Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Tuesday 2 January 2018

A WAIT WITHOUT HOPE ?

How  many   will  get  ready  by  2022  ?

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[ Source : Business Line / 29  Dec 2017  ]


Total number of houses being funded under PMAY (U)…………………….   37,42,667

Total number of houses approved under PMAY so far……………………….. 36,00,819

Includes approval granted in 29th meeting of Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee , as follows :

      #    Andhra Pradesh ………….  142,447

   #    Uttar  Pradesh………………  120,645

   #    Karnataka…………………….  118,646

   #   Madhya Pradesh………….    100,341


Now for the facts on the ground :



The Narendra Modi government’s ambitious project to provide pucca houses to all by 2022 may have to be scaled down, as the progress so far has been rather tepid.


After a delayed start in November last year, the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY )-Gramin, the main component of the project, saw construction of just 885 houses in rural areas in FY17, a far cry from the initial target of building 44 lakh houses.


The ministry of rural development has now extended the deadline for constructing the 44 lakh houses to the end of 2017, but even this plan looks very ambitious.


As per the original three-year plan, another 33 lakh houses were to be built in 2017-18, but the government is not in a position to adhere to the target.


The scheme for urban housing (PMAY-U) has also seen slow progress and the government blames the issue of land acquisition for this.

To meet the objective of housing for all by 2022, the 75th year after Independence, the government had launched PMAY-U in mid-2015 to help build affordable houses in cities.


However, only about 41,000 houses have been built till end-March 2017, out of the approved 16.3 lakh houses under the scheme by the Centre.


The slow start of the PMAY-G would make it difficult for the government to achieve the target of helping 1 crore homeless and people living in kutcha houses to shift to pucca houses of 25 square metres by FY19.



The Centre’s budget outlay was only Rs 15,000 crore for FY17, less than half of required amount of Rs 34,650 crore.




Like me , I am sure ,there are many who believe that the Government had done the right thing by setting VERY AMBITIOUS TARGETS , in 2015


Unfortunately , those who set the targets , got lost in bureaucratic jungle , or did not get to read :


Shelter @ Speed of Snail ? [ S 3 ]  - { 21  Sept  2017  }

https://myblogepage.blogspot.in/2017/09/shelter-speed-of-snail-s-3.html


02  Jan  2018
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs 




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