Centre to construct 50 lakh homes in rural areas under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin
Recently, the government said that more than 50 lakh homes will be built in rural areas across the country for the poor by March 31 under a central scheme bringing social transformation in villages.
Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin PMAY (G) a target to construct one crore new houses by March 31, 2019, was set. Of these, 51 lakh houses had to be completed by 31st March 2018, the rural development ministry said in an official statement.
The rural development ministry said in an official statement that under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin) a target to build one crore new houses by March 31, 2019, was set. Out of which, 51 lakh houses had to be completed by 31st March 2018.
After the launch in 2016, it took some time to complete the process of beneficiary registration, geo-tagging, account verification etc. Adding to it, the ministry said that it used Socio Economic Census of 2011 for selection of beneficiaries.
The homeless and those living in one kuccha room or two kuccha room with kuccha roof are the beneficiaries of this pro-poor PMAY scheme.
The ministry said that the homes are planned by the best of institutions after studying the current local design configurations and are constructed by beneficiaries as per their need. The expense for construction of the houses is directly transferred into the accounts of beneficiaries.
The poor are getting safe homes and can live with self-esteem with facilities like toilet, drinking water facility, electricity connection, LPG connection etc
To have transparency and corruption check, the Centre has set up an online policy where any person can see the building of homes with geo-tagged photographs and complete details of beneficiaries and expenses made to them.
The ministry has also decided to assign a study on social transformation to understand the impact of the housing programme.
Besides this, the National Institute of Public Finance & Policy will also study the governance reforms under PMAY (G) and the influence of higher demand for steel and cement on growth.
