Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Gramin), the Central government has targeted to construct one crore new houses by March 31, 2019 and 51 lakh of them will be built and handed over to the homeless by 31st March 2018, the Rural Development ministry said in an official statement, that after the launch of the scheme in 2016, it took a few months to complete the process of beneficiary registration, geo-tagging, account verification and used Socio Economic Census of 2011 for selection of beneficiaries. The homeless and those living in one kuccha room with kuccha roof or two kuccha rooms with kuccha roof are the beneficiaries of this pro-poor PMAY scheme. The homes have been designed by the best of institutions after studying the existing local design typologies and are constructed for beneficiaries as per their need. The payment for construction of the houses is directly transferred into the accounts of beneficiaries. The poor are getting safe homes with facilities like toilet, LPG connection, electricity connection, drinking water facility, among others. To ensure transparency and check corruption, the Centre has set up an online platform where any person can see the construction of homes with geo-tagged photographs and complete details of beneficiaries and payments made to them.
