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• Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban Gives Approval for Five Major Rental Housing Projects

  On Wednesday,the State-level Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee for the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) approved five major rental housing projects. These projects will include 45,841 housing units and dormitories to help migrant workers.Private entities will handle three projects, and public players will execute the other two. The agencies responsible for the houses and dormitories will ensure that all amenities are provided to the migrant workers. Under the scheme, single and bedroom units can be 30 sq m and 60 sq m respectively.The Union government will offer a partial subsidy through the Technology Innovation Grant (TIG) to help these projects implement innovative technologies.

  13 Sept 2021

• Koraput administration sanctions PMAY unit within 24 hours

  The Koraput administration are leaving no stone unturned to checkmate their Andhra Pradesh counterparts after being surprised by their rivals on more than one occasion, they are doing everything to get into the good books of the tribal residents of disputed Kotia panchayat in Pottangi block.The officials of Koraput administration within a span of 24 hours have allotted a house under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) to Hantal Erama of Neridivalsa village in the panchayat after her house was destroyed due to heavy rains and wind on Friday night. Erama had no house after a tree fell on it.The district Collector ordered the Pottangi block office and Revenue department to allocate the house to the Erama as soon as the news of her house getting destroyed spread.The damage was assessed by Pottangi tehsildar HP Mandal. Erama’s poultry farm too was destroyed, and hence was given Rs.10,000 along with a house under PMAY. According to reports, that this is a first by Odisha to take such swift action to offer relief to people hit by natural calamities in the panchayat.

  07 Sept 2021

• Sanjay Bandi asks for PMAY to be implemented in Telangana soon

  Yogi Adityanath the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh handed over the keys to 5.51 lakh people eligible for the benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Rural(PMAY-G) and Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana-Rural (CMAY-G) on Wednesday.Symbolic keys were given to five beneficiaries of Ayodhya, Sonbhadra, Raebareli, while the other beneficiaries took part in the event through a virtual medium.The Chief Minister expressed his happiness over the high number of beneficiaries under the PMAY being females.The beneficiaries along with housing, will also get toilets, arrangement of roads, arrangement of parks, and a cow protection centre.

  03 Sept 2021

• Sanjay Bandi asks for PMAY to be implemented in Telangana soon

  State BJP president Bandi Sanjay Kumar has demanded the TRS government of Telangana to implement the Prime Minister’s Awas Yojana (PMAY) for building houses to the poor and also ‘Ayushman Bharat’ on an immediate basis. Bandi alleged that the state government has failed in constructing the promised two-bedroom houses for the poor, while the COVID pandemic has hit common people hard with the absence of the ‘Arogyasri’ making life difficult for them.The Central Government had sanctioned Rs.2,285 crore of the Rs.3,500 crore for building of 1.40 lakh houses under PMAY within GHMC limits alone, but the State government had admitted to having constructed just 8,000 2-bedroom houses in urban areas where the quality was said to be low in construction.

  31 August 2021

• Department of Rural Development of J&K constructing pucca houses under PMAY

  Construction of pucca houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) scheme is being done by the department of Rural Development of Jammu and Kashmir in the Draman panchayat of Rajouri district. The houses have been built for people living below the poverty line. Until now, the beneficiaries of the PMAY scheme were living in kacha houses and had to face many problems during the winter season. The people of the far-flung hilly area of Draman Panchayat have also been provided jobs under the MNREGA scheme. The sarpanch of the panchayat has stated that 200 pucca houses are being constructed under the PMAY scheme.

  25 August 2021

• NHB has disbursed more than Rs.30,000 crore as interest subsidy under the PMAY scheme

  The National Housing Bank or the NHB has disbursed more than Rs.30,000 crore as interest subsidy to the affordable home loan borrowers who are enrolled under the PMAY scheme of the Government of India. The scheme was first launched in June 2016.

  25 August 2021

• Government Approves More Housing Constructions in Urban Areas Under PMAY Scheme

  Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY), the Indian government allowed the construction of almost 16,488 houses in urban areas, bringing the total number of houses sanctioned to over 1.13 crore. The decision was made at a meeting held by the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC), which was attended by officials from four states and union territories. PMAY’s verticals Beneficiary-Led Construction (BLC) and Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP) will be building the houses that are approved by the committee.

  17 August 2021

• PMAY a Boon to Many Says Uttarakhand’s Chief Minister

  Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami stated that the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is fulfilling the dreams of millions of owning a house. On 14 July, Dhami handed over house possession documents to 10 people at his camp office and added that each person would get a house at Rs.6 lakh under the scheme. Beneficiaries from the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) would have to pay Rs.3.50 lakh for the house while the rest is paid by the Central and State government. The Mussoorie-Dehradun Development Authority (MDDA) has built a total of 240 houses under this scheme. Made for economically weaker sections, the houses under this scheme have 505.04 square feet of super area and 237.56 square feet of carpet area.

  15 July 2021

• Government to pace up housing projects under the PMAY scheme

  Under the PMAY schemes – both Urban and Rural, the government had scaled down the targets earlier and had set them up to the construction of 21.4 million houses under the PMAY-Rural (PMAY-R) scheme and 11.2 million houses under the PMAY-Urban (PMAY-U) scheme by 2022.At the current scenario, the government will be required to pace up the construction projects to achieve the targets in the next one and half years. The rating agency ICRA has stated that the projects are way beyond schedule and it is important to speed up the process. As per the revised targets, the government had sanctioned 19.55 million houses under the PMAY-R scheme out of which 14.16 million or 67% has been delivered. Under the PMAY-U scheme, almost 11.2 million units have been sanctioned and 4.8 million units have been delivered indicating a completion of 43%. ICRA has also mentioned that the performance is likely to be affected in FY22 as well due to the COVID-19 situation.

  14 July 2021

• Government ask district to allot lands to 12,000 PMAY beneficiaries

  There are 12,245 beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Grameen (PMAY-G) scheme who are yet to be allotted a land in the state of Rajasthan.Chief Secretary Niranjan Arya in a letter to district collectors said that the 12,245 beneficiaries must be allocated land under the PMAY-G scheme. Arya has also asked for a campaign to be run for the allocation of land to the beneficiaries as soon as possible.As per the data, Ganganagar has the highest number of landless beneficiaries with numbers standing at 3,724, followed by Bundi and Udaipur at 1,229 and 1,224 respectively. Hanumangarh and Jodhpur have 987 and 873 landless beneficiaries and Jaipur has 420 landed beneficiaries.

  23 June 2021

• CM Thackeray states that 3.23 lakh homes ready under the Maha Aawas Abhiyan - Rural Scheme

  Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Uddhav Thackeray stated that around 15 lakh people have been benefited from the total of 3.23 lakh homes built under the development scheme of Maha Aawas Abhiyan – Rural Scheme since November 2020. During the virtual inauguration of the scheme, the Chief Minister stated that the rural development scheme had a target of building 8 lakh houses in 100 days. From the 8 lakh houses, 3.23 lakh have been built.The construction of these houses started in November 2020 and the residents would include construction workers, citizens with no land, etc.

  16 June 2021

• Andhra CM seek PM’s intervention to incorporate the creation of basic infrastructure in greenfield colonies

  The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking intervention to incorporate the creation of basic infrastructure in greenfield colonies as part of assistance given to state governments under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY). In his letter, the Chief Minister highlighted the fact that the state government has acquired 68,381 acres of land and allotted house sites to almost 31 lakh beneficiaries spread across 17,005 greenfield colonies. He added that the government can’t bear the cost of developing basic infrastructure in the colonies as it is assisting beneficiaries construct 28.30 lakh pucca houses with an estimated cost of Rs 50,944 crores under the PMAY scheme for both rural and urban areas. It needs to be mentioned here that over the past 7 years, the central government has sanctioned more than 3 crore houses to Andhra Pradesh with the central assistance of around Rs.3 lakh crores.

  09 June 2021

• Demand for affordable housing may rise further during the second wave of pandemic

  According to the real estate industry, the year 2020 was expected to be the year of recovery for them especially the housing sector. However, all the forecasts suffered a blow due to the outbreak of Covid-19 in India. Due to the outbreak, the industry accepted digitisation which helped them adapt to the new normal of working from anywhere even when the second wave of Coronavirus hit the country in 2021. Due to this the demand for affordable houses and workspaces with ticket size of Rs 35-50 lakh in Tier 2 and 3 cities/towns have risen. It is expected that despite the outbreak of the second wave of the pandemic and frequent lockdowns in many Indian states, this year is likely to see a growth in the housing segment of the realty industry.

  04 June 2021

• 4,884 people get flats under PMAY (U) in Pradhikaran

  Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), a total of 4,484 citizens won flats in Sector 12 of Pimpri-Chinchwad New Township Authority, better known as Pradhikaran. The list of beneficiaries was declared after a draw of lots by Ajit Pawar, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra. The flats have been allotted to the beneficiaries under the economically weaker section (EWS) and low-income group (LIG) category. A total of 3,317 and 1,566 flats are being constructed for the mentioned categories. The price of a EWS flat was Rs.9.90 lakh while that of a LIG flat was Rs.32 lakh. Beneficiaries under EWS category will get direct subsidy of Rs.2.5 lakh and those under LIG categories will get cross-linked subsidy of Rs.2.5 lakh on interest they pay on loan. It needs to be mentioned here that PCNTDA has stated that another 6,000 flats will be constructed in the same area and shall be allotted through the next draw of lots.

  24 May 2021

• PMAY flats to be available on rent in Indore

  Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) has decided to make Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) houses to be available on rent after failing to attract buyers initially.Residential units in Budhaniya area will be handed over to private agency so that people can avail them on a rental basis.

  06 May 2021

• Odisha govt. to seek more time to meet ‘Housing for All' target

  With only 62 percent of the construction target under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) being completed till date in Odisha, the state government is likely to seek more time from Centre to meet the target. As per a report of the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Odisha has achieved overall completion of 15,10,010 houses against a cumulative target of 24,23,012 houses. By March 2021, a total of 1.75 lakh houses were supposed to be completed in the state.The State has completed the construction of 9,21,941 houses against a target of 9,92,558 houses in Phase-I and 5,80,534 houses against a Phase-II target of 14,30,454 houses by the end of February as per a recent review of the progress of the flagship scheme.

  26 Apr 2021