Rural Development Secretary, Dr Manish Ranjan has given instructions to all Deputy Development Commissioners (DDCs) to give 100 per cent approval of pending houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana -Rural (PMAY-R) 2016-2021 and to take those houses which are not completed on remand as per rules. Apart from this, the Secretary has asked to give 100 per cent approval of pending houses under the housing plus.
In Jharkhand, on January 10 and January 11, PMAY-R is a workshop of the states of the East region, before this, efforts are being made to get all the pending houses approved during this period . The Secretary has directed to make timely payment of the first installment and second installment to the beneficiaries of PM Awas Yojana before this period, in order to reflect that better work is being done in PMAY in the State. The completion of the house is shown as complete in AwassApp, in which the beneficiaries have been asked to pay the pending third installment, he added.
Ranjan said that under PMAY-R and Awas Plus in Jharkhand, new houses including pending houses have to be completed within 100 days. He said that for this, the district level senior officer nominated for the blocks and asked to visit the blocks continuously and review the progress of this scheme so that the beneficiaries could get their house as early as possible.