Yesterday, the government announced having given approval for the construction of one crore houses with the financial implication of Rs 81,975 crore for the period 2016-17 to 2018-19. This move is in alignment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Housing for All’ vision by the year 2022. In response to a question asked in the Lok Sabha, the Minister of State for Rural Development Ram Kripal Yadav said that there are around four crore rural households facing house deprivation according to the provisional figures of Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011.
According to the Press Information Bureau(PIB), 2.95 crore more houses need to be constructed with an anticipated variation of ± 10 per cent to achieve the objective by 2022. This estimate also accounts the houses that were constructed under the Indira Aawas Yojana (IAY) and state-sponsored housing schemes since 2011.
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Comprehensive online monitoring will also be conducted through the MIS-AwaasSoft scheme. A mobile app, AwaasApp, will help with the inspection and geo-tagging of houses to reduce any delay. A programme involving training, assessment, and certification will also help increase the number of trained rural masons. Programme Management Unit (PMUs) will be set up at the state and sub-state level to review progress on a daily basis, provide requisite technical support and facilitation, and plug gaps in implementation using administrative funds available under the scheme.