The Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ministry has approved the construction of 70,784 affordable houses for the urban poor in Uttar Pradesh under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) with an investment of Rs 3,528 cr for which a Central assistance of Rs 1,062 cr has been approved. During the erstwhile Akhilesh Yadav regime, the Uttar Pradesh Government had sent proposal only once in two years for about 13,000 houses while the Yogi Adityanath dispensation has sent in one go proposal for over 70,000 houses for 145 cities.
With the latest approval, the total number of houses sanctioned under the PAMY (Urban) has reached 20.95 lakh since the launch of the scheme two years ago, the Ministry said in a statement. "HUPA Minister M Venkaiah Naidu held discussion with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath soon after assumption of office, the State Government sent affordable housing proposals for 145 cities and the same have been approved", the Ministry said.
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.
Karnataka has been sanctioned 56,281 more affordable houses for 93 cities and towns with an investment of Rs 2,950 crore 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.
Earlier, the Ministry had asked State Governments and UTs to submit proposals for construction of affordable houses at the earliest so that the Narendra Modi government's "Housing for All" scheme target in urban areas could be met by 2022 as envisaged.