Rajiv Awas Yojana
With the target of providing of providing houses for all by 2022, a new integrated National Housing Mission will be launched soon by merging some of UPA flagship schemes like JNNURM and Rajiv Awas Yojana. Noting that the gigantic task of ensuring housing for all needs large scale participation of private developers, Urban Development and [...] Continue Reading »
The Himachal Pradesh Government last Monday claimed it has constructed over 6,500 houses under the Rajiv Awas Yojana and the Indira Awas Yojana in the past one year. The financial assistance given under both the housing schemes has also been enhanced from Rs 48,500 to Rs 75,000. Besides two ‘biswas’ of land also being given [...] Continue Reading »
As accounted there is a shortage of 187.80 lakh dwelling units in the urban areas in the country with Uttar Pradesh which is topping the list as the Rajya Sabha was informed today. The Ministry is holding consultations with all the stakeholders on the scheme of providing ‘Housing for All‘ by 2022. This was state [...] Continue Reading »
The project implementation units (PIUs) of basic services for urban poor (BSUP) and Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), which take care of housing schemes totaling to Rs. 450 Crores in three different corporations are exploring for a merger. The PIUs will be merged as per the rules issued by the ministry of housing and urban poverty [...] Continue Reading »
The development work in 24 towns of Rajasthan continues to suffer as the new government has not yet initiated the reissuing of tender process of Rs 2,400 crore after they were cancelled in December by GS Sandhu, former Urban Development and Housing (UDH) additional chief secretary. After the cancellation, the department had claimed to adopt [...] Continue Reading »
Kochi: The Kochi Corporation had requested the state government for an exemption to provide individual housing loans to families belonging to below poverty line (BPL) under the Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) scheme. But the government failed to take up the request following which apprehensions have been raised about the successful implementation of the scheme. According [...] Continue Reading »
Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ajay Maken has shown pity over houses of slum dwellers in Mumbai. He has recently written to the Maharashtra Chief Minister asking him to stop the demolition work on the properties of slum dwellers. This had been done after the recent delegation of the National Alliance of [...] Continue Reading »
Haryana is to get Rs 16.68 crore from the Central Government for making nine cities of the state sum free under the Rajiv Awas Yojana. This nine cities include Gurgaon and Faridabad along with Karnal, Panchkula,Panipat, Ambala, Yamunanagar and Hisar. An amount of Rs 1.51 crore has already been released for conducting the survey and in [...] Continue Reading »
The Rajiv Awas Yojana was announced in the 2009 budget. It was a government initiative to improve the living conditions for the urban poor through the construction of houses in India for the so-called economically weaker sections (EWS). A critical part of the program, amounting to one-fourth of such projects, is developing rental accommodation. However [...] Continue Reading »
In a press release by the Government of India, The Ministry for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation department reported that to create a slum free India, Rajiv Awas Yojana has been launched. The housing scheme will provide financial assistance to States that are willing to assign property rights to slum dwellers and to provide basic [...] Continue Reading »
