Houses for all poor in AP by 2029
1 month, 1 week ago

Houses for all poor in AP by 2029

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada:Housing Minister Kolusu Parthasarathy has said all the homeless poor in AP will get houses by 2029. “The NDA government has promised to construct one lakh houses for the poor by December end, out of which construction of 80,000 houses has been completed. Work on the remaining 20,000 houses is progressing fast.” In a chit-chat with the media here on Friday, he called on social media users to avoid misuse of the forum and rather help raise awareness on socially important matters. “It would ensure that all eligible journalists receive accreditations along with other welfare benefits.” “The government is considering providing houses to journalists under the PMAY 2.0 scheme and I will discuss this with the CM,” he said.

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1 Lakh Houses Under PMAY: Naidu’s Target
1 month ago

1 Lakh Houses Under PMAY: Naidu’s Target

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu has speeded up the construction of one lakh houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana scheme in Andhra Pradesh. “Officials must hand over the completed houses to one lakh beneficiaries and the housewarmings should be done by New Year or Sankranti festival,” he said. He said, “We have intensified efforts to complete one lakh …

PMAY-G Expansion: Union Minister Highlights Initiatives for Rural Housing
2 months, 2 weeks ago

PMAY-G Expansion: Union Minister Highlights Initiatives for Rural Housing

The Hindu  

Union Minister of State for Rural Development Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar launches a two-day workshop on rural housing in Guntur. The workshop aims to provide training and capacity building to State government officials and beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G). The workshop will cover various aspects of the PMAY-G scheme, including application process, eligibility criteria, and implementation updates. The …

Deconstructing PMAY-U: What the numbers reveal
4 months ago

Deconstructing PMAY-U: What the numbers reveal

Hindustan Times  

The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Urban, an ongoing programme since 2015, is India’s largest urban housing programme. An unprecedented 11.9 million houses, which is about 10% of the Census 2011 urban housing stock, have been sanctioned across its five sub-schemes. The aggressive housing agendas of a few states and the popularity of the Beneficiary-Led Construction sub-scheme households—i.e., households with an …

Deconstructing PMAY-U: What the numbers reveal
4 months ago

Deconstructing PMAY-U: What the numbers reveal

Hindustan Times  

The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Urban, an ongoing programme since 2015, is India’s largest urban housing programme. An unprecedented 11.9 million houses, which is about 10% of the Census 2011 urban housing stock, have been sanctioned across its five sub-schemes. The aggressive housing agendas of a few states and the popularity of the Beneficiary-Led Construction sub-scheme households—i.e., households with an …

Urban Affairs Ministry to revamp affordable housing scheme
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Urban Affairs Ministry to revamp affordable housing scheme

The Hindu  

The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, a scheme to enable affordable housing for the urban poor, would be revamped with new features based on learning from the past nine years since when it has been operational, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs said on Tuesday. A senior official of the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry said that the revamp would …

Housing scheme to be launched for deserving middle class: Sitharaman in Budget speech
11 months, 1 week ago

Housing scheme to be launched for deserving middle class: Sitharaman in Budget speech

The Hindu  

Giving a boost to affordable housing, the government on Thursday announced a new scheme to help “deserving” sections of the middle class buy or build their own houses. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also gave a push to rural housing and said two crore more houses would be made under the flagship Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana -Rural. Ms. Sitharaman said …

Real Estate Budget 2024: Govt to launch housing scheme for the middle class
11 months, 1 week ago

Real Estate Budget 2024: Govt to launch housing scheme for the middle class

Hindustan Times  

The government will launch a housing scheme for middle class to buy or build their own houses, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her Budget 2024 speech on February 1. Government to launch ₹ 2 crore more housing units in the next five years under the PM Awas Yojana : Budget 2024 “Our Government will launch a scheme to help …

Budget 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman announces new housing scheme for middle class citizens
11 months, 1 week ago

Budget 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman announces new housing scheme for middle class citizens

India TV News  

In her last Budget announcement before the Lok Sabha elections for 2024, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman outlined various housing schemes. "Our government will launch a scheme to help deserving sections of the middle class “living in rented houses, or slums, or chawls and unauthorised colonies” to buy or build their own houses," she said in her budget speech. Image Source …

5 lakh houses ready for distribution, mass house-warming in September second week
1 year, 4 months ago

5 lakh houses ready for distribution, mass house-warming in September second week

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Around 5 lakh houses, of the total 15 lakh in the first phase of the Navaratnalu-Pedalandariki Illu scheme of the state government are ready for occupation, with Chief Minister Y.S. Ajay Jain, special chief secretary, said that against a target to complete 5 lakh houses by August-end, the AP state housing department completed 5,00,653 houses. Explaining the process behind …

