Dreams of Indians coming true: Over 44 lakh houses under PMAY-G completed

New Delhi, April 12: A total of 44.54 lakh houses under the PM Modi’s ambitious Pradhan Mantri AwasYojana – Gramin (PMAY-G). Notably, each and every person living on the earth has a dream of owning a house and likewise, every Indian also wishes same. PM Modi has given a ‘Dream Come True’ scheme to the Indians by launching Pradhan Mantri AwasYojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) on 20th November 2016 from Agra. 

Under this programme, a target of completing one crore PMAY-G new pucca houses in rural areas by 31st March 2019 and 2.95 crore pucca houses by 2022 was set. However, so far a total of 44.54 lakh houses have been constructed.

So far 76 lakh beneficiaries have been sanctioned houses, approximately 63 lakh beneficiaries have received 1st installment. The highest number of PMAY-G houses have been completed in the State of Uttar Pradesh during the financial year 2017-18 followed by Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal. In fact, almost all States who have the highest number of PMAY-G beneficiaries like Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Jharkhand etc., are on course for completion of PMAY-G houses within the prescribed time-frame.

So far 38.22 lakh PMAY-G houses have been completed. With Assam and Bihar also speeding up completion of houses we hope to complete 60 lakh PMAY-G houses by June, 2018 and 1 crore by December 2018.

Completion of houses under the rural housing programme of the Ministry from 2013-14 to 2017-18 is as follows: (No. in lakh)

BACKGROUND:

Pucca houses constructed under PMAY-G with facilities like toilet, LPG connection, electricity connection, drinking water etc., are changing the rural landscape at a very fast pace. In some states, PMAY-G houses are coming up in clusters/colonies which are generally for landless beneficiaries and these are provided many facilities in convergence with various Central and State schemes.

Technology has been used to empower the poor. House designs prepared by UNDP-IIT, Delhi or by the concerned states have been made available to beneficiaries to choose the house designs that they like. 168 house designs typologies, suitable to local conditions and using locally available construction material, have been developed for 15 States. These house designs are cost-effective & disaster resilient and they have been vetted by Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee. Bouquet of these house designs has resulted in technically sound houses of different designs coming up in rural areas which are a treat to watch. These homes are not only changing the rural landscape but also bringing about a social transformation in villages across the country. The poor are getting safe homes and can live with dignity.

To achieve “Housing for All by 2022”, a target of completing one crore PMAY-G new pucca houses in rural areas by 31st March 2019 and 2.95 crore pucca houses by 2022 was set. Of these, 51 lakh houses were to be completed by 31st March 2018, which included completion of expected 2 lakh incomplete IAY houses as well.

The performance of the rural housing scheme has shown upward swing, increased nearly four times in the last four years. This is despite the fact that it took a few months to complete the process of beneficiary registration, geo-tagging, account verification etc. after the programme’s launch on 20th November 2016.