Question : Targets under PMAY-G

(a) whether the Government has fixed any target for providing housing facility to all the poor people in rural areas by the year 2022 under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) and if so, the details thereof, State/UT-wise;

(b) the number of people selected/ identified from the overall population of the country to be included under the said scheme, State/UT-wise;

(c) the number of houses constructed during the last three years and proposed to be constructed by the year 2019, State/ UT-wise;

(d) the details of the funds allocated and proposed to be allocated during the said period, State/UT-wise;

(e) whether the Government proposes to set up an autonomous registered society to implement and monitor the new schemes and if so, the details thereof; and

(f) the other steps taken/being taken by the Government to achieve the targets under the said scheme?

MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT
(SHRI RAM KRIPAL YADAV)

(a) to (c) : As per provisional figures of Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011, approximately 4 crore rural households face housing deprivation. After accounting for the houses that were constructed under IAY and State sponsored housing schemes since 2011, it has been estimated that 2.95 crore more houses, with an anticipated variation of ± 10%, would need to be constructed to achieve the objective of ‘Housing For All’ by the year 2022. In the first phase (from 2016-17 to 2018-19) one crore houses are targeted for construction under PMAY-G. State-wise/UT-wise targets of houses to be constructed during the period 2016-17 to 2018-19 is given at Annexure-I.
Targets for the remaining period (till 2022) will be decided after verification and finalisation of permanent wait lists, based on SECC 2011 data, by all States/UTs.
A statement indicating houses constructed during the last three years, State-wise/UT-wise, under PMAY-G/IAY is at Annexure-II.

(d) : The Government has approved the construction of 1 crore houses with the financial implication of Rs. 81,975 crore for the period 2016-17 to 2018-19. The financial allocation to each State/UT will depend on the targets allocated to the respective State/UT under the scheme.

(e) : No, Madam. However, to provide technical support in achieving the targets of “Housing for All” a National Technical Support Agency (NTSA) for Rural Housing shall be set set up at the national level.

(f) : To achieve the objective of ‘Housing for All’ various features have been incorporated into the scheme architecture of PMAY-G some of which are as below:

(i) Availability of sufficient financial resources both in the form of budgetary support and borrowing from NABARD to meet the expenditure for construction of houses.

(ii) Electronic transfer of assistance under Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) to resolve problems of delayed payments and expedite completion.

(iii) Comprehensive online monitoring through the scheme MIS-AwaasSoft.

(iv) Inspection and Geo tagging of houses, through the mobile app- AwaasApp by beneficiaries to reduce delays.

(v) Increasing number of trained rural masons through Training, Assessment and Certification.

(vi) Setting up of Programme Management Unit (PMUs) at state and sub state level to review progress on a daily basis, provide requisite technical support and facilitation and plug gaps in implementation using administrative funds available under the scheme.

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