Even as the State Government claimed to have constructed over 26 lakh houses in rural areas under different schemes in the last six years, it has to convert another 12 lakh kutcha houses of poor families to pucca structures to achieve the ‘housing for all’ target by 2022. After launching the re-structured rural housing scheme Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Gramin (PMAY-G) in November 2016, the State had a target to complete 24.23 lakh houses by 2022.

The target was fixed after registration of beneficiaries including geo-tagging and verification of their accounts. Construction began in 2017-18. Status of the rural housing progress in the Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD) dashboard states that Odisha has completed construction of 12,54,391 houses as on date against a target of 24,23,012.

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