Under PMAY-U, 41,75,214 houses have been sanctioned and 20,39,571 houses completed/delivered to urban poor

Under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Urban (PMAY-U),41,75,214 houses have been sanctioned and 20,39,571houses have been completed/delivered to the urban poor during the last two years and the current year. State/UT wise details of sanctioned and completed houses is at Annexure-I. The details of sanctioned and completed houses in the Arni Parliamentary Constituency of Tamil Nadu are at Annexure-II.

Land and colonization are State subjects. This Ministry through various programmatic interventions supplements the efforts of State / Union Territory (UT) Governments for providing houses to eligible urban beneficiaries in the country. Under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Urban [PMAY-U], identification of eligible beneficiaries and implementation of projects are done by the State / UT Governments concerned through their implementing agencies.

This information was given by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Shri Kaushal Kishore, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.