Lok Sabha Question No. 49 (STARRED), answered on 2025-02-06
Subject: Housing for All  Mission
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri Anand Bhadauria

## MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 49

## TO BE ANSWERED ON FEBRUARY 06, 2025

## HOUSING FOR ALL MISSION

## NO. 49.      SHRI ANAND BHADAURIA:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  has  any  recent  data  regarding  homeless people in urban areas in the country;
- (b)
- if so, the details thereof, State-wise;
- (c) if  not,  the  basis  of  formulating  PMAY  2.0  'Housing  for  All'  Mission
- w.e.f. 1st September, 2024; and
- (d) the number of houses targeted to be constructed for urban homeless people during the years 2024-25 and 2025-26 along with the achievements made thereon during the current financial year till 31st January, 2025, State and year-wise?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS (SHRI MANOHAR LAL)

- (a) to (d): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT  REFERRED  IN  REPLY  TO  LOK  SABHA  STARRED  QUESTION NO. 49* FOR 06.02.2025 REGARDING HOUSING FOR ALL MISSION

- (a) &  (b):  'Land'  and  'Colonisation'  are  State  subjects  and  data  of homeless  people  living in cities are to be maintained  by the concerned  States/Union  Territories  (UTs).  Cities  conduct  their  own third party survey of homeless under Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana National Urban Livelihoods Mission (DAY-NULM) Scheme. Census of India conducts enumeration of population in the country on decadal basis including homeless people. As per Census of India 2011, a total of 9,38,348 people were homeless in urban areas of the country.
- (c)   &  (d):  Based  on  the  learning  from  the  experiences  of  9  years implementation  of  Pradhan  Mantri  Awas  Yojana  -  Urban  (PMAY-U), Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has revamped the scheme and launched  PMAY-U  2.0  'Housing  for  All'  Mission  with  effect  from 01.09.2024 for implementation in urban areas across the country to construct,  purchase  and  rent  a  house  by  1  crore  additional  eligible beneficiaries at affordable cost through four verticals i.e., Beneficiary Led  Construction  (BLC),  Affordable  Housing  in  Partnership  (AHP), Affordable Rental Housing (ARH) and Interest Subsidy Scheme (ISS).

PMAY-U 2.0 is a demand driven scheme.  Therefore, no specific target has  been  fixed  for  the  years  2024-25  and  2025-2026.  As  per  the scheme guidelines, selection of beneficiaries, formulation of projects and execution is done by States/UTs. After demand assessment and verification, States/UTs prepare project proposals and after approval of State Level Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (SLSMC), these are  submitted  to  the  Ministry  for  sanctioning  of  admissible  Central Assistance by Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC). Moreover, in-principle approval of more than 6 lakh houses have been provided  to  29  States/UTs  which  have  signed  MoA  to  implement PMAY-U 2.0 for eligible beneficiaries including homeless. Additionally, the Government  also  supported Shelter for Urban Homeless (SUH) under DAY -NULM to ensure availability and access of the urban homeless population to permanent shelters including the basic infrastructure facilities like water supply, sanitation, safety and security.

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