FOR THE first time, Congress-ruled Telangana has proven willingness to implement the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) from the monetary 12 months 2024-25. The state has sought approval for 1.57 lakh homes to be constructed beneath the NDA authorities’s flagship rural housing scheme.
The Telangana authorities has expressed its willingness in a letter the state’s Principal Secretary of Division of Transport, Roads & Buildings despatched to the Secretary, Union Ministry of Rural Growth on March 16.
The stance of the present Telangana authorities led by Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy is opposite to that of the earlier BRS authorities that by no means carried out the PMAY-G ever since its nation-wide rollout on April 1, 2016. It was the one state that didn’t be part of the scheme.
In 2016-17, the Centre had allotted Rs 190 crore to Telangana authorities with a goal of 76,000 homes. Nevertheless, the state authorities didn’t implement the scheme. In keeping with sources, the state authorities at the moment didn’t need to comply with the Centre’s tips.
In its March 16 letter, the state authorities has knowledgeable the Ministry of Rural Growth that it has 2.86 lakh households with out homes as per the Socio-Financial and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 knowledge. “On this regard, it’s submitted that the State Authorities will adjust to the rules of PMAY (G) in all respects, together with branding,” the state stated in its letter.
“Due to this fact, it’s requested to contemplate for sanction of 1,57,500 homes beneath PMAY-G to the State on the earliest because the State Authorities has taken up the programme on high precedence,” it stated.
It’s learnt that the Centre is prone to permit the implementation of the PMAY-G scheme within the state. Nevertheless, the allocation of the homes to the state shall be created from the two crore further PMAY-G homes introduced by Finance Minister Nirmal Sitharaman in her interim Budget for 2024-25. The allocation of those further homes will start from the present monetary 12 months.
The Telangana authorities’s willingness for implementation of the PMAY-G comes at a time when the lately fashioned Congress authorities within the state has set an bold goal of development of 25 lakh homes. It plans to assemble 4.5 lakh homes this monetary 12 months, of which 1.57 lakh homes shall be within the rural areas. The state authorities intends to assemble these homes beneath the Beneficiary Led Development (BLC) of the PMAY-G.
The PMAY-G is a flagship Central scheme, involving the states, that goals to offer pucca homes with a minimal space of 25 sq m with primary facilities to individuals in rural areas who’re homeless or stay in kutcha and dilapidated homes.
Every beneficiary will get funds as much as Rs 1.20 lakh within the plains and Rs 1.30 lakh in hilly states, tough terrain, and tribal and backward districts beneath the Built-in Motion Plan. The funds are to be cut up in a 60:40 ratio between the Centre and states, respectively, with the goal of establishing 2.95 crore homes by March 2024.
Towards the mandated goal of two.95 crore homes, 2,94,78,374 homes have already been sanctioned to the beneficiaries by numerous States/UTs and development of two.59 crore homes has additionally been accomplished until April 3, 2024.
