Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY – G) GoI, 2019-20 (Pre-Budget)

Sahithya Venkatesan , Avani Kapur
(2019)

Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY – G) is Government of India’s (GoI’s) flagship ‘Housing for All’ scheme. The scheme was launched in November 2016 and aims to provide monetary assistance for the construction of a pucca house with basic amenities to all rural houseless households and those living in dilapidated and kutcha houses. Using government data, this brief reports on trends in PMAY-G along the following parameters:
■ Allocations and cost estimates
■ Releases and expenditures
■ Beneficiary selection and target
setting
■ Target completion and physical
progress of house construction
■ Payments to Beneficiaries
Cost share and implementation: Cost estimate for the scheme from FY 2016-17 till FY 2018-19 to target 1 crore households is
`1,30,075 crore, of which the GoI share is `81,975 crore. Funds are shared between GoI and state governments in a 60:40 ratio. For the eight Northeastern states and three Himalayan states, this ratio is 90:10.

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