Adding to the low cost housing counts in the urban areas, the Centre has approved construction of 1.5 lakh houses for urban poor under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), thereby, taking to 47.52 lakh the tally of houses under the program so far, the Housing and Urban Affairs (HUA) ministry said. The latest approval entails an investment of ₹7,227 crore with Central assistance of ₹2,209 crore, the ministry said. The approval was given in the 34th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee at its recent meeting. Under the provision Andhra Pradesh was sanctioned 56,512 houses, while Uttar Pradesh got 23,060, Madhya Pradesh 17,920, Jharkhand 14,526 and Maharashtra 13,506 houses. Other states for which houses were approved included Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Odisha, Punjab and Assam. With the latest approval for construction of affordable houses, the cumulative figure under PMAY(U) has reached 47.52 lakh houses.
