Ahead of MCD elections on December 4, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Wednesday said that the housing scheme under 'Jahan Jhuggi Wahan Makaan' will benefit around 10 lakh people in Delhi.

Jammu (Jammu and Kashmir) [India], June 11 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale on Saturday said that the gates of development have been opened for Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.

New Delhi Mar 28 PTI The objective of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna-Urban and the dream of the prime minister enshrined in it will stand fulfilled within the next 18 months Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in the Rajya Sabha on Monday Replying to supplementary questions of members the minister said the government based on the assessment demands provided by states has sanctioned 115 crore houses under PMAY-U which ends in March 2022 and various projects underway will be completed in the next 18 months or so Replying to a specific question he said It is not under consideration to review this continuation of the credit-linked subsidy scheme beyond March 31 2022 PMAY-U was conceived in June 2015 and the demand for houses has gone well beyond the initial projection of one crore The number is now 115 crore and in the remaining three days of this fiscal it will go up further the minister said It was precisely in pursuance of the prime ministers dream that by March 2022 every Indian has a pukka roof on hisher head and have a kitchen shauchalay toilet and the title of the house would be in the name of the lady of the house either singly or co-jointly he said In pursuance of this all states were asked to give the Centre a demand assessment in June 2015 based on which one crore houses will have to be built he said With that the entire objective of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna-Urban would have been completed Now there is affordable housing taking place in private sector Some states are sending us more demand With this the dream of the prime minister enshrined in the PMAY-U will stand fulfilled Puri told Parliament adding that one the projects are sanctioned they are completed within a period of 18 months The minister said the proposal started in June 2015 and in spite of the pandemic which lasted two years the scheme will be completed in near future Normally there is a period of 18 months when the projects are completed after sanction I would be happy to share with you the individual complete timelines of projects under the scheme the minister said He was replying to a specific question by TMCs Derek OBrien on when will every Indian have a house as Prime minister Narendra Modi had stated in 2018 in Lucknow Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna- Urban the central government has sanctioned under four separate verticals a total of 115 crore houses out of which 70 lakh houses have been grounded and close to 46 lakh have been handed over to the beneficiaries the minister also said It is the state government which collects the demand requirements from its citizens and sends them to the central government after consolidating them he said The original demand assessment for PMAY-U was up to 1 crore houses and subsequently the state governments revised their demand assessment estimates to 112 crore houses Now it is at 115 crore The scheme has more or less matured and completed their process and any project sanctioned so far the government will ensure that they are completed he said PTI SKC SMN