Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana Gramin (PMAYG)

News About Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin

• PMAY-G gets extension till March 2024

  The extension of Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) till March 2024 has been approved by the union cabinet. Around 155.75 lakh houses were incomplete as of 31 March 2021. The decision to continue the scheme has been taken to complete the remaining houses. This will require an outgo of Rs 2,17,257 crore out of which the state share would be Rs73,475 crores and the central share would be Rs 1,25,106 crore.

  10 Dec 2021

• 31 districts of Rajasthan feature among top 100 performing districts under PMAY-G

  Data received from the rural development department states that 31 districts of Rajasthan have featured among the top 100 districts in the country when it comes to performance under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Grameen (PMAY-G) scheme. It needs to be mentioned here that barring two districts of Rajasthan, all have found a place in the top 100.Among all the selected districts of the state, six featured in the top 10, fourteen in the top 25, and twenty-two in the top 50. The six districts of the state which have found a place among the top 10 districts of the country are Dungapur, Naguar, Bharatpur, Jhunjhunu, Bikaner, and Udaipur. The rankings of the districts are 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th and 9th respectively. An official stated that the rankings prove that steady progress in being carried out on the ground despite facing financial crunch.

  18 June 2021

• Central Government asks Odisha Government to take corrective measures in PMAY-G

  The Central Government has asked the State Government of Odisha to take corrective measures in the PMAY-G scheme after noticing several irregularities. Some of the irregularities that have been noticed are in regard to the allotment of houses for the son and father and the construction of houses on government land. The Odisha Chief Secretary has been directed by the Rural Development Department to recover funds that have been provided to ineligible beneficiaries.

  15 June 2021

• PM Modi releases financial assistance under PMAY - Gramin

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) released financial assistance of around Rs.2,691 crore to more than six lakh beneficiaries in Uttar Pradesh via video conferencing on Wednesday.

  Modi said the government is ensuring that every person in Uttar Pradesh have a house of their own.

  The project will release first installment to 5.30 lakh beneficiaries and the second installment to 80,000 beneficiaries who have availed the first installment of assistance under PMAY-G.

  As of now, 1.26 crore houses have already been built in India under the scheme.

  25 January 2021

• Rs.658.40 crore released under first instalment for implementation of PMAY-G scheme in Rajasthan

  The central government has so far released Rs.658.40 crore under first instalment for the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Grameen scheme in Rajasthan. Based on the 2020-21 target, centre is supposed to pay Rs.1328.20 crore as first instalment. It must be noted here that the total funds required under Centre’s share is Rs.3119.20 and that of state’s share is Rs.2079.87 crore. The funds required to meet the 2020-21 target in the state is Rs.5199.67 crore. Till date, of the total target of 4.43 lakh houses, 1.92 lakh houses have been sanctioned and 9289 have been built in the state.

  8 December 2020

• PMAY-G houses in Manipur to be completed by December 2020

  The Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana Gramin (PMAY-G), had set a target of 15,842 houses to be built for the year 2020- 2021 in Manipur. Out of this, 8,444 houses have completed the process of registration. The remaining 7,398 houses will be completed by December 2020. This was announced by Thongam Biswajit Singh who is the Minister of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj. The households for the scheme for the year 2020-21 were selected based on the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC). For Phase II of the year 2019 - 2020, the target was 8900 houses out of which 8425 has been sanctioned. The remaining 475 will be sanctioned by December 2020. Under Phase 1 for the year 2016 to 2017 and 2018 to 19, 9526 houses have been built. The target for Phase 1 was 9740 out of which 214 have to be completed by November 2020.

  24 November 2020

• 90,000 applicants in Uttarakhand have yet to get benefits of the PM Gramin Awas Yojana

  According to a BJP MP, around 90,000 applications in Uttarakhand have yet to get benefits of the PM Gramin Awas Yojana. The main reason has been due to the lack of a target that has been set by the Central Government for states. The BJP MP has written a letter requesting the officer to ensure that the beneficiaries who are eligible get the benefits. Even though the money has been provided, no allocations have been provided due to no target being set.

