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Budget 2023: PMAY-G may get big push on time for 2024 General Elections

In FY-23, Centre first allocated Rs 20,000 cr for PMAY-G and then topped it up with infusion of Rs 28,000 cr, in the coming 2023 Budget a similar push is expected, sources said

The new facility will be over  and above the existing  finance schemes of the housing sector regulator
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Sanjeeb Mukherjee New Delhi
With the forthcoming Budget being the last full Budget ahead of the 2024 general elections, the Narendra Modi government is expected to continue with its big thrust on the rural housing scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Grameen (PMAY-G).

It may plan a significant hike in budgetary support aimed at completing the balance 8.4 million dwellings by March 2024.

PMAY-G is one of the flagship schemes of the Modi government. Under this, it aims to build 29.5 million pucca houses in rural areas with basic amenities such as a functional toilet and single-point electricity connection by March 2024, through convergence with

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