ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021
UPDATED: April 27, 2021 21:17 IST
Migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra rest outside Patna junction railway station, Aoril 10, 2021
For over a fortnight now, 24-year-old Chander Kumar from Bihar’s Bahadurpur village has been living with a sense of déjà vu in his one-room shack in Delhi’s Chhatarpur area. His smartphone has been flashing constant updates on Covid-19 cases in the national capital where he works as a domestic help. He is in two minds, and despite chief minister Arvind Kejriwal requesting them not to leave the city, Kumar and his friends are worried about the week-long lockdown announced on April 20 in the national capital.
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ISSUE DATE: May 3, 2021
UPDATED: April 24, 2021 12:57 IST
Migrant workers arriving from Maharashtra rest outside Patna junction railway station, Aoril 10, 2021
For over a fortnight now, 24-year-old Chander Kumar from Bihar’s Bahadurpur village has been living with a sense of déjà vu in his one-room shack in Delhi’s Chhatarpur area. His smartphone has been flashing constant updates on Covid-19 cases in the national capital where he works as a domestic help. He is in two minds, and despite chief minister Arvind Kejriwal requesting them not to leave the city, Kumar and his friends are worried about the week-long lockdown announced on April 20 in the national capital.
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Synopsis
The Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G) is being implemented with effect from April 1, 2016 and aims to provide “Housing for all” through provision of pucca houses with basic amenities to all houseless households and households living in kutcha and dilapidated houses in rural areas.
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Rural development minister Narendra Singh Tomar (File Pic)
Rural development minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Tuesday said unwillingness of beneficiary, migration, death of beneficiaries without legal heir, delay in allotment of land to landless beneficiaries, Covid-19 pandemic and elections have resulted in delay in construction of houses allocated under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.
In response to a question in Lok Sabha, Tomar said out of 111 lakh houses sanctioned for urban India under the scheme, only 43.2 lakh have been completed or delivered which is 38.57% of the total targets while 83.71% or 97.62 lakh houses were completed under PMAY-Gramin as against a target o