The Centre Friday sanctioned over 2.5 lakh more affordable houses in 10 states under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (U).
According to the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry, thetotal number of houses being funded under the PMAY (Urban) is close to 84 lakhacross the country so far.
The approval was given in a meeting of the centralsanctioning and monitoring committee (CSMC) chaired by ministry secretary DurgaShanker Mishra.
“The flagship urban missions, particularly PM AwasYojana-Urban, are #TransformingUrbanLandscape at an unprecedented pace. In theCSMC Meeting held today we sanctioned over 2.5 lakh more houses in 10 States(sic),” Mishra tweeted.
According to him, out of 84 lakh houses sanctioned so far,Uttar Pradesh is the biggest beneficiary state in the country with 13 lakhhouses, followed by Andhra Pradesh with over 12 lakh houses.
“Total number of houses sanctioned now under thisvisionary Mission of Hon’ble PM stands at nearly 84 lakhs.
“Out of these, UP with 13 lakhs houses is the biggestbeneficiary State followed by Andhra Pradesh at 12+ lakhs housessanctioned,” the secretary added in his tweet.
Earlier this week, Union Housing and Urban Affairs MinisterHardeep Singh Pur had said that the target of constructing one crore housesunder the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) can be achieved by 2020-end, twoyears before the deadline.
The NDA government has spent 554 per cent more in five yearsthan the UPA government had in 10 years on urban development projects, thehousing and urban affairs minister had also said.
The PMAY (U), launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi inJune 2015, aims at ensuring housing for all by 2022 by providing financialassistance to beneficiaries.The government has set a target of one crorehouses in urban areas across the country over a period of seven years from 2015to 2022.