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Pradhan PMAY intends to provide Under PMAY (Urban), as on 18 January,
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Mantri housing for all in urban and 2021, 109.2 lakh houses have been sanctioned
Awaas rural areas by 2022. out of which 70.4 lakh houses have been
Yojana grounded for construction of which 41.3 lakh
(PMAY) have been built to the beneficiaries under
PMAY(U) since inception of the scheme in
June, 2015.
The target number of houses for construction
under PMAY (Gramin) is 2.95 crore in two phases
i.e. 1.00 crore in Phase I (2016-17 to 2018-19)
and 1.95 crore in Phase II (2019-20 to 2021-22).
Since 2014-15, construction of approx. 1.94 crore
rural houses have been completed, out of which
1.22 crore houses have been constructed under
the revamped scheme of PMAY-G and 0.72 crore
under erstwhile Indira Awaas Yojana scheme.
NRDWP, The objectives of the NRDWP At the time of roll out of the scheme in August
now Jal was to provide safe and 2019, about 3.23 crore (17 per cent) households
Jeevan adequate water for drinking, out of total 18.93 crore rural households had tap
Mission cooking and other domestic water supply. Remaining 15.70 crore (83 per
(JJM) needs to every rural person on cent) rural households were to be provided with
a sustainable basis. Goal of functional tap water connections by 2024. Upto
JJM is to provide functional 16 January, 2021, so far about 3.2 crore of rural
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tap water connection (FTWC) households have been provided with FTWC
every rural household by since the launch of the Mission. Keeping with
2024 and get assured supply ‘no one is left out’ principle, 18 districts in the
of potable piped water at a country spread across Gujarat (5), Telangana (5),
service level of 55 litres per Himachal Pradesh (1), Jammu & Kashmir (2),
capita per day (lpcd) regularly Goa (2) and Punjab (3) have become ‘Har Ghar
on long-term basis by ensuring Jal districts’whereas 57,935 villages have also
functionality of the tap water become ‘Har Ghar Jal Gaon’.
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Sahaj Bijli Government launched All States have declared electrification of all
Har Ghar Saubhagya Yojana in October, households on Saubhagya portal, except 18,734
Yojana – 2017 with the objective to households in Left Wing Extremists (LWE)
Saubhagya achieve universal household affected areas of Chhattisgarh as on 31.03.2019.
electrification by providing Electricity connections to 262.84 lakh
electricity connections to households have been released from 11.10.2017
all willing un-electrified to 31.03.2019. Subsequently, seven States
households in rural areas and reported that 19.09 lakh un-electrified households
all willing poor households in identified before 31.03.2019, which were earlier
urban areas in the country, by un-willing but have expressed willingness to get
March, 2019. electricity connection. States have been asked to
electrify these households under Saubhagya.