Kohima Bureau
Kohima, March 27 (EMN): An amount of INR 11492 lakh has been proposed for construction of 8500 rural houses in Nagaland during 2018-19 under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) scheme.
The PMAY-G is a centrally sponsored scheme (CSS) aimed at providing housing to the people living in rural areas. With the objective to address the gap in rural housing and in view of the governments’ commitment to provide ‘Housing For All’ by 2022, the erstwhile Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY) scheme has been re-structured into PMAY-G in 2016.
The scheme aims to provide a ‘pucca’ house with basic amenities to all houseless households and households living in ‘kutcha’ and dilapidated houses by 2022. The immediate objective is to cover one cr. households living in ‘kutcha’/dilapidated houses in the three years from 2016-17 to 2018-19 and ensure construction of quality houses using local materials, designs and masons specially trained in quality workmanship.
In 2017-18, against a projected amount of INR 7388.227 lakh, an amount of INR 1610.507 lakh was reported to have been made available for implementation of PMAY-G programme in the state, i.e., Centre share INR 988.38 lakh and state share INR 612.127 lakh. Out of the total available fund, 4237 houses are to be constructed in the rural areas.
The above information was contained in the annual administrative report of the Rural Development department for 2017-18 which was tabled in the state assembly on Monday by Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio.
The report stated that for houses to become homes, adequate care for adopting a habitat approach through convergence is proposed, by providing permanent shelter so that migration to urban areas is expected to be reduced substantially.
The RD department stated to be aiming to implement the programme through the Village Development Boards (VDBs) by providing durable shelters. Construction of the houses will be done by beneficiaries themselves. Under convergence, the beneficiary can avail wage of 95 mandays from MGNREGA for construction of house.
“Under the scheme, for the purpose of monitoring, technical support and maintenance of MIS for PMAY-G houses etc. 4% administrative cost has been earmarked to be shared between the centre and state on ratio of 90:10 basis. Out of this 4% of fund, 0.5% will be retained at the state level and the remaining 3.50% to be released to the districts,” the report stated.
However, the Union Minister of State for Development of North Eastern Region, Jitendra Singh had on February 17, 2018 announced that the centre has decided to fully fund various central projects being implemented in the Northeast, instead of the 90:10 pattern.
