(a) whether the Government has prepared any priority list of landless rural families
living below poverty line for allotment of houses under Indira Awaas Yojana;
(b) if so, the number of such families identified so far, State-wise; and
(c) the number of houses allotted to them so far, State-wise?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI PRADEEP JAIN ADITYA)
(a)to(c): All States/UTs were requested in November, 2005 to prepare Permanent lAY Waitlists-one
for SC/ST and the other for non-SC/STs by each Gram Sabha for allotment of houses under Indira
Awaas Yojana (IAY). These lists were to be prepared based on the BPL List 2002 in order of ranking
in the list, the poorest of the poor being on the top. As per the information furnished by the
States, only 20 State states/UTs have prepared the Permanent lAY Waitlists. The remaining 13
States/UTs are yet to prepare such lists. In the absence of such Lists, beneficiary selection is
based on the BPL lists.
For the sake of Uniformity, funds under lAY are allocated based on the housing shortage furnished
by the Office of the Registrar General of India (RGI). As per the information furnished by RGI
based on 2001 Census, the total housing shortage in rural areas in the country is 148.34 lakh
houses. For calculating this shortage, the RGI have taken into account non-serviceable houses and
shelterless households. Accordingly, a statement showing State-wise housing shortage as per Census
2001 and the houses constructed from 2001-02 to 2008-09 is at Annexure. However, the Working Group
on Rural Housing set up for 11th Five Year Plan had estimated a housing shortage of 474.3 lakh
houses during the period 2007-2012. For this purpose, it had taken households without shelter in
2007, the number of temporary houses in 2007, shortage due to congestion in 2007, shortage
due to obsolescence in 2007 and additional housing shortage arising between 2007 to 2012.