Centre taking National Gramin Awaas Mission seriously
The Centre is homing in on rural India for a massive economic stimulus, with the Nitin Gadkari-led rural development ministry drawing up plans to spend Rs 3.45 lakh crore to build nearly 30 million houses for the homeless by 2022 under the National Gramin Awaas Mission.
The nearly Rs 50,000 crore a year programme in the works that seeks to turn Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of housing for all into reality envisages even bigger allocation than the previous Congress-led UPA government’s ambitious rural employment generation scheme – Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act.
The goal is to include all rural families that do not have a pucca house under the new scheme that will eventually replace the Indira Awaas Yojana that covers only families below poverty line. A note has been circulated for inter-ministerial consultation, after which it will be sent to the finance ministry, a senior rural development ministry official said.
This plan is basically to be sure that the homeless people get a home under the Gramin Awaas project. The central government has become very keen with this project.
Source: The Economic Times
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