NEW DELHI: Under the Centre’s ambitious housing scheme Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) facilitating access to affordable housing for the low and moderate-income group residents Delhi and Chandigarh have achieved 100 percent success among all states and union territories (UTs).
The government has delivered all the units sanctioned in 2015 under the scheme, with 29,976 houses in Delhi and 1,256 in Chandigarh.
On the top of the list of states, where the delivery rate is more than 90 per cent, include Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, and Arunachal Pradesh. In Dadra Nagar & Haveli and Daman & Diu, the administrations have delivered or completed about 92 per cent of the houses of the total number of units sanctioned.
According to the ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA), 90.25 lakh units have been grounded in 36 states and UTs and about 87 lakh of them are occupied. Under PMAY-U, 118.64 lakh residential units including 98.76 lakh houses for economically weaker section (EWS), 13.79 lakh for Low Income Group (LIG) and 6.08 lakh Middle Income Group (MIG) were sanctioned.
The number of houses grounded till February is 112.5 lakh including the units completed under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM); a city-modernization programme of the Centre.
The scheme was to provide pucca houses in urban areas across the country by facilitating central assistance to eligible beneficiaries of EWS, LIG and MIG categories by March 2022.
Responding to questions, in Lok Sabha, on the details of houses occupied by beneficiaries and measures taken by the Government to implement the scheme in a time-bound manner, Minister of State for housing and urban affairs Tokhan Sahu recently informed that states and UTs had been advised to expedite the construction of sanctioned houses so that all houses are completed within the stipulated timeline.
States and UTs, where performance is dismal, are Andaman and Nicobar Islands (12.5 per cent), Manipur (29 per cent) and Meghalaya (38 percent). The delivery rate of Andhra Pradesh is also 48 percent however it has delivered or completed 10.30 lakh units. The state had maximum houses sanctioned.
PMAY-U’s deadline has been extended till December this year except for the Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) vertical.
Based on nine years of experience and learning from implementing PMAY-U, the ministry has revamped the scheme and launched PMAY-U 2.0 ‘Housing for All’ mission starting September 2024 for implementation in urban areas across the country through four verticals; Beneficiary Led Construction (BLC), Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP), Affordable Rental Housing (ARH) and Interest Subsidy Scheme (ISS).