The Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation has asked all states and Union Territories to submit proposals for construction of affordable houses for the urban poor at the earliest so that the ‘Housing for All’ target in urban areas could be met by 2022 as envisaged.
This was conveyed by Dr Nandita Chatterjee, Secretary (HUPA), during a meeting of the Central Screening and Monitoring Committee. She urged the states and UTs to expedite submission of proposals as per the latest demand assessment undertaken by them.
During the CSMC meeting, the Ministry approved construction of 78,703 affordable houses for the benefit of Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and West Bengal with an investment of Rs 2,956.32 crore. Central assistance of Rs 1,180.54 crore has been approved for construction of these houses. With these approvals, the total number of houses approved for the benefit of the urban poor under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), launched in June last year has reached 15,48,846. Total investment approved for construction of these houses is Rs 82,708 crore with central assistance of Rs 21,125.36 crore.
The Ministry also approved 52,336 more houses for EWS in Tamil Nadu with an investment of Rs 1,942.24 crore and Central assistance of Rs 785.04 crore. With this, the total number of houses approved for Tamil Nadu under PMAY(Urban) has gone up to 2,26,572 with an investment of Rs 8,144 crore and central assistance of Rs 3,461 crore. West Bengal got 21,285 more houses with an investment of Rs 861.62 crore and Central assistance of Rs 319.27 crore. With this, the total number of affordable houses approved for the state under PMAY (Urban) has increased to 1,44,016 with an investment of Rs 5,835 crore and Central assistance of Rs 2,168 crore.
The Ministry also approved 5,082 houses for the benefit of the urban poor in Kerala with an investment of Rs 152.46 crore and Central assistance of Rs 76.23 crore. The total number of houses approved for the state so far has gone up to 22,467 with an investment of Rs 755 crore and Central assistance of Rs 363 crore.
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