Punjab Government has decided to give a big push to Indira Awaas Yojna aiming at providing houses to the members of Scheduled Castes and Non Scheduled Castes free of cost in the rural areas.
“The beneficiaries under the scheme are selected from the list of eligible below poverty line household. A sum of ` 34.67 crore has provided under this scheme for the year 2015-16 whereas the expenditure of `32.52 crore was incurred during the last financial year,” said the spokesperson.
Spokesperson said that the houses under this scheme should normally be built on individual plots in the main habitation of the village, but can also be built on micro-habitat approach or in cluster within a habitation, so as to facilitate development of infrastructure such as internal roads, drains, drinking water supply and other common facilities.
He said that during 2009-10, a grant of `35,000 per unit was provided in the plain areas for construction of houses and `38,500 in the hilly difficult area for construction of houses which has further been enhanced to `45,000 in the plain areas and `48,500 in the difficult areas from the year 2010-11.