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New Delhi: In the revamped Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban PMAY-U 2.0 the Modi government has done away with the slum redevelopment component, which had been mandatory under the scheme to provide housing to slum dwellers in cities...
Under PMAY-U 2.0, slum dwellers or families belonging to economically weaker sections (EWS) can now construct houses on vacant land parcels, either owned by them or provided by the states and Union Territories...
The provision is among the three options given in the revamped scheme approved by the Union Cabinet om 9 August to provide affordable housing to the urban poor living in slum clusters in cities...
While states such as Odisha had been giving land rights to slum dwellers for houses, PMAY-U 2.0 has now made a provision under which slum dwellers can construct houses if they have land titles...
We found that in many states such as Odisha, slum dwellers constructed houses under the BLC vertical after the state governments gave them land rights, said another senior official in the know-how of things...
