7 months ago

Deconstructing PMAY-U: What the numbers reveal

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 annual income of ₹3 lakh or less) in small cities were key to PMAY-U’s scale. Based on our findings, we propose improvements in programme design and monitoring, as well as broader systemic measures required to make the recently announced second phase of PMAY-U more impactful than the first.

Hindustan Times

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