Lok Sabha Question No. 1513 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2025-07-29
Subject: Discrepancy under PMAY-G
Ministry: RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Asked by: Shri Sunil Kumar

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1513 ANSWERED ON 29/07/2025

## DISCREPANCY UNDER PMAY-G

## 1513. Shri Sunil Kumar:

Will the Minister of RURAL DEVELOPMENT be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government is aware that, in some places of West Champaran  district  of  Bihar,  due  to  the  mistake  of  the  data operator, the job card number of some other person has been entered in front of the name of the beneficiary in the waiting list  of  Pradhan MantriAwasYojana (PMAY) because of this the beneficiary is not able to get the amount of the AwasYojana;
- if so, whether it is true that until the Ministry of Home Affairs directs  the  State  Government  to  correct  the  waiting  list  and put  the  job  card  number  of  the  person  included  in  the  list against  his  name,  the  beneficiary  will  not  be  able  to  get  the
- (b) benefit of the AwasYojana; and
- (c) if  so,  whether  the  Ministry  of  Home  Affairs  proposes  passing such  an  order  and  sending  it  to  the  State  Government  for correction of the job card number so that the beneficiary can receive the amount of the AwasYojana?

## ANSWER

## MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (DR. CHANDRA SEKHAR PEMMASANI)

(a): In  order to achieve the objective of "Housing for All" in rural areas,  the  Ministry  of  Rural  Development  is  implementing  Pradhan MantriAwaasYojana-  Gramin  (PMAY-G)  with  effect  from  1st  April 2016  to  provide  assistance  to  eligible  rural  households  for  the construction of pucca houses with basic amenities with a cumulative target of  4.95  crore  houses  by  March  2029.  The  Union Cabinet has approved the proposal for the continuation  of  PMAY-G during FY 2024-25 to 2028-29 for construction of 2 crore additional

houses. Further, it is stated that the State/ UT is the implementing agency for PMAY-G at the ground level.

Under Pradhan MantriAwaasYojana-Gramin, it is mandatory to provide support of 90/95 person days unskilled wage employment at PMAY-G beneficiary for  construction  of  his  /her  house  in  convergence  with MGNREGS.  To  get  assistance  under  MGNREGA,  job  card  no.  of the current rates (approximately Rs. 27,000) to a beneficiary is mandatory during registration survey.

The identification of  beneficiaries under PMAY-G is based on the housing deprivation parameters and exclusion criteria prescribed under Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011. These criteria are applied on SECC 2011 database and a system generated priority list of households from the database was deliberated upon in Gram Sabha meetings. After due verification by the Gram Sabhas and completion of Appellate Process, Gram panchayat-wise Permanent Wait List (PWL) is prepared. Thereafter, Awaas+ survey was conducted during January 2018 to March 2019 to identify those beneficiaries  who,  though  are  eligible  for  inclusion  in  PWL,  but claimed  to  be  left  out  from  the  SECC  2011.  In  this  exercise,  the States/UTs  uploaded  details  of  additional  households,  which  were also subjected to Gram Sabha verification and Appellate Process.

Further, it is also informed that the Union Cabinet has approved the extension of PMAY-G for 5 more years (FY 2024-25 to 2028-29)  to  provide  assistance  for  the  construction  of  2  crore additional  rural  houses.  In  accordance  with  the  approval  of  the Union Cabinet, a new survey is also being conducted for identification  of  additional  eligible  households  by  the  States/  UTs including the State of Assam using eKYC face based authentication through the Awaas+ 2024 mobile app and with modified exclusion parameters.

During survey of left out beneficiaries from SECC-2011 data by Awasplus App 2018, some of the job cards were Auto Synchronised with Nregasoft during the registration on Awaassoft due to which it reflected as "Duplicate Job Card.". Those eligible beneficiaries who were left out in the Awaasplus App 2018 have been surveyed under Awaas plus 2024 survey. There is a online module available on the

MIS of the scheme i.e. AwaasSoft  for entry of the job cards.

(b) & (c): No. As per the scheme guidelines, the State/UT Government shall constitute  a  three-member  Appellate  Committee at  the  District  level.  The  Appellate  Committee  will  consider  the

complaints  with  the  report,  against  deletion  or  change  in  ranking and  resolve  the  same  within  a  fixed  period  of  time.  The  detailed procedure  for  hearing  by  the  Appellate  Authority  including  timely disposal, will be decided by the respective State/UT.

Monitoring  of  PMAY-G  is  done  through  real  time  capture  of progress  using  workflow  enabled  transactional  data  in  MIS  i.e. AwaasSoft.  For  process  monitoring,  inspection  is  done  by  central teams, state/district/block level officials of the state. Monitoring is also  done  by  District  Development  Coordination  and  Monitoring (DISHA) Committee headed by Members of Parliament and via Social Audit, etc. The National Level Monitoring system of Ministry of Rural Development is a third  party  monitoring  and  reporting  mechanism working  towards  regular  assessment  of  implementation  of  Rural Development Programmes/ Schemes including PMAY-G in the country.

The Guidelines provide that a grievance redressal mechanism is  to  be  set  up  at  different  levels  of  administration  viz.,  Gram Panchayat, Block, District and the State under PMAY-G. An official of  the  State  Government  is  designated  at  each  level  to  ensure disposal of grievances to the satisfaction of the complainant within a  period  of  15  days  from  the  date  of  receipt  of  the  grievance  / complaint. Any complaints received in the Ministry of Rural Development through CPGRAMS or otherwise, are forwarded to the respective State Government for redressal of the grievance as the State Government is the implementing the PMAY-G on the ground. The  officers  designated  at  each  level  for  redressal  of  grievances take necessary action and furnish the Action Taken Report to the Ministry  under  intimation  to  the  complainant  within  one  month  of receipt of the complaint from the Ministry.

In addition, the States/UTs utilize the services of Ombudsperson  under  MGNREGA  to  dispose  of  grievances  and reported incidences of irregularities under PMAY-G to expeditiously redress the grievances and to uphold the rights of the rural poor.

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