Our Correspondent
Kohima | April 6
The Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana–Gramin (PMAY-G) is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme aimed at providing housing to the people living in the rural areas.
The programme was earlier known as Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) which was implemented since 1st January 1996.
But due to its limited scope of coverage, there still exist a huge gap in the rural housing scenario, according to Annual Administrative Report 2021-22 of Rural Development department, Nagaland, tabled at the recently concluded 11th session of 13th Nagaland Legislative Assembly (NLA) here.
The report stated that in order to address the gap in the rural housing and in view of the Governments’ commitment to provide “Housing For All” by 2022, the scheme of IAY has been restructured into (PMAY-G i.e. 1st April 2016.
The scheme is funded on the cost-sharing ratio of 90:10 between the Government of India and the state government.
The reported stated that the objective of the programme aims to provide a pucca house with basic amenities to all houseless households and households living in kutcha and dilapidated house by 2022.
The scheme has however been extended to be continued till 2024.
The immediate objective is to cover 2.00 crore households living in Kutcha house/dilapidated houses in three years from 2016-17 to 2018-19 and ensure construction of quality houses, using materials, designs and masons specially trained in quality workmanship.
For house to become homes, adequate care for adopting a habitat approach through convergence is proposed by providing permanent shelter so that migration to urban areas is expected to be reduced substantially.
The report stated that the department aims to implement the programme through the Village Development Board (VDBs) by providing durable shelter in the rural areas.
The execution of the beneficiaries will be done by the Gram Sabhas using SECC-2011 data.
Apart from SECC beneficiaries, addition of beneficiaries was made using AwaasApp.
The constriction of the house is done by the beneficiaries themselves.
Under convergence, the beneficiary can avail wage of 95 mandays from MGNREGA for construction of house.
Under the scheme, 1.7% administrative cost has been earmarked for the states for the purpose of monitoring, technical support and maintenance of MIS for PMAY (G) houses etc.
During 2021-22, the Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India, have set a target of 4933 house to be constructed in the state.
However, the state is currently implementing target of 2019-20. The state has completed construction of 4239 houses, which is target of 2016-17, the report stated.
