Govt plans to sanction 1 cr houses before 2020

NEW DELHI: The Union housing and concrete affairs ministry initiated a number of schemes in 2018 and plans to sanction building of 1 crore properties earlier than 2020 below the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (city), a move geared toward making sure 'housing for all by means of 2022'.

The ministry is mandated to enforce numerous flagship programmes - Swachh Bharat Mission, PMAY (U), Smart City Mission, National Heritage City Development and Augmentation Yojana (HRIDAY), Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) amongst others.

An professional of the ministry mentioned that since April 2018, 1,612 cities had been declared as open defecation unfastened (ODF) taking the full number to 4124 around the nation below Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban).

The professional mentioned that building of almost 62 lakh individual household bathrooms and five lakh community and public rest room seats is already over or nearing of completion.

Further, city areas of 21 states and union territories had been declared ODF, together with Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Chandigarh, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Haryana, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh.

The city and housing ministry additionally introduced ‘Swachh Survekshan', a move geared toward fostering wholesome competition amongst cities for bettering cleanliness requirements.

Indore had secured first rank in 'Swachh Survekshan' in 2017. The third round used to be performed from January 4 to March 10, 2018 protecting 4203 statutory cities in India.

Indore, Bhopal and Chandigarh had emerged as the highest three cleanest cities in the nation. Swachh Survekshan 2019, introduced on August 13, 2018, will cover all city local bodies in the nation and start from January 4, 2019.

Around 68.five lakh properties had been licensed to this point for building below the PMAY (U).

"Out of these, 35.67 lakh houses are under various stages of construction of which 12.45 lakh houses have already been completed. The government is on course to sanction one crore houses well before 2020 to ensure that construction activities are completed to provide housing for all by 2022," the professional mentioned.

According to executive estimates, the full investment concerned is Rs three,56,397 crore. An quantity of Rs 33,455 crore has already been launched to states and union territories out of the licensed overall central help of Rs 1,00,275 crore.

Under Smart City Mission, 100 cities had been decided on in four rounds in keeping with an all India competition.

The ministry mentioned that since the launch of the challenge, a total of 5,151 tasks had been recognized for implementation by means of the cities value more than Rs 2 lakh crore which might be in quite a lot of phases of implementation in the 100 cities.

"If we speak about city transport, around 536 km of metro rail strains are these days operational in 10 cities -Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Jaipur, Kochi, Lucknow, Mumbai and Gurgaon.

"In 2018 (from January 2018 to until date), about 110 km of metro rail strains had been commissioned in Delhi-NCR, Hyderabad and Chennai," the professional mentioned.

In 2018, 3 new tasks with a period of about 66 km at a total cost of Rs 16,408 crore had been licensed for Bhopal, Indore and Delhi Metro extension from Noida City Centre to Noida Sector 62.

Twenty HRIDAY tasks amounting to Rs 140.14 crore had been completed in 2018 in the cities of Ajmer, Amaravati, Amritsar, Badami, Dwaraka, Puri and Varanasi.


Under AMRUT, out of the full state annual motion plan size of Rs 77,640 crore, contracts for 4,097 tasks value Rs 54,816 crore had been awarded together with 1,035 tasks value Rs 2,388 crore which were completed, the professional mentioned.


In the water provide sector, contracts for 965 tasks value Rs 29,205 crore had been awarded together with 154 tasks value Rs 1,325 crore which were completed.


The executive's building main Central Public Works Department (CPWD) additionally underwent a major digital transformation, which enabled bills of around Rs 20,000 crore consistent with yr electronically.


The e-MB Module, introduced in April 2018, is the first built-in web-based module in civil ministries to observe and track both the monetary development similar to utilisation of price range in tasks, along side similar physical development captured thru e-MB as consistent with time table of quite a lot of items of works.
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