PMAY- G houses unachieved
Launched in 2016
Aim
Providing 2.95 crore pucca houses with basic amenities to underprivileged people in rural areas by March 2024
Assisstance
each beneficiary gets financial assistance of up to Rs 1.2 lakh in the plains and Rs 1.3 lakh in hill states/Union territories to construct houses.
Targets
annual targets are set by the rural development ministry
State work
The states have to verify details of the beneficiaries and geo-tag their existing houses before releasing the first installment of funds to them for the construction. The houses have to be constructed within 12 months from the date of release of the first instalment of funds
Current Status as of March, 2024
Till 26 March this year, the ministry had sanctioned construction of 2.94 crore (2,94,79,938) houses, but several states and UTs have not fully constructed even half of the total sanctioned houses, according to data on the ministry’s dashboard.
- Andhra Pradesh, just 31 percent of the total sanctioned houses have been completed till 26 March.
- Meghalaya, Nagaland and Manipur, less than 35 percent of the sanctioned houses have been completed.
- Of the 35 lakh houses yet to be constructed across India, ministry officials said, close to 11.5 lakh are in West bengal.
- complaints were received about the state government changing the name of the central scheme to Bangla Awas Yojana… eligible families were deprived of houses and party workers were allotted houses in violation of the guidelines.
- Odisha has completed 20.8 lakh of the 27 lakh sanctioned houses.
- Karnataka has completed 51.7 percent of the total sanctioned houses
- Himachal Pradesh, around 15,000 of 25,000-plus houses have so far been constructed in rural areas and pending target of more than 9,000 houses.
