GDA launches 13,500 housing units under PMAY

The Ghaziabad Development Authority, which has set a target to build 13,500 houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), is all set to start the construction work and the targeted housing units will be completed this year itself, said sources elaborating that the construction has already begun on 850 units. The GDA will build 36,000 houses in total under the scheme by 2021, a decision that was announced by Vice-chairperson Kanchan Verma on the very first day in office. The GDA has already sent a detailed project report to the state government for 7,066 units under PMAY and will soon start work in six places to build the housing units. As of now, construction work has started only in Madhuban-Bapudham, where 856 houses will be built. The other areas where the affordable dwelling units would come up by next year are Koyal Enclave (1,800), Pratap Vihar (1,910), Masuri (1,441), Newari (528) and Dasna (532). ―But barring Maduban-Bapudham, construction work under PMAY is still to take off. According to the GDA‘s plan, 13,500 houses would be built by 2018-19, 18,000 by 2019-20 and another 4,500 by 2020-21. Apart from the GDA, private developers have also been roped in for constructing houses under PMAY.