NEW DELHI: Government’s plan to provide housing to common people has started moving fast. On Thursday, ministry of Housing has approved 1,27,674 more houses with an investment of Rs 6,532 crore in various parts of the country. While Utter Pradesh got 70,784 more houses for urban poor under PMAY (Urban), Karnataka has got 56,281 more units.
Officials said that Plan for the housing in UP has been approved under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) with an investment of Rs3,528 crore for which central assistance of Rs 1,062 crore has been approved.
Further to the discussion union housing minister M Venkaiah Naidu held with the CM of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath soon after assumption of office, the State Government sent affordable housing proposals for 145 cities and the same have been approved. Earlier, Uttar Pradesh has been sanctioned 41,954 houses including those approved under Rajiv Awas Yojana, which has been now subsumed under PMAY (Urban). With these latest approvals, the total number of houses sanctioned for Uttar Pradesh has increased to 1,12,738.
Of the 70,784 houses approved, 56,839 will be constructed under the Affordable Housing in Partnership component and 13,945 houses under Beneficiary Led Construction component of PMAY(Urban). Under these two components, central assistance of Rs.1.50 lakh is given to each beneficiary.
Under the latest approvals, Lucknow has got 1,525 houses, Gorakhpur-501, Ayodhya-500, Iltifatganj-903, Faizabad-769, Dudhi-765, Rudauli-713, Singahi Bhiraura-821, Chatra-783, Purdhinagar-674, Kanpur Dehat-442, Daurala-505, Sikandra-447, Akbarpur-449, Aliganj-511, Bareily-139 and Azamgarh-119.
Officials said that Karnataka has been sanctioned 56,281 more affordable houses for 93 cities and towns with an investment of Rs.2,950 cr and Central assistance of Rs.844 crore.
Bengaluru has been sanctioned 8,291 houses, Bellary-1,613, Shivamogga-1,500, Chennapatna-1,450, Hubbali-1,300, Dharwar-1,292, Challakere-1,127, Kanakpur-1,163 and Sira-1,008.
For the first time, Andaman & Nicobar Islands has been sanctioned 609 houses for Port Blair with an investment of Rs.54 crore and central assistance of Rs.9.00 crore.
With these latest approvals, the total number of affordable houses approved for construction under PMAY (Urban) has increased to 20,95,718.