Housing for all: The Hindu Editorial on scheme to help the urban poor build houses in cities
1 year, 4 months ago

Housing for all: The Hindu Editorial on scheme to help the urban poor build houses in cities

The Hindu  

The announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of a scheme to help the urban poor build houses in cities is a signal that the government is to undertake one more plan to address the problem of a shortage in urban housing. Even five months ago, its stand was that no new housing scheme had been envisaged following the extension of …

PM Modi announces new scheme to help urban poor build houses
1 year, 4 months ago

PM Modi announces new scheme to help urban poor build houses

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 15 announced a new scheme to help urban poor build houses in cities. We are coming up with a new scheme in the coming years that will benefit those families that live in cities but are living in rented houses, or slums, or chawls and unauthorised colonies.” The Prime Minister said that if this …

Eye on 2024 elections, Naveen Patnaik govt announces housing scheme for rural poor
1 year, 7 months ago

Eye on 2024 elections, Naveen Patnaik govt announces housing scheme for rural poor

Hindustan Times  

BHUBANESWAR: The Naveen Patnaik government on Monday announced a housing scheme to provide financial assistance to lower and lower-middle-income households in rural areas, the Odisha government said in an official statement. The housing assistance scheme Mo Ghara was cleared by the Odisha cabinet led by chief minister Naveen Patnaik Titled Mo Ghara Yojana, the scheme will cover all such families …

Union housing minister lauds AP's 30 lakh houses for poor plan
1 year, 7 months ago

Union housing minister lauds AP's 30 lakh houses for poor plan

Deccan Chronicle  

Vijayawada: Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Kaushal Kishore has lauded the Andhra Pradesh government’ move to allot house sites to 30 lakh families from poor backgrounds. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi wanted all the poor to get a pucca house by 2024 under the Centre’s housing mission. AP’s housing minister Jogi Ramesh said the state government had allotted …

AP wants to build homes for all needy, CM tells G20 delegates
1 year, 9 months ago

AP wants to build homes for all needy, CM tells G20 delegates

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy told the G20 delegates here on Tuesday that the AP government aimed at constructing homes for each and every needy family in the state. The Chief Minister interacted with the delegates and participated in the gala dinner he hosted at the venue on the Vizag beach road at the conclusion of deliberations of …

Roof over the head: How PM Modi's housing scheme for the poor is central to winning 2024
1 year, 10 months ago

Roof over the head: How PM Modi's housing scheme for the poor is central to winning 2024

Firstpost  

Free housing for the poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana has been a fundamental driver of the BJP’s growth in the Hindi heartland New Delhi: Soon after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a whopping 66 per cent hike in the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana to Rs 79,590 crore in the Union Budget, the most interesting political signal came from Lucknow. …

Implement rural housing scheme, else will reconsider funding other projects: Centre to Chhattisgarh
2 years, 5 months ago

Implement rural housing scheme, else will reconsider funding other projects: Centre to Chhattisgarh

Firstpost  

New Delhi: Centre has cautioned the Congress-led Chhattisgarh government that the Union Rural Development Ministry “shall be compelled to reconsider its support to its other core schemes” if it fails to duly implement the rural housing scheme. In a letter to Chhattisgarh Chief Secretary Amitabh Jain, Rural Development Secretary Nagendra Nath Sinha has mentioned that the state government has not …

Cabinet extends deadline to build 2.95 crore rural homes under PMAY-G to 2024
3 years, 1 month ago

Cabinet extends deadline to build 2.95 crore rural homes under PMAY-G to 2024

The Hindu  

Having achieved only 55% of its target, the Centre has extended its deadline to provide pucca houses to all families in rural India by two years, to 2024. In a decision taken by the Cabinet on Wednesday, the flagship rural housing scheme, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin, will be provided ₹2.17 lakh crore in additional Central and State funding to achieve …

House sites distribution big achievement in history of the country: Amjad Basha
3 years, 11 months ago

House sites distribution big achievement in history of the country: Amjad Basha

Deccan Chronicle  

Kadapa: Deputy Chief Minister S.B. Amjad Basha has said the Andhra Pradesh government's ambitious distribution of house site deeds to the poor as part of the Navratna programme is a great achievement in the history of the country. Addressing a public meeting, he said the state government, which is realizing the dream of the poor to own a house, has …

Beneficiaries will occupy PMAY(U) houses by 2021: Puri
5 years, 2 months ago

Beneficiaries will occupy PMAY(U) houses by 2021: Puri

The Hindu  

All the 1.12 crore houses being constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana will be occupied by beneficiaries by early 2021, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said. The minister said the government has so far sanctioned around 90 lakh houses which are being funded by the ministry and the number will go up to 1.12 …

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