NDA 'betters' UPA's 10-year record in sanctioning houses for poor

NEW DELHI: The NDA government on Tuesday created a record of sanctioning nearly 13.47 lakh houses for the poor in the past oneand-a-half years, which is more than what the UPA had approved during its two consecutive terms under two different schemes.

According to housing ministry officials, 13,43,326 houses were sanctioned for the poor during UPA-I and II under JNNURM and Rajiv Awas Yojna. While central assistance of only Rs 17,405 crore was committed during the previous 10 years, till Tues day the NDA government approved central aid of Rs 21,337 crore, officials added.

Sources in UP government for the first time submitted proposals for 11,286 houses for the urban poor under the Prime Minister Awas Yojna after housing minister M Venkaiah Naidu wrote to CM Akhilesh Yadav. Delhi is the only state that has not yet sent any proposal to the ministry under PMAY. One of the key agendas of BJP during the last Lok Sabha poll was to provide houses to all by 2022.