Lok Sabha Question No. 2803 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2024-12-12
Subject: Process of Identifying Beneficiaries under PMAY-U
Ministry: HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
Asked by: Shri Mani A

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

## MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2803 TO BE ANSWERED ON DECEMBER 12, 2024 PROCESS OF IDENTIFYING BENEFICIARIES UNDER PMAY-U

NO.2803.       SHRI MANI A:

Will the Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs be pleased to state:

- (a) the process for identifying beneficiaries along with the manner in which  the  Government  ensure  that  eligible  individuals  would  receive benefits under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Urban (PMAY-U);
- (b) the details of the specific measures taken/being taken to ensure that Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes  (ST)  and  women-headed  households  would  get  optimum  benefit from PMAY-U;
- (c) the details of the houses sanctioned, constructed and handed over to the beneficiaries under PMAY-U, State/UT-wise;
- (d) the key challenges faced in the implementation of PMAY-U, particularly in metropolitan cities; and
- (e) the plans to simplify administrative processes to speed up the construction and allocation of houses under PMAY-U and if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

MINISTRY OF HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

## THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE (SHRI TOKHAN SAHU)

(a)to(e) 'Land' and 'Colonization' are State subjects. Schemes related to housing  in  their  respective  areas  are  implemented  by  States/  Union Territories (UTs). However, Government of India supplements the efforts of  States/  UTs  by  providing  Central  assistance  under  Pradhan  Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) since June,2015 to provide pucca houses with basic amenities to all eligible urban beneficiaries especially belonging to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS).

Identification of eligible beneficiaries and implementation of projects  under  PMAY-U  is  the  responsibility  of  concerned  State/UT Governments.  For  transparent  selection  of  beneficiaries,  scrutiny  of beneficiary list is done at multiple levels in the States/UTs for approval. The PMAY-U proposals are approved by the State Level Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (SLSMC) headed by the Chief Secretary of States/UTs  for  further  sanctioning  of  Central  Assistance  by  Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee (CSMC).

The  scheme  has  inbuilt provisions like Aadhaar  seeding and validation of beneficiaries, transfer of assistance through Direct Benefit Transfer  (DBT)/  Expenditure-Advance-Transfer  (EAT)  module  of  Public Financial  Management  System  (PFMS),  Geotagging  of  houses,  etc., integrated  into  robust  PMAY-U  MIS  system  for  ensuring  transparency, efficiency and accountability in the system to ensure that benefits reach to the genuine beneficiaries.

As  per  scheme  guidelines  preference  is  to  be  given  to  manual scavengers,  women  (with  overriding  preference  to  widows),  persons belonging to scheduled castes/ scheduled tribes/ other backward classes, minorities, persons with disabilities and transgender. The details of the houses sanctioned, constructed and handed over to beneficiaries under PMAY-U, State/UT-wise are at Annexure.

Under PMAY-U, the State/UT Governments formulate project proposals and submit them in a phased manner, based on the resource available  with  States/UTs,  to  Union  Government  for  seeking  admissible central  assistance.  The  completion  timeline  for  houses  depends  on various factors like availability of land, statutory compliances for start of construction,  arrangement  of  funds  by  beneficiaries,  tendering  process, provision of basic infrastructure at the site, viz., water supply, sewerage, approach roads, etc.

Further,  based  on  the  learning  from  the  experiences  of  PMAY-U, MoHUA  has  launched  PMAY-U  2.0  'Housing  for  All'  Mission  with  effect from 01.09.2024 for assisting one crore households to construct, purchase and rent a house at affordable cost in urban areas across the country  through  four  verticals  i.e.,  Beneficiary  Led  Construction  (BLC), Affordable Housing in Partnership (AHP), Affordable Rental Housing (ARH) and  Interest  Subsidy  Scheme  (ISS).  As  on  date,  29  States/UTs  have signed Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to implement PMAY-U 2.0 as per scheme guidelines launched on 17.09.2024 and available at https://pmayurban.gov.in/uploads/ guidelines/Operational-Guidelines-of-PMAY-U-2.pdf.

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## State/UT-wise details of houses sanctioned, grounded and completed/ delivered to the beneficiaries under PMAY-U since inception

| Sr. No.                     | State/ UT               | Houses Sanctioned (Nos) Houses Grounded (Nos)   | Houses Completed/ Delivered (Nos)   |
|-----------------------------|-------------------------|-------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------|
|                             | Pradesh 21,37,028       | 19,46,394                                       | 10,03,220                           |
| 1 Andhra 2 Bihar            | 3,14,477                | 3,08,391                                        | 1,61,011                            |
| 3 Chhattisgarh              | 3,02,663                | 2,85,324                                        | 2,46,352                            |
| 4 Goa                       | 3,146                   | 3,146                                           | 3,145                               |
| 5 Gujarat                   | 10,05,204               | 9,79,715                                        | 9,32,396                            |
| 6 Haryana                   | 1,15,034                | 90,422                                          | 69,011                              |
| 7 Himachal Pradesh          | 12,758                  | 12,640                                          | 10,890                              |
| 8 Jharkhand                 | 2,29,156                | 2,13,900                                        | 1,49,955                            |
| 9 Karnataka                 | 6,38,121                | 5,72,472                                        | 3,76,314                            |
| 10 Kerala                   | 1,67,322                | 1,53,353                                        | 1,26,806                            |
| States Madhya Pradesh       | 9,61,147                | 9,45,013                                        | 8,34,789                            |
| 11 12 Maharashtra           | 13,64,923               | 10,94,519                                       | 8,70,689                            |
| Odisha                      | 2,03,380                | 1,85,273                                        | 1,53,960                            |
| 13 14 Punjab                | 1,32,235                | 1,18,331                                        | 90,985                              |
| 15 Rajasthan                | 3,19,877                | 2,96,389                                        | 2,08,036                            |
| 16 Tamil Nadu               | 6,80,347                | 6,64,731                                        | 5,87,352                            |
| 17 Telangana                | 2,50,084                | 2,34,737                                        | 2,23,318                            |
| 18 Uttar                    | 17,76,823               | 17,58,368                                       | 16,46,083                           |
| Pradesh 19 Uttarakhand      | 64,391                  | 62,404                                          | 38,090                              |
| West Bengal                 | 6,68,953                | 6,07,277                                        | 4,18,551                            |
| 20 Sub- total (States) :-   | 1,13,47,069             | 1,05,32,799                                     | 81,50,953                           |
| 21                          | Arunachal Pradesh 8,499 | 8,070                                           | 8,063                               |
| States 22 Assam             | 1,76,643                | 1,69,036                                        | 1,14,632                            |
| 23                          | 56,037                  | 50,430                                          | 14,964                              |
| Manipur 24                  | 4,758                   | 4,006                                           | 1,789                               |
| East Meghalaya 25 Mizoram   | 39,605                  | 39,076                                          | 19,353                              |
| 26 Nagaland                 | 31,860                  | 31,055                                          | 26,113                              |
| North 27 Sikkim             | 316                     | 316                                             | 202                                 |
| 28 Tripura                  | 92,854                  | 87,300                                          | 75,112                              |
| Sub- total (N.E. States) :- | 4,10,572                | 3,89,289                                        | 2,60,228                            |
|                             | 376                     | 376                                             | 47                                  |
| 29 A&N Island 30 Chandigarh | 1,256                   | 1,256                                           | 1,256                               |
| Territories 31 DNH & DD     | 9,947                   | 9,947                                           | 9,230                               |
| 32 Delhi                    | 29,976                  | 29,976                                          | 29,976                              |
| 33 J&K                      | 47,040                  | 41,937                                          | 27,660                              |
| Ladakh                      | 1,307                   | 991                                             | 876                                 |
| Union 34 35 Lakshadweep     | -                       | -                                               | -                                   |
| 36 Puducherry total (UT) :- | 15,995                  | 15,923                                          | 10,481                              |
| Sub-                        | 1,05,897                | 1,00,406                                        | 79,526                              |

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