As many as 12,900 poor homeless families of Chhattisgarh got their own houses under the Indira Awas Yojana during the financial year up to February 2012. According to Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Hemchand Yadav, under the scheme, the grant amount for construction of houses for the homeless below poverty line families has been increased by one-and-half times from the next financial year 2013-14.
The Minister said, at present, a grant amount of Rs45,000 was being sanctioned to the poor families of general areas and Rs48,500 to the families of mountainous, inaccessible and integrated action plan (IAP) districts under this scheme. But from first April 2013 the grant amount has been increased to 70,000 to general areas and Rs75,000 to mountainous, inaccessible and integrated action plan districts. For this, he said, a provision of Rs66.50 crore has been made in the budget of financial year 2013-14 as the share of the State.
Yadav said about 12,900 beneficiaries have completed construction of their own houses with the grant received from the government. For the construction of these houses Rs140.79 crore grant had been sanctioned. Under this scheme, sanction for the construction of 56,855 houses with a cost of Rs143.60 crore has been granted to the forest rights 'patta' holder families till January this year, he added.
Similarly, during the period 2,856 houses with a cost of Rs7.01 crore has been sanctioned to the below poverty line families affected by flood in 16 districts of the State.
Yadav said, during the last five years construction of 2,22,917 houses had been completed and 1,546
houses had been upgraded under the Indira Aawas Yojana with a total expenditure of Rs727.93 crore.