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The rural roads are the basic infrastructure required for the development of rural areas. Rural roads have been planned and constructed under various rural development programs of the Government of India. On the other hand many roads that are built in rural areas could not be sustained. Careful examination of these has revealed that most efforts have not been effective due to the fact that in those programmes, the roads were not understood to be engineering structures. Many of the technical aspects of road making were never given due importance in rural road; e.g., adequate compaction of subgrade, drainage, required cross drainage and host of others. Poor subgrade soil conditions can results in inadequate pavement support and reduce pavement life. Our projects aims are to designing an all-weather road for a chosen rural site which has weak soil strata. There are plenty of appropriate technologies for rural road construction and maintenance using locally available materials. We also aim at using all these to the optimum level.