  15 October 2020

• PMGAY hits an all-time low with only 0.06% houses built

  Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awas Yojana (PMAY), the Central Government’s flagship scheme which aimed to provide houses for economically weak people turned up with poor numbers as only 0.06% houses could only be built during the current fiscal. 

  According to a review conducted by the rural ministry, the government which had planned to build 61.5 lakh houses this fiscal could only complete the building of 2,880 houses. The government had announced that it will achieve its target of completing 2.47 crore houses by 31 March 2022. However, in order to achieve this, 1.21 crore houses had to completed during Phase II during the period March 2019 and March 2022.  

  The internal review also stated that till now only 54% people have received the first installment, and 64% houses have been sanctioned. 

  8 October 2020

• Only 50% houses completed under PMAY-G

  The government under Narendra Modi had launched a ‘housing for all’ scheme under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G). It seems like the plan is now behind its schedule. As of now, only 50% of the targets have been reached. This had been revealed by the Rural Development Ministry. The data also shows that 1.12 crore of 2.44 crore sanctioned houses have been completed. Through this scheme, the government promised that the ‘Housing For All’ scheme would be completed by 2022.

  17 September 2020

• PMAY-G houses in MP inaugurated by PM

  Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin scheme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated 1.75 lakh houses in Madhya Pradesh, across 12,000 villages in the state. All the houses were simultaneously inaugurated with the release of the ‘'grihapravesham’' plague. The work, which would have taken 125 days to complete, was completed within 40 days instead. Other schemes too have been linked with the PMAY-G scheme, such as Ujjwala, MNREGA, Swachh Bharat, and Saubhagya. The program was broadcast live with a registration of 1.25 crore people to watch it. It was broadcast across 26,548 villages and 16,440 panchayats. So far, 17 lakh households have become beneficiaries of this scheme in the state of Madhya Pradhesh. Ration entitlement slips will be provided to 37 lakh deserving people in the state from 17 September 2020, which is the Prime Minister’s birthday.

  15 September 2020

• 2.95 crore houses under PMAY-G by March 2022

  For achieving the objective of “Housing for all by the year 2022”, the government has launched the restructured rural housing scheme, Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G). and the target is to construct 2.95 crore houses with basic amenities by 2022.

  The selection of beneficiaries via a three-stage validation (Socio Economic Caste Census 2011, Gram Sabha, and geo-tagging) has ensured selection of the poorest of the poor under PMAY-G. The department took a lot of measures including IT/DBT for ensuring a flow of fund to the beneficiaries account.

  27 July 2020

• Progress report for the Rural Development Department released

  A book titled ‘Initiatives and Achievements 2019-20' was released by the Secretary of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj (RD&PR), Sheetal Nanda. This report contains the progress of the RDD of the Jammu division. 

  Sheetal Nanda had said that the booklet will be providing a window for the stakeholders to keep a lookout for the change which will take place in the rural areas of Jammu. The department will also be implementing various schemes of the state which are sponsored by the central government such as PMAY (Gramin), MGNREGA, 14th FC Award, RGSA, CD and Panchayats. These along with the 148 blocks of the Division have received their Block Development Council Chairpersons.

  The Director of Rural Development, Jammu has mentioned that under the PMAY (Gramin), poor families and families who are homeless have been provided with financial assistance. Along with this, a total of 1547 PMAY has been completed since its inception.

  24 July 2020

• PMAY-G in Udhampur completes 1,700 homes

  The construction of houses which comes under the Pradhan Mantri Gramin Awaas Yojana is underway in Udhampur district of Ghordi village.

  Mushtaq Chowdhary, Additional Commissioner Development had said that they had been given a target of 6,949 beneficiaries in the first phase and around 1,700 homes have been completed. The target group for the scheme had been those who could not afford a house.

  He had said that the house completion rate is 70% and this is the highest in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. In Block Ghordi of District Udhampur, around 771 beneficiaries have now been selected under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).

  08 July 2020