[ Source : Business Line / 29 Dec 2017
]
·
Total number of houses being
funded under PMAY (U)…………………….
37,42,667
·
Total number of houses
approved under PMAY so far……………………….. 36,00,819
·
Includes approval granted in 29th
meeting of Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee , as follows :
#
Andhra Pradesh …………. 142,447
# Uttar Pradesh………………120,645
# Karnataka……………………. 118,646
# Madhya Pradesh…………. 100,341
Now for the facts on the ground
:
The Narendra Modi government’s ambitious
project to provide pucca houses to all by 2022 may have to be scaled down, as the progress
so far has been rather tepid.
After a delayed start in November last year, the Pradhan Mantri Awas
Yojana (PMAY )-Gramin,
the main component of the project, saw construction of just 885 houses in rural areas
in FY17, a far cry
from the initial target of
building 44 lakh houses.
The ministry of rural development has now extended the deadline for
constructing the 44
lakh houses to the end of 2017, but even this plan looks very ambitious.
As per the original three-year plan, another 33 lakh houses were to be built in 2017-18, but
the government is not in a position to adhere to the target.
The scheme for urban housing (PMAY-U)
has also seen slow progress and the government blames the issue of land
acquisition for this.
To meet the objective of housing for
all by 2022, the 75th year after Independence, the government had launched PMAY-U in mid-2015 to
help build affordable houses in cities.
However, only about 41,000 houses have been built till end-March
2017, out of the approved 16.3 lakh houses under the scheme by the Centre.
The slow start of the PMAY-G would make it difficult for the government to
achieve the target of helping 1 crore homeless and people living in kutcha houses to shift to pucca houses of 25
square metres by FY19.
The
Centre’s budget outlay was only Rs 15,000 crore for FY17, less
than half of required amount of Rs 34,650 crore.
Like me , I am sure
,there are many who believe that the Government had done the right thing by
setting VERY AMBITIOUS
TARGETS , in 2015
Unfortunately , those who set the targets , got lost in bureaucratic
jungle , or did not get to read :
Shelter@ Speed of Snail ? [ S 3 ] - { 21
Sept 2017 }
02 Jan 2018
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nice one sir
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