Northeast Major beneficiary under PMAY-Urban, says Centre

Our Correspondent

New Delhi: The Centre on Thursday said that northeastern States are amongst the other major beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantra Awas Yojana (PMAY-Urban).

The PMAY-Urban is a flagship initiatives of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA). The ministry has recently sanctioned thousands of such houses taking the figure upto 1 crore.

“Achieving 1 crore housing target is a milestone. Ever since the mission was started in 2015, almost all the States have got immense benefit. The northeastern States are the major beneficiaries of this scheme,” said Minister for Housing and Urban Development Hardeep Singh Puri.

MoHUA statistics available with this correspondent said that Assam has got 96,989 houses under the PMAY scheme. Other States which got houses are Manipur (42,823), Mizoram (30,339), Meghalaya (4,672), Nagaland (32,001), Tripura (82,011), Arunachal Pradesh (7,230) and Sikkim (537).

Tagged as a success story of the BJP-led Central Government, the housing for all mission aims to provide pucca house to every household by 2022, especially to the economically weaker section.

“The scheme synergises public, private and peoples partnership. However, its prime movers are the beneficiaries who have invested their lives savings and efforts to fulfill the dreams of owing a house. This enthusiastic participation have resulted in delivery of 32 lakh houses already. The States and UTs have played steward role in this journey though urban local bodies and concerned departments,” said MoHUA secretary Durga Shankar Mishra.

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