Lok Sabha Question No. 5267 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2019-07-25
Subject: Study on Shortage of Houses
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Riti Pathak

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 5267 TO BE ANSWERED ON JULY 25, 2019 STUDY ON SHORTAGE OF HOUSES

No. 5267 SHRIMATI RITI PATHAK:

Will the Minister of HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS be pleased to state:

- (a) whether in view of the present demand and supply of houses in the country, the Government has conducted any study to find out  shortage  of  houses,  particularly  houses  for  LIG  and  MIG categories in the country;
- (b)
- if so, the details and the outcome thereof, State/UT-wise;
- (c) whether the Government has prepared any action plan in this regard; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI HARDEEP SINGH PURI)

- (a) & (b): The  erstwhile  Ministry  of  Housing  and  Urban  Poverty Alleviation  [now  Ministry  of  Housing  &  Urban  Affairs  (MoHUA)] constituted  a  Technical  Group  (TG-12)  on  estimation  of  urban housing shortage of the country for the 12 th  Five Year Plan (201217).

As per report of this Committee,  the  total housing  shortage estimated at the beginning of 12 th  Plan Period i.e. in 2012, was 18.78 million;  out  of  this  10.55  million  was  in  Economically  Weaker Section (EWS) Category, 7.41 million was in Lower Income Group

(LIG)  and  the  rest  of  0.82  million  was  in  the  Middle  Income  Group and above category.  State/Union Territory (UT)-wise details are at Annexure.

Further,  States/UTs  have undertaken demand survey for assessing actual  demand  of  housing  under  Pradhan  Mantri  Awas  Yojana (Urban)  [PMAY(U)].    The  validated  demand  reported  by  States/UTs so far is around 112 Lakh.

(c) & (d): MoHUA  is  implementing  the  PMAY(U)  since  25.06.2015 for  addressing the housing requirement of the people belonging to EWS,  LIG  and  MIG  categories  in  urban  areas.    Total  83,68,861 houses have so far been sanctioned under the Scheme; out of this, 49,54,357 are at various stages of construction and 26,13,799 are completed.

In  order  to  implement  the  scheme  in  a  time  bound  manner,  the Ministry has taken the following steps:

- All States/UTs have been requested to get project proposals of their  remaining  demand  of  houses  sanctioned  by  December, 2019.
- A National Urban Housing Fund (NUHF) has been created for providing extra budgetary resources for the PMAY(U).
- Global  Housing  Technology  Challenge-India  (GHTC-India)  was held in March-2019 to identify globally best available alternate technologies  and  six  of  them  are  being  selected  for  Light House  Projects  (LHPs)  as  live  laboratories  in  six  different
- States.
- Schedule  of  Rates  (SoRs)  have  been  issued  for  16  alternate technologies  available  within  the  country  and  nearly  13  lakh houses are being constructed using these technologies.
- Ministry  regularly  monitors  progress  of  the  Mission  through
- periodic review meetings, video-conferences and field visits.

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## State-wise details of Housing Shortage estimated by the TG-12

| State Name         |   Housing shortage (in million) |
|--------------------|---------------------------------|
| Andaman & Nicobar  |                            0    |
| Andhra Pradesh*    |                            1.27 |
| Arunachal Pradesh  |                            0.03 |
| Assam              |                            0.28 |
| Bihar              |                            1.19 |
| Chandigarh         |                            0.02 |
| Chhattisgarh       |                            0.35 |
| Dadra Nagar Haveli |                            0.05 |
| Daman & Diu        |                            0.01 |
| Delhi              |                            0.49 |
| Goa                |                            0.06 |
| Gujarat            |                            0.99 |
| Haryana            |                            0.42 |
| Himachal Pradesh   |                            0.04 |
| Jammu & Kashmir    |                            0.13 |
| Jharkhand          |                            0.63 |
| Karnataka          |                            1.02 |
| Kerala             |                            0.54 |
| Lakshadweep        |                            0.01 |
| Madhya Pradesh     |                            1.1  |
| Maharashtra        |                            1.94 |
| Manipur            |                            0.08 |
| Meghalaya          |                            0.03 |
| Mizoram            |                            0.02 |
| Nagaland           |                            0.21 |
| Orissa             |                            0.41 |
| Puducherry         |                            0.07 |
| Punjab             |                            0.39 |
| Rajasthan          |                            1.15 |
| Sikkim             |                            0.01 |
| Tamil Nadu         |                            1.25 |
| Tripura            |                            0.03 |
| Uttar Pradesh      |                            3.07 |
| Uttarakhand        |                            0.16 |
| West Bengal        |                            1.33 |
| All India          |                           18.78 |