Chhattisgarh has been sanctioned 13,889 houses with an investment of Rs 533 crore having Central assistance of Rs 208 crore, Union Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs informed on Monday.
The Ministry has approved the construction of 3,18,900 more affordable houses across the country for the benefit of urban poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) (Urban) with an investment of Rs 8,692 crore with Central assistance of Rs. 3,782 crore across 308 projects in 6 States/UTs, it informed.
The approval was given in the 35th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee in its meeting held in New Delhi. Maharashtra has been sanctioned 2,48,360 houses with an investment of Rs. 5,728 crore with Central assistance of Rs 2,723 crore.
Out of the total approvals in Maharashtra, about 2 lakh houses are under the In-situ Slum redevelopment vertical.
Rajasthan got 31,304 houses with an investment of Rs.1,243 crore and Central assistance of Rs 470 crore. Tamil Nadu has been sanctioned 23,564 affordable houses with an investment of Rs.1,115 crore and Central assistance of Rs 353 crore. With the above proposed houses, cumulative houses under PMAY(U) after subsuming projects of RAY scheme the total number of houses being funded under PMAY(U) would be 51,06,760 houses.