Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana - Gramin
Government on course to achieve targets under
Rural Housing Programme (PMAY-G)
A record of 10 lakh houses built in a year
Hon'ble
Prime Minister launched Pradhan Mantri Awas
Yojana (Gramin) on 20th
November, 2016 from Agra. A target of completing
one crore new houses by
31st March, 2019 was set. Of these, 51 lakh
houses are to be completed
by 31st March, 2018.
To meet the challenge of assisting 51 lakh
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (Gramin) beneficiaries
in construction of
their homes by March, 2018, the Ministry of Rural
Development, in
partnership with the State Governments, has taken
many steps, including
setting month-wise target for completion of
houses. The target for
completion of 10 lakh houses by November, 2017 has
been achieved on 29th
November, 2017, i.e. before the appointed date
for completion of 10
lakh houses. It is expected that 15 lakh houses
will be completed by
31st December 2017; 25 lakh houses by 31st
January, 2018; 35 lakh houses
by 28th February, 2018 and 51 lakh houses by 31st
March, 2018.
Towards
meeting the target of construction of 51 lakh
houses by March, 2018,
while 56.90 lakh beneficiaries have been
sanctioned houses, 51.39 lakh
beneficiaries have received 1st instalment, 31.03
lakh beneficiaries
have nearly reached roof-cast levels and for 16.05
lakh beneficiaries
the house construction is nearing completion.
States like Chhattisgarh,
Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa,
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh
and West Bengal, who have highest number of
PMAY-G beneficiaries, are
on course for completion of PMAY-G houses within
the prescribed
time-frame.
The faster completion of quality houses has been
assisted by payment of assistance directly into
the beneficiary account
through IT-DBT platform. To ensure good quality of
house construction,
Rural Mason Trainings have been organized to
facilitate availability of
trained masons in the rural areas. Space
technology and IT platforms are
being used to monitor complete cycle of house
construction, right from
identification of beneficiary to construction
stages of houses to
completion and each stage is being geo-tagged.
States have taken
adequate steps to ensure continuous availability
of construction
material at reasonable prices so that the pace and
quality of
construction is not adversely affected.
PMAY-G houses with
facilities like toilet, LPG connection,
electricity connection, drinking
water etc., are changing the countryside at a
faster pace. While in
some states houses under PMAY-G are coming up in
clusters / colonies
(generally for landless beneficiaries), at other
places they are being
constructed on the beneficiary's land. House
designs prepared by
UNDP-IIT, Delhi or by the concerned states have
been made available to
beneficiaries to choose the house designs that
they like. Bouquet of
house designs has resulted in technically sound
houses of different
designs coming up in rural areas which are a treat
to watch.
The
progress of PMAY(G) is in public domain and can be
seen by any one on
awaassoft.nic.in with geo-tagged photographs and
complete details of
beneficiaries and payments made to them.
PIB
