Question : Construction of Houses under PMAY-G

(a) whether the construction of more than 5 million houses for the rural people are to be completed by March 2018, and 10 million houses by December 2018 under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana–Gramin (PMAY-G);

(b) if so, the details thereof, Statewise;

(c) whether space technology and information technology platforms are being used to monitor the cycle of house construction, right from identification of beneficiary till the completion of construction stages of houses and each stage is being geo-tagged; and

(d) if so, the details thereof?

MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI NARENDRA SINGH TOMAR)

(a) to (d): A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.


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Statement referred to in reply to parts (a), (b), (c) and (d) of the Lok Sabha Starred Question No. 281 for answer on 15.03.2018

(a) and (b): In view of the commitment of construction of one crore houses over a period of 3 years from 2016-17 to 2018-19 under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana- Gramin (PMAY-G), the Ministry of Rural Development has requested the State/UTs to complete 51 lakh houses by March, 2018. As reported by the States/UTs on AwaasSoft as on 12.03.2018, 26,06,651 houses have been constructed. As informed by the States/UTs remaining houses are likely to be completed by March, 2018. In addition, the States/UTs have been requested to complete pending IAY houses by 31.03.2018.
State-wise detail of one crore houses proposed to be constructed is at Annexure-I.

(c) and (d) : Yes Madam. Implementation of PMAY-G is done through end to end e-governance model which is based on two systems given as under:

(i) PMAY-G MIS–AwaasSoft

(ii) PMAY-G mobile application- AwaasApp

AwaasSoft is a web based electronic service delivery platform to facilitate e-Governance in PMAY-G. All critical functions of PMAY-G like identification of beneficiaries from SECC, fixing of targets, release of funds, issue of sanction order to the beneficiary, monitoring of the progress of house construction, release of the assistance amount to the beneficiary, etc. are done through AwaasSoft.

The construction of the house is monitored by capturing geo-tagged, date and time stamped photographs of different stages of construction of the house. In order to capture the geo-tagged photograph, Ministry of Rural Development has launched mobile application- ‘AwaasApp’. The Ministry has also developed an offline module for data capture and transmission within the app to overcome the constraint of limited internet bandwidth. This application empowers officials and citizens to capture and upload geo-tagged, time stamped photographs of the house at various stages of construction like existing dwelling, proposed site of construction, foundation/plinth level, windowsill/ lintel /roof cost level and house completion.