Bihar Govt urges Centre to release pending Rs 3,000 crore fund under PMAY-G

The Bihar Government has urged the Centre to release the pending Rs 3,000 crore fund under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna Gramin at the earliest, a minister said in the State assembly on Wednesday.

While replying to a query during question hour in the assembly, State Rural Development Minister Sharwan Kumar said the Centre released Rs 91 crore in January, and the fund was “distributed among PMAY-G beneficiaries without an SNA account”.  “There is a problem on our part that we were not able to create an SNA account so far for the distribution of funds under the PMAY-G.

We have urged the Centre to release Rs 3,000 crore, which we can distribute to the beneficiaries without SNA,” he added. The Single Nodal Agency (SNA) system is a major reform initiated in 2021 with regard to the manner in which funds for centrally sponsored schemes (CSS) are released, disbursed and monitored. Funds under PMAY-G are transferred directly to the beneficiary accounts from SNA through the PFMS-Awaas Soft platform.