THE MINISTER OF HOUSING & URBAN POVERTY ALLEVIATION (KUMARI SELJA)
(a) to (e) : A Statement is laid on the Table of the Sabha.
STATEMENT
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 30 FOR 02.8.2011
REGARDING IMPLEMENTATIN OF RAJIV AWAS YOJANA
(a): In pursuance of the Government’s vision of creating a Slum-free India, a
new scheme ‘Rajiv Awas Yojana’ (RAY) has been launched on 02.06.2011.
(b): The Scheme will provide financial assistance to States that are willing to
assign property rights to slum dwellers for provision of decent shelter and basic
civic and social services for slum redevelopment, and for creation of affordable
housing stock. Fifty percent (50 %) of the cost of provision of basic civic and
social infrastructure and amenities and of housing, including rental housing,
and transit housing for in-situ redevelopment – in slums would be borne by the
Centre, including operation & maintenance of assets created under this scheme.
For the North Eastern and Special Category States the share of the Centre would
be 90% including the cost of land acquisition, if required.
In order to incentivize land assembly and increase affordable housing
stock, as part of the slum containment strategy, the scheme of Affordable
Housing in Partnership will be dovetailed with RAY and central support will
provided at the rate of Rs. 50,000 per unit of affordable dwelling unit or 25%
of the cost of civic infrastructure (external and internal), whichever is lower.
As a means of Credit Enablement, the Interest Subsidy Scheme for Housing the
Urban Poor (ISHUP), will also be dovetailed with RAY, with the existing ceiling
of the subsidized loan of Rs. 1.00 lakh.
The Government has approved the establishment of Credit Risk Guarantee Fund
to facilitate lending to the urban poor for housing purposes, with an initial
corpus of Rs. 1000 crore in the current year.
(c): The selection of the cities will be done in consultation with the Centre.
The Scheme is expected to cover about 250 cities, mostly with population of more
than three lakh, across the entire country by the end of 12th Plan (2017). The
States would be required to include all the mission cities of JNNURM, preferably
cities with more than 3 lakh population as per 2001 Census; and other smaller
cities, with due consideration to the pace of growth of the city, of slums
predominance of minority population, and areas where property rights are
assigned. The scheme will progress at the pace set by the States. The list
of 157 cities to which funds have been released for undertaking preparatory
activities under Slum Free City Planning Scheme i.e. the preparatory phase
of RAY is enclosed at Annexure.
(d) & (e): The central assistance under RAY is conditional to reforms
by the States. The reforms required here are directly linked to the objectives
of the scheme, and necessary for the scheme to be successful. The key reform
under the scheme for availing financial assistance is enactment of law for
assigning of property rights by concerned States/UTs.
