PRADHAN MANTRI AWAAS YOJNA – GRAMIN

Aug. 24, 2018

PM Narendra Modi dedicated over one lakh houses built under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojna – Gramin in Gujarat’s Valsad district as a step towards ensuring "Housing for All" by 2022.

Background:

Rural Housing programme, as an independent programme, started with Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) in 1996. However CAG in its report published in 2014 identified Gaps related to lack of transparency in selection of beneficiaries, low quality of houses etc.
To address these gaps and in view of government’s commitment to provide ‘Housing for All’ by 2022, IAY was restructured into Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojna – Gramin (PMAY-G) in 2016.

Salient features:

Vision: To provide a pucca house with basic amenities to all houseless hoseholds and those living Kutcha House/Dilapidated House by 2022.
Immediate target: To cover 1 crore households living in Kutcha House/Dilapidated House in 3 years from 2016-17 to 2018-19.
Minimum size of the house has been increased to 25 sq.mt. from 20 sq.mt. with a hygienic cooking space.
The cost of unit assistance is to be shared between central and state governments in the ration 60:40 in plain areas and 90:10 for North Eastern and Himalayan states.
Beneficiaries are selected using housing deprivation parameters in the Socio Economic And Caste Census (SECC), 2011 data which is to be verified by the Gram Sabhas.