The Budget session of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly began with the Governor, Balram Jakhar, emphasising that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Government is committed to development and every effort is being made to ensure that the State ranks among the country's leading States. The Governor said the State Government had made significant progress in building new roads and repairing old roads on priority. The State Public Works department had constructed 9,886 km of roads with an outlay of Rs. 858 crores in the last two years, he said, adding that Rs. 4,300 crores would be spent on upgradation of another 16,200 km of roads in the next three years. Besides, work on over 25,000 km of roads is planned to be taken up in the next three-year period by the Rural Roads Development Authority.