Lok Sabha Question No. 437 (STARRED), answered on 2025-04-01
Subject: PMAY-G Funds for West Bengal
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Kalipada Saren Kherwal

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 437 ANSWERED ON 01/04/2025

## PMAY-G FUNDS FOR WEST BENGAL

- *437. SHRI KALIPADA SAREN KHERWAL:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the funds of Pradhan MantriAwasYojana-Gramin (PMAY-G)  for  West  Bengal  are  pending  with  the  Government; and
- (b) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

ANSWER MINISTER OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (SHRI SHIVRAJ SINGH CHOUHAN)

- (a) & (b):       A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

STATEMENT IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) & (b) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 437 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.04.2025 REGARDING 'PMAY-G Funds for West Bengal'

(a) & (b): Under the  Pradhan  MantriAwaasYojana-  Gramin (PMAYG), overall the State of West Bengal has been allocated a target of 45,69,423 houses out of which the State has sanctioned all houses, released 1st instalment of assistance to 34,65,970 beneficiaries and 34,19,213  houses  have  been  completed  and  11,50,210  houses  are yet to be completed, as of 26.03.2025.

During  Financial  Year  (FY)  2021-22,  the  Ministry  of  Rural Development had received complaints from the Members of Parliament,  Members  of  State  Legislative  Assembly  (West  Bengal) and other stakeholders with serious allegations of re-naming of the scheme name as Bangla AwaasYojana in the State and also grant of assistance to ineligible households. These complaints were verified through  inspection  by  the  National  Level  Monitoring  (NLM)  teams. The  complaints  were  found  to  be  true  in  most  of  the  cases. Thereafter,  the  State  Government  submitted  compliances  on  the observations of the NLM teams and complaints of the Members of Parliament and Members of Legislative Assembly. The Action Taken Report  (ATR)  submitted  by  the  State  Government  during  August, 2022  was  accepted.  The  State  Government  had  also  agreed  that since  the  'Name'  and  'Logo'  are  part  of  the  core  features  of  the Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSSs), the official 'Name' and 'Logo' of  PMAY-G  will  be  used  and  displayed  in  the  Citizen  and  Public Information  Board  regularly.  The  State  Government  also  issued instructions to the District Magistrates for proper implementation of the PMAY-G with official name and 'logo' of the scheme.

The  compliances  submitted  by  the  State  Government  were accepted  and  target  of  11,36,488  houses  from  finalised  Awaas+ 2018 survey list was allocated to the State during the FY 2022-23

vide D.O. letter dated 24.11.2022.

The Ministry has already released Rs 25,798 crore as Central share to the State since 2016-17 till 2021-22 for implementation of the PMAY-G.

However, post allocation of target to the state in November, 2022, complaints regarding irregularities in implementation of PMAY-G  were  received.  These  complaints  were  verified  through Senior Officers Team and National Level Monitoring (NLM) Teams. No Central share of funds have been released to the State of West Bengal  under  the  PMAY-G  with  the  approval  of  the  competent

authority in the Ministry during FY 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 (till date)  for  targets  of  FY  2022-23  from  the  finalized  Awaas+  2018 survey  lists  due  to  non  submission  of  satisfactory  Action  Taken Reports  (ATR)  on  the  observations  of  the  NLM  teams  and  Senior Officers'  Teams  of  the  Ministry  of  Rural  Development.  The  ATRs have been received from the state and is under examination. State of West Bengal till 31.03.2024 to be released during FY 2024-

The  balance  liability  of  Central  share  under  PMAY-G  for  the 25 is Rs. 7,888.67 crore.

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