The construction of 1.87 lakh additional affordable houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) with an investment of Rs 11,169 crore with central assistance of Rs 2,797 crore have been approved by the ministry of housing and urban affairs.
These were approved at the 30th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee meeting held in the Capital yesterday.
Haryana has been sanctioned 53,290 houses in 38 cities and towns with an investment of Rs 4,322 crore with central assistance of Rs 799 crore. Tamil Nadu has received 40,623 houses in 65 cities and towns with an investment of Rs 2,314 crore and central assistance of Rs 609 crore. Karnataka has been sanctioned 32,656 affordable houses in 95 cities with an investment of Rs 1,461 crore and central assistance of Rs 490 crore, a ministry release said.
Gujarat has been sanctioned 15,584 houses in 45 cities and towns with an investment of Rs 946 crore with central assistance of Rs 234 crore. Maharashtra has been sanctioned 12,123 houses in 13 cities and towns with an investment of Rs 868 crore with central assistance of Rs 182 crore. Kerala has been sanctioned 9,461 houses in 52 cities with an investment of Rs 284 crore with central assistance of Rs 142 crore, it said.
Uttarakhand has been sanctioned 6,226 houses in 57 cities and towns with an investment of Rs 258 crore with a central assistance of Rs 93 crore. Orissa has received 5,133 houses in 26 cities and towns with an investment of Rs 156 crore with central assistance of Rs 77 crore.
The approval accorded is for construction of 1.08 lakh new houses under the Beneficiary Led Construction (BLC) component of PMAY (Urban). The allocation is as follows: 26,672 houses in Tamil Nadu, 16,630 in Karnataka, 13,663 houses in Haryana, 11,411 in Bihar, 9,461 in Kerala, 8,768 in Gujarat, 7,088 in Maharashtra, 5,698 in Uttarakhand and 5,133 houses in Odisha
A total 36,056 in Haryana, 16,026 in Karnataka, 13,951 in Tamil Nadu, 6,246 in Gujarat, 5,035 in Maharashtra, 528 in Uttarakhand have been approved under Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP) component.
With the above-proposed houses, cumulative houses under PMAY (U) now total up to 37.83 lakh after final approval from CSMC. Further after subsuming projects of RAY scheme the total number of houses being funded under PMAY (Urban) would be 39.25 lakh houses.
source: moneycontrol
