chosen to be targeted for each of the 26
districts based on a socio-economic score formed by three equally weighted factors:
(i) Population (the district with the highest population was given a score of one and the
other districts were score pro-rata);
(ii) Poverty (the district with the highest percentage of poor people was given a score of
one. The district with the highest percentage of people living in extreme poverty was
also given a score of one. The other districts were given score pro-rata. The simple
average of both score was then computed); and
(iii) Maintainable road needs (the district with the highest maintainable road needs was
given a score of one and the other districts were score pro-rata).
16. After setting the number of km targeted for each district, the following criteria were
applied:
• First, roads that satisfy the physical criteria were ranked according to the connectivity
indicator and a maximum of two roads per Upazila were selected to avoid overloading
any Upazila due to limited implementation capacity.
• Second, within the selected roads in the previous step, roads with the highest connectivity
indicator were prioritized within each district so that they do not overpass the targeted
number of kms per district.
17. LGED has carried out field verification of the selected candidate roads to confirm that
they have not been selected for remedial works using other funds, and that the secondary data
does fully reflect the field situation. After verification with District Chief Engineers, a list of 754
km of earthen surface UZR roads and 485 km of UNR roads have been identified as candidate
roads for the improvement component. These roads comply with all the above described criteria.
However, it is expected that the final list of roads will be confirmed after field verification.
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