Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs approves proposals for construction of 16,488 houses

New Delhi: Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has approved proposals for construction of 16,488 houses at the 55th meeting of Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U).

 

The houses are proposed to be constructed under Beneficiary-Led Construction (BLC) and Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP) verticals of PMAY-U.

 

With this, the total number of sanctioned houses under PMAY-U has now gone up to over 113 lakh.

 

Of them, 85.65 lakh houses have been grounded for construction and more than 51 lakh have been completed and delivered to the beneficiaries.

Presiding over the meeting through video conferencing in New Delhi,



Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs Durga Shanker Mishra said that the demand for sanction has saturated in all States and Union Territories and and work should be done expeditiously towards completing all the projects within stipulated time.

The approval for proposals under Model-2 of Affordable Rental Housing Complexes was also reviewed by the Secretary with five states, namely Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.

 

A total of 59 thousand 350 units, including single bedroom and double bedroom units and dormitory beds, have been approved for urban migrants and poor, involving a Technology Innovation Grant of over 135 crore rupees.