The Center has turned down the Uttar Pradesh (UP) authorities’s request for approval of homes for 13 lakh extra “eligible beneficiaries” beneath the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G).
In a letter to Union Rural Development Minister Giriraj Singh in April this yr, UP Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya had urged the Center to sanction 13 lakh homes beneath PMAY-G in 2022-23, along with 11.66 lakh homes. was authorised. As per the “Accommodation+” listing in 2020-21 and 2021-22.
However, in his reply despatched in May, Singh instructed Maurya that UP has already been given a “full and final” allotment of 11.66 lakh homes as per the suggestions of the knowledgeable committee.
The Center had launched PMAY-G in 2016 with the intention of offering homes to all in rural areas by 2022 (the scheme was later prolonged to 2024), and a goal of constructing 2.95 crore homes. While 2.15 crore beneficiaries have been recognized utilizing specified parameters from the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 database, the remaining 80 lakh beneficiaries have been recognized by the Union Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) by way of states and union territories. Went. Through a survey utilizing ‘Housing+’ – a cellular software designed to survey households not coated in SECC 2011.
According to sources within the Ministry of Rural Development, 14.49 lakh households in UP have been discovered eligible as per SECC parameters after verification. The UP authorities discovered one other 32.86 lakh beneficiaries eligible after verifying the main points uploaded within the ‘Awas+’ survey. But the Center has mentioned that the knowledgeable committee constituted to research the ‘Awas+’ knowledge discovered solely 11.66 lakh eligible.
While the hole between the variety of properties discovered eligible by the state authorities based mostly on ‘Housing+’ knowledge and people authorised by the Center is excessive, the state is pushing for a further 13 lakh homes.
According to ministry knowledge, until August 17 this yr, the Center had focused 26.15 lakh homes (14.49 lakh from SECC knowledge, 11.66 lakh from Awas Plus survey) in UP beneath PMAY-G, out of which 25.79 lakh homes have been focused. went. have been accomplished.
But, looking for extra homes beneath the scheme, Maurya, in his letter to Singh dated April 7, mentioned: “Under PMAY-G, houses have been provided to 14.49 lakh beneficiaries, who are eligible as per the SECC 2011 list. In addition, out of 11.66 lakh houses sanctioned as per ‘Awas+’ list, 10.78 lakh beneficiaries’ houses have been completed and remaining houses will be completed by April 2022. Still 13 lakh eligible as per Awas+ list There are beneficiaries for whom the house has to be sanctioned.”
Maurya mentioned that out of the 80 lakh homes to be constructed throughout the nation as per the Housing+ listing, the Center has allotted 11.66 lakh homes to UP for 2020-21 and 2021-22. “Thereafter, no more houses are to be allotted to the state,” he wrote, including that UP is not going to get any housing goal beneath PMAY-G in 2022-23, although 13 lakh beneficiaries are but to be coated. was.
In his reply on 27 May, Rural Development Giriraj Singh wrote: “In this matter, I wish to inform you that so as to obtain the ‘Housing for All’ goal, the overall goal of building of two.95 crore homes beneath PMAY has been set. -G… As per SECC 2011, there are (approx) 2.15 crore eligible beneficiaries and ‘Awas+’ listing is getting used to fill the remaining 80 lakh hole. It can also be value mentioning that ‘ As per the suggestions of the Expert Committee constituted to research the ‘Awas+’ knowledge, a goal of 63.68 lakh homes has been allotted to the States and Union Territories, which incorporates the total and closing allotment of 11,66,127 homes to Uttar Pradesh.
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“Therefore, as per the recommendations of the expert committee, the full permissible target has been allotted to Uttar Pradesh,” Singh wrote.
As per the advice of the knowledgeable panel, UP acquired the total allotment beneath Awas+ solely final yr; Sources within the ministry mentioned that subsequently “no fresh allocation” has been made this yr.
Earlier, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had additionally written to the then Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar, demanding the allotment of 25.54 lakh homes to the state as per the Housing+ listing for 2021-22. This demand was additionally made by UP Rural Development Minister Rajendra Pratap Singh in a letter written to Tomar on 2 February 2021.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
