• Sunil Kumar P
• Dr. B. Jayarama Bhat

Rural roads provide connectivity to rural areas which helps in the transportation of goods and services for the purpose of production, consumption, investment in pursuit of education and employment, besides transporting them for the purpose of travel and tourism. The rural connectivity helps in the mobility of rural population and rural production and helps in improving the rural population and increasing of their per capita income. Karnataka state’s road density is 3rd amongst the ten largest states of India (As on 31st March 2017). Nearly 1,77,542 kms length of rural roads is found in Karnataka in the year 2016 which has the highest per cent share (67.79 %) in the total road length of all categories and the same was increased to 1,90,862 kms by March 2019. The study explains the road development plans, status of rural road in India in general and in Karnataka in particular. Further authors examine the growth of overall charges in the rural development of rural road in long-run from the year between 1956-2019 and in short-run from the year between 2007-08 and 2018-2019. Furthermore, the study analyses accessibility of rural road network and district-wise rural road network development in Karnataka. The present study has been conducted based on the secondary data.

"RURAL ROAD CONNECTIVITY IN KARNATAKA - AN ANALYSIS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no.158-166, March-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2103021.pdf

"RURAL ROAD CONNECTIVITY IN KARNATAKA - AN ANALYSIS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 3, page no. pp158-166, March-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2103021.pdf