PUNE: Nearly three years into the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) for urban areas which promised “housing for all” by 2022, barely 8%, or 3 lakh of the 40.6 lakh houses targeted so far, have been constructed. The situation in the rural version of PMAY is better, but even there only 30%, or 28.8 lakh houses, have been completed against the 95.4 lakh targeted by the rural development ministry in 15 months since the plan was launched.
This emerges from data on the websites of the urban affairs and rural development ministries. The data reveals that as on March 5 this year, the ministry had considered 8,341 projects under PMAY involving 40.6 lakh houses.
But only 3.4 lakh houses have been completed, while work is in progress on 18 lakh or about 44% of the target. However, the data doesn’t reveal the stage of construction for these houses. Of those completed, about 3 lakh houses are occupied. PMAY (Urban) was launched by Modi on June 25, 2015, with the goal of building two crore houses for the poor in urban areas by 2022, coinciding with 75 years of independence.
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