Bihar CMNitish Kumar asked rural development department (RDD) officials to ensure that all eligible poor families get apucca houseconstructed either under thePradhan Mantri Awas Yojana– Grameen (PMAY-G) or the Mukhya Mantri Grameen Awas Yojana (MMGAY).
While chairing a meeting to review the progress of the PMAY-G and the MMGAY in the state, he also asked the officials to ensure that not a single eligible beneficiary is left out from getting a pucca house under either of the two schemes.
The families which have been rendered homeless because of the anti-encroachment drive on the public lands like Aahar, pynes and ponds under the Jal-Jeevan-Haryali Abhiyan, would also be provided benefits of the either of the two housing schemes or the Mukhya Mantri Vaas-Sthal Kray Sahayata Yojana (Chief Minister Homestead Land Purchase Assistance Scheme.)
The provides assistance of Rs 60,000 per family under the Vas-Sthal Kray Yojana to buy land for building homes to those BPL families that do not have their own land.
Nitish also said that if a person has been approved fund for constructing a pucca house under the PMAY-G and she/ he does not have even a small piece of land to construct the house, such eligible families should be provided the assistance of Rs 60,000 under the Vas-Sthal Kray Yojana so that such beneficiaries can buy land for their own Home.