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What is the news?
The Union Cabinet has approved the continuation of Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) beyond March 2021 and till March 2024. This will ensure that the remaining households with the overall target of 2.95 crore gets completed.
Further, the phasing out of Extra Budgetary resources (EBR) and provision of entire scheme funding through gross budgetary support (GBS) shall also be decided in consultation with the ministry of finance.
What is PMAY-G?
Some Key Features of the scheme:
– Provision of assistance for construction of toilets through SBM-G, MGNREGA or any other dedicated source of funding.
– Facilitating willing beneficiaries to avail loan from Financial Institutions for an amount of up to Rs 70,000.
– Earmarking for focus groups – 60% of the funds are earmarked for SC/ST and 15% for minorities. As far as possible, 5% of beneficiaries are to be from persons with benchmark disabilities.
– The progress of construction of houses at different stages of construction is monitored through geo-tagged photographs uploaded on AwaasSoft.
| AWAASSoft is a local language enabled workflow based transaction level Management Information System (MIS) designed to enable e-governance of Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY). The System has been prepared and deployed by NIC in collaboration with Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD). |
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Source: This post is based on the article “Cabinet approves continuation of Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) beyond March 2021 till March 2024” published in PIB on 8th Dec 2021.
