Shivraj Singh Chouhan to allocate 8,21,000 more houses for Madhya Pradesh under PMAY-G on Wednesday

Rural development minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will allocate on Wednesday about 8,21,000 more houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana - Gramin (PMAY-G) for beneficiaries in Madhya Pradesh.

About Rs 3,726 crore in central assistance has been released to the state so far this fiscal to ensure swift disbursement of the first installment to beneficiaries to start house construction, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

“Upon timely utilisation, an additional Rs 4,934 crore may be released within the fiscal year,” it added.



Earlier this month, Chouhan had also approved the construction of 3,30,000 more houses under the scheme in Chhattisgarh.

In August last year, the cabinet had approved Rs 3.06 lakh crore to build 30 million houses across the country over five years, 20 million of which would be built under the PMAY-G.

This is over and above the 29.5 million rural houses that the government is targeting to complete under the scheme this fiscal since its inception in 2016. Against these earlier commitments, about 26.9 million houses have been built so far.


Since 2016, the construction of 32.3 million houses has been sanctioned under the PMAY-G, which includes both the earlier and the current commitments.

Since the scheme’s launch, a total of Rs 2.37 lakh crore has been disbursed to beneficiaries across the nation, the ministry said.

As for Madhya Pradesh, of the 4.15 million houses sanctioned since 2016, about 3.68 million have been built, it added.