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The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs MoHUA organised an online event on here today to commemorate 6 years of the three transformative Urban Missions vis. Smart Cities Mission SCM Atal Mission for Urban Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation AMRUT and Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban PMAY-U which were launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 25th June 2015. The Anniversary event highlighted some of the important initiatives being implemented under Smart Cities Mission. The event was presided by Shri Hardeep S. Puri Minister of State Independent Charge Housing and Urban Affairs and was attended by key urban stakeholders from Central and State Governments including Principal Secretaries of StatesUTs Municipal Commissioners of Cities and MDsCEOs of Smart Cities. The date also marked the 45 years of establishment of National Institute of Urban Affairs an autonomous body of MoHUA tasked to bridge the gap between research and practice on issues related to urbanization.Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Urban PMAYUnion Minister of State IC MoHUA Shri Hardeep Singh Puri released a short movie that encapsulated the Missions journey of six glorious years in fulfilling the dream of a pucca house for millions of Indians. In line with the vision of Prime Minister- Housing for All by 2022 PMAY-U has registered outstanding success. So far about 1.12 crore houses have been sanctioned for its beneficiaries out of which more than 83 lakh houses are grounded and more than 50 lakh completed.At the event which was attended by Secretary MoHUA Shri Durga Shanker Mishra other senior officials of MoHUA StatesUTsULBs a short movie contest Khushiyon ka Ashiyana was declared open for students youths non-governmental organisations institutions and individualgroups in the run up to Indias 75th Independence. Accordingly 75 such movies under diverse aspects of the Mission like Housing for All Sapno ka Aashiyana Laabharthiyon ki Zuban Se Women Empowerment Livelihood Life Transformation will be selected by a jury of eminent persons. 25 awards each under the Gold Silver and Bronze categories will be given away along with a cash prize and citation from MoHUA.A video testimonial Ghar Hua Apna Pura Hua Sapna of PMAY-U beneficiaries who have experienced life transformation on moving into a pucca house were also released at the event.In addition MoHUA announced that 75 Awas Par Samvaad workshops will be held across StatesUTs in SchoolsCollegesInstitutions to propel the Housing for All as a universal theme.PMAY U implementation has followed the ethos of Cooperative Federalism in which MoHUA delegated powers to States UTs for project formulation appraisal and approval. Further the success of the Mission can be attributed to its robust financial model of which Direct Benefit Transfer has been a key element. Besides use of Information Technology for real time monitoring and technological innovation additional funding through ExtraBudgetary Resource over and aboveBudgetary allocations have been major contributors. The houses sanctioned so far under the Mission involve an investment of 7.35 lakh crore with Central Assistance of 1.81 lakh crore. As of now over 100000 crore of Central Assistance has already been released. Infusion of such a large amount of funding has propelled the economy. For sustained funding support to keep the pace of construction activities over and above Budgetary support a corpus of 60000 crore through EBR was mobilized under National Urban Housing Fund NUHF wherein 43000 Cr has already been drawn. Affordable Housing Fund 20000 Cr are being utilized in the last 3 years. Acknowledging the diversity in housing demand across various income groups of the country for the first time interest subsidy on home loans have been given to Middle-Income Group having annual income of upto 18 Lakh under PMAY-Us Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme CLSS. Nearly 16 lakh beneficiaries belonging to Economically Weaker Sections EWS Lower Income Group LIG and MIG have so far been brought under the fold of CLSS.Due to its forward and backward linkages to other sectors the current investment made by the Government in the sector has created almost an estimated 689 crore person days of employment translating into around 246 lakh jobs and led to consumption of 370 Lakh MT of cement and 84 Lakh MT of steel.Over the years the Government has taken up various measures for adopting construction technology reforms in the housing. MoHUA organised Global Housing Technology Challenge India GHTC-India in 2019 to identify and mainstream globally best available proven construction technologies that are sustainable green and disaster-resilient to enable a paradigm shift in affordable housing. On 1st January 2021 Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ushered the Nation into a new era of construction technology. He laid the foundation of six Light House Projects LHPs in the country through video conference. The LHPs that are being built under PMAY-U showcase the best of new-age alternate global technology in housing construction sector selected through GHTC-India.As a response to the reverse migration taking place due to the COVID-19 MoHUA launched Affordable Rental Housing Complexes ARHCs a sub-scheme under PMAYU for urban migrants poor. Under Model 1 a total of 2588 houses have been made operational in Chandigarh and Surat Gujaratand RFPs are issued for 6649 houses across other States. Under Model 2 so far proposals for about 80000 ARHC units have been received from PublicPrivate entities in 17 StatesUTs. Second round of EoI has been issued on for shortlisting of additional entity with last date as 30th June 2021. Investment under ARHCs is expected to create 11.74 crore person days of employment with 3.89 crore direct and 7.84 crore indirect in nature.
