Maharashtra govt issues guidelines to push construction of 19 lakh PMAY homes

This was necessitated as state's physical progress under PMAY has been low compared to other states due to ''thick-skinned and insensitive'' implementing agencies. State housing secretary Sanjay Kumar has issued a three-page notification on July 15 with a call to implementing agencies to pull up socks and expedite the construction of homes under PMAY. The state government has set an ambitious target of construction of 19.40 lakh houses till 2022 under PMAY. Between 2016-17 and July 2019, 11.38 lakh houses were sanctioned of which 2 lakh were constructed and some of them were handed over to the beneficiaries. Further, the construction of 3.4 lakh houses was under various stages.