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Nation Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana

EMPOWERING POOR BY

PROVIDING HOUSES

Owning a house opens the door to respect, confidence, an assured future, a new identity,
and growing possibilities. The efforts to provide houses to the poor and needy have
been accorded the top priority that too till the completion of 75 years of independence.
Undoubtedly this will be the biggest treat of the Amrit Mahotsav for the poor. With this
ambition, the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana was started in 2015. With the construction of
more than 3 crore pucca houses, the dream of the roof over every head is becoming true...

imlesh of Agra earlier lived in a broken kutcha
house. But now she has got a new pucca
Vhouse under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.
Vimlesh says, “Earlier when relatives used to come MY COMRADES, WