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New Delhi:With just five months left for the completion of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) target, a large number of states and Union Territories are lagging behind in achieving the target as just 35 percent of sanctioned houses completed between April and June...
A flagship scheme of the Modi government, the PMAY-G was launched in April 2016 with a target to construct 2.95 crore pucca houses with basic amenities for the underprivileged sections in rural areas by 31 March, 2024...
Performance of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Haryana, Kerala, Maharashtra and Rajasthan was rated very good as they met 90 percent or above of target set for the first quarter of the financial year 2023-24 (April-June), according to a report by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI)...
As per the report released last week, 14.18 lakh houses were to be constructed in states and union territories between April and June, but just 4.97 lakh (just 35 percent of the quarterly target) were done..
Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir are among states/UTs reporting less than 20 percent of the set target for April-June period..
