3.5 mn houses delivered to PMAY-Urban beneficiaries so far: H S Puri

Presently more than 22,000 houses are being dedicatedly used as Covid-19 facility units in various states and Union Territories, Puri said

At least 3.5 million houses have so far been delivered to beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY-Urban) while 6.5 million houses are currently under construction, Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Thursday.

Puri said an estimated 36.5 million jobs would be generated in the construction of all sanctioned houses under the mission and of these, about 16.5 million jobs would have already been generated.

The government has set a target of 11.2 million houses in urban areas by 2022 under PMAY - ''Housing for All'', one of the flagship programmes of the Narendra Modi government.

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