The government, through the share of the Center and the state, provides funds for construction of houses to the beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY). representative photo/news18
Out of the total target of constructing around 26 lakh houses, UP has already completed the construction of 24.3 lakh at the highest completion rate of about 93% in the country.
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People have become “Lakhpatis” after getting houses under the PM Awas Yojana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said twice in the last week. message will not be lost Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh Where the Bharatiya Janata Party feels that the housing scheme can be a game changer for it, like the free cylinder program PM Ujjwala Yojana was during the 2017 elections in the state.
Sample this: Uttar Pradesh leads the country by meeting 93 per cent of its allotted target of building houses for the poor in the state. Out of the total target of constructing around 26 lakh houses, UP has already completed the construction of 24.3 lakh at the highest completion rate of about 93% in the country. The only state to come close to this record is West Bengal which is at around 82 per cent completion rate, though it has built more houses at about 31 lakh out of its target of 38 lakh.
Importantly for the BJP, all the progress in this plan in Uttar Pradesh happened in the last five years under Yogi Adityanath’s rule as the Samajwadi Party government did nothing, it focused on its state program Lohia. Rural Housing Scheme. Modi had earlier said that Rs 18,000 crore sent to UP during the SP regime for PM Awas Yojana remained unutilized. Uttar Pradesh has so far transferred over Rs 31,000 crore to the beneficiaries as the Center and the state share under the scheme. Each beneficiary gets around Rs 1.2 lakh to Rs 1.3 lakh for building a house.
The government, through the share of the center and the state, provides funds to the beneficiaries under Prime Minister’s Housing Scheme (PMAY) to build houses. Assistance is provided to the beneficiaries directly in their bank accounts through Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) or Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) in installments linked to construction. At each certain stage of house construction, a geo-referenced and time-stamped photograph of the structure is taken with the beneficiary.
In order to achieve the goal of “Housing for All” in rural areas, the Ministry of Rural Development is implementing Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Rural (PMAY-G) with effect from 1st April 2016 to provide assistance to eligible rural households with an overall target of constructing 2.95 crore pucca houses with basic amenities by March 2024.
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