Union Minister of Agriculture, Farmers Welfare and Rural Development, Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Gramin Plus (+), 13 lakh 29 thousand 678 houses have been approved for Maharashtra under the financial year 2024-25.
“Its survey work has been completed and is now under its final list, these additional houses will be allotted in Maharashtra. The government is working with the commitment that no person should be deprived of a pucca house. In Maharashtra, a target has been set to build a total of 19 lakh 66 thousand 767 houses in the financial year 2024-25. The total estimated expenditure for this will be ₹29,501 crore” he said.
Chouhan participated in the event of Kisan Samman Diwas and Farmers and Rural Development Beneficiaries Conference organised at Council of Agricultural Research – Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra on the occasion of National Farmers Day on Monday.
“It is hoped that the newly formed State government will be able to achieve these targets within the stipulated time. Maharashtra has become the first State in the country which has been given the target of constructing the maximum number of houses” he said.
Minister said that the government is making all-out efforts to provide the benefits of this scheme to those people who have not got the opportunity to join the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana or whose name is not in the survey list.
He said that earlier people who had two wheelers and telephones were deprived of this scheme but now under the Awas Plus (+) scheme, all such people will benefit from a house. According to the new survey, people in the monthly income group of 15 thousand and those with more than five acres of unirrigated land will also be able to benefit from this scheme.