Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in Grih Pravesham and inaugurate 1.75 lakh houses built under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) in the state of Madhya Pradesh on 12 September 2020. All of these houses have been built during the COVID-19 pandemic period.
So far 1.14 crore houses have already been built across the country under the programme. In Madhya Pradesh, 17 lakh poor households have also benefited from this scheme till now.
These are households of poor people who either had no house or lived in dilapidated makeshift homes.
Under PMAY-G, each beneficiary is given 100 percent grant of Rs 1.20 lakh with a sharing ratio of 60:40 between the Centre and the state. Funds for all these houses constructed under PMAY-G are given by way of four installments directly into the bank account of the beneficiary after verification of various stages of construction through Geotagged photographs.
The scheme envisages to construct 2.95 crore houses by 2022.
In addition to the unit assistance, the beneficiaries are provided support of unskilled labour wages for 90/95 person days under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) and assistance of Rs 12,000 for construction of toilets through Swachh Bharat Mission- Gramin, MGNREGS or any other dedicated source of funding.
The Madhya Pradesh government, through its Samridh Paryavas Abhiyaan, has dovetailed 17 other schemes like social security, pension scheme, ration card, Prime Minister Kaushal Vikas Yojana, National Rural Livelihood Mission, etc to provide additional benefits.