NEW DELHI: The minister of state for housing and urban development Mr. Rao Inderjit Singh told Lok Sabha on Wednesday that 2.24 lakh homes have already been constructed for urban poor under the new and old housing programmes during the last two years. JNNURM, RAY, PMAY-U are being implemented with purpose of providing low cost houses and related civic amenities to the urban poor including slum dwellers.
The minister said these houses have already been built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) launched in June last year as well as the earlier Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewable Mission (JNNURM) and Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) that are being continued. The central government is supporting housing schemes under RAY and JNNURM till March 2017.
Out of Total houses built for the benefit of urban poor over the past a couple of years, Tamil Nadu has produced 37,355 dwelling units accompanied by Maharashtra with 36,992, West Bengal with 22,620, Rajasthan with 21,197, Gujarat with 15,861, Uttar Pradesh with 13,836, Delhi with 12,500, Madhya Pradesh with 12,216, Karnataka with 7,663, Andhra Pradesh with 6,583 and Chhattisgarh with 6,532 houses.Within this period, Bihar built 5,171 homes, Jharkhand 4,028, Kerala 3,870, Punjab 2,809, Telangana 2,552, Odisha 2,274, Nagaland 1,866, Haryana 1,402, Jammu & Kashmir 1,203 and Assam 895.
Mr. Singh said that under PMAY (Urban), the federal government has approved construction of 8,54,386 houses for the advantage of Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) with an investment of Rs 52,066 crore in which central assistance of Rs 12,602 crore is going to be provided. Additionally, interest subsidy continues to be extended for construction /upgradation of 8,004 dwelling units under PMAY (Urban).