Dreams for poor come true! Over 1 crore houses build over four years under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana

New Delhi, August 2: Under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana so far as many as 1.07 crore rural houses have been completed during the last four years. Notably, in a bid to fulfill the dream of having own house of poor's, PM Modi-led central government on June 25, 2015 launched the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) scheme.

 

During last four years, a total of 1.07 crore rural houses have been completed over the last four years (2014-15 to 2017-18) which include completion of 38.20 lakh Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY- G) houses and 68.64 lakh IAY houses that were sanctioned in 2014-15 and 2015-16 and prior to that.

If the figures of the current financial year are also added to this achievement under the rural housing scheme the achievement from 2014-15 till date becomes 1.13 crore completed rural houses. While 2.95 crore houses are set to be constructed by 2022 to achieve the set objective of PMAY-G which has been decided to achieve in phases. In the first phase, the target is a construction of one crore pucca houses by 31st March 2019.

The details of the rural housing scheme and progress can be seen from the website of PMAY-G, i.e. (pmayg.nic.in). A summary of houses completed, as on 31.7.2018, which shows an upward swing, is shown below:

 

The confidence of completing 1 crore PMAY-G houses by March 2019 also arises from the following which gives an idea about various stages towards completion of a PMAY-G house –

 

The confidence on timely completion is further strengthened by a recent study conducted by National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi, which has concluded that the average time of construction of a house under PMAY-G has gone down to 114 days as against 314 days under the erstwhile rural housing scheme, i.e. IAY.

In view of the availability of 240 days till March 2019, and keeping in view the current pace of construction of PMAY-G houses and various initiatives of the Ministry to closely track the progress of construction, the target of completion of 1.00 crore pucca houses under PMAY-G would be achieved by March 2019. In this way, Government would construct 1.70 crore rural houses between April 2014 and March 2019. The completed PMAY-G houses are changing the rural landscape and bringing social transformation in villages across the country.