The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation on Monday approved construction of 90,095 more affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) with an investment of Rs5,590 crore and central assistance of Rs1,188 crore.
Madhya Pradesh has been sanctioned 82,262 houses in 49 cities and towns with an investment of Rs5,260 crore with central assistance of Rs1,071 crore. Jammu & Kashmir got 4,915 houses in 24 ciaties and towns with an investment of Rs240 crore and Central assistance of Rs74 crore.
In Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar has been approved 663 affordable houses, Handwara-602, Badgam-476, Baramulla-393, Doda-306, Pulwama-270, Kargil-261, Sopore-205, Ganderbal-185, Bhaderwah-176, Shopian-159, RS Pura-143, Samba-121, Kishtwar-113, leh-99 and Poonch-96.
The approval accorded on Monday was for construction of 46,823 new houses under the Beneficiary led Construction (BlC) component of PMAY (Urban), enhancement of 773 houses in Jammu & Kashmir under BlC and building 42,499 new houses in Madhya Pradesh under Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP) component. Dadra and Nagar Haveli's capital Silvassa has been sanctioned 803 affordable houses with an investment of Rs26 crore and central assistance of Rs12 crore.
According to an official, in MP, another 39,763 new houses will be built under BlC component under which an eligible beneficiary is assisted to build a house on the land owned by him/her. City-wise approvals in Madhya Pradesh include: Indore-30,789 houses, Ratlam-6,419, Sagar-3,156, Ujjain-2,884, Katni-2,800, Shivpuri-2,625, Chindwara-2,508, Nagda-2,073, Jabalpur-2,012, Datia-1,726, Singrauli-1,716, Dabra-1,720, Vidisha-1,513, Damoh-1,480, Sehore-1,200, Sidhi-1,057, Astha-1,000 and Unchehara-1,000.
With this, total number of affordable houses approved for MP under PMAY (Urban) has increased to 1,87,135 and for Jammu & Kashmir to 5,864.
With this approvals, construction of a total number of 16,51,687 affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor has been sanctioned so far under PMAY (Urban) with a total investment of Rs89,072 cr with Central assistance of Rs25,819 crore.
Under BlC and AHP components of PMAY (Urban), central assistance of Rs1.50 lakh is provided for each beneficiary.