Over 3 cr houses built under Pradhan Mantri Awas YojnaAs many as three crore houses have been built under the PM Awas Yojna for rural and urban areas. The scheme will provide housing for the po...
11 May, 2023, 07.56 PM IST
1.15 crore houses sanctioned under PMAY-Urban; scheme ending this month: Hardeep Singh PuriThe original demand assessment for PMAY-U was up to 1 crore houses and subsequently the state governments revised their demand assessment e...
28 Mar, 2022, 04.38 PM IST
MRG World to invest Rs 350 crore in a affordable housing project in Gurgaon“The affordable housing segment is getting a major boost with the Haryana Cabinet's approval of Amendment in Affordable Housing Policy-2013...
03 Aug, 2021, 05.12 PM IST
Steep climb ahead to achieve the target of Housing for All by 2022: ICRAThe PMAY was launched in 2015, through which the Government of India had set a target of constructing 50 million new housing units by 2022,...
12 Jul, 2021, 01.30 PM IST
MCG asks Haryana government to relax housing scheme norms, add beneficiariesIn a letter to the director-general of the urban local bodies department, the civic agency has pointed out that most villagers who had appl...
29 Jan, 2020, 06.13 PM IST
Top 35 Indian cities June-September residential sales down 2%: ReportWeighted average price across these markets also exhibited a marginal decline of 1% from a year ago. Prices dropped in 14 cities, while nin...
20 Nov, 2019, 05.48 PM IST
Centre to establish web-based 'knowledge lab' to share technologies for affordable housingAccording to the Housing and Urban Affairs (HUA) Ministry, the laboratory will act as a source of information on the matters related to aff...
12 Sep, 2018, 06.12 PM IST
Nearly 2.67 lakh more houses sanctioned for urban poor in 10 states under PMAY(U)The approval was given in a meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee of PMAY(U), which was held under the chairmanship o...
24 Jul, 2018, 08.41 PM IST
Government would complete its PMAY target much before 2022: Hardeep PuriUnion minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed Parliament regarding the progress of the flagship scheme, under which 4.5 million houses would b...
23 Mar, 2018, 01.42 PM IST
Higher budget allocation may boost housing-for-all schemeThe government had set a target of constructing 50 million new housing units by 2022, of which 30 million units are likely to be constructe...
26 Feb, 2018, 07.09 PM IST
Realty bodies ink pacts with Maharashtra to build 9 lakh affordable homes by 2022The government has been pushing affordable housing via incentives to both builders and home buyers under schemes like Pradhan Mantri Awas Y...
17 Feb, 2018, 11.18 AM IST
Yogi government presents supplementary budget in UP AssemblyState Finance Minister presented the supplementary budget, seeking a provision of Rs 1,215 crore for constructing toilets under the Swachh ...
18 Dec, 2017, 10.14 PM IST
PM Modi launches series of programmes on BR Ambedkar's anniversaryThe prime minister formally launched the merchant interface of the Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM) mobile application.
14 Apr, 2017, 01.06 PM IST
India Ratings cuts growth outlook for cement on demonetisation impactThe rating agency maintained a 'stable' outlook on Indian cement manufacturers for the next financial year, citing expected stable demand o...
28 Feb, 2017, 06.37 PM IST
Placards identify burqa-clad woman for Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna schemePMAY scheme was started last year for people in rural areas who did not have pucca houses. Scheme came with a rider that the owner of the h...
26 Feb, 2017, 08.58 AM IST
Budget proposals, cheap loans to make affordable housing a realityBudget 2017 offered infrastructure status to the business, supplementing earlier state proposals to provide interest subvention.
07 Feb, 2017, 10.33 AM IST
Experts hail infrastructure status to affordable housingFM Arun Jaitley has also announced new credit-linked subsidy scheme for middle income group with allocation of Rs 1,000 crore in the Union ...
01 Feb, 2017, 03.45 PM IST