Since 2016, Bihar got over 37 lakh PMAY-G houses: Rural development MoS in Rajya Sabha

The PMAY-G was launched on April 1, 2016 to achieve the objective of “Housing for All” in rural areas with the overall target of construction of 2.95 crore pucca houses with basic amenities by 2024. The funds under the scheme are released to the states on the basis of proposal received from the State based on the requirement of beneficiaries who have been sanctioned houses. Other criteria include unspent balance available in the State Nodal Account and achievements of prescribed physical and financial progress as per the programme guidelines.

“The identification of beneficiaries under PMAY-G is based on the housing deprivation parameters and exclusion criteria prescribed under Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011. These criteria are applied on SECC 2011 database and a system generated priority list of households from the database is deliberated upon in Gram Sabha meetings,” Pemmasani said in a written reply.

“After due verification by the Gram Sabhas and completion of Appellate Process, Gram panchayat-wise Permanent Wait List (PWL) is prepared. Thereafter, Awaas+ survey was conducted during January 2018 to March 2019 to identify those beneficiaries who though were eligible for inclusion in PWL, but claimed to be left out from the SECC 2011. In this exercise, the States/UTs had uploaded details of additional households, which were also subjected to Gram Sabha verification and Appellate Process,” he added.