evidence: Claim 2: Rural roads’ connectivity jumped 26 percentage points to 82% in 2018 from 56% in 2014. Fact: True. Till 2017, 130,974 of the 178,184 eligible habitations (73%) under the scheme were connected and another 14,620 (9%) were connected under various state schemes, bringing the total up to 82%, according to a rural development ministry release on December 15, 2017. At 55%, 97,838 habitations were connected under the scheme till 2013-14, according to rural development ministry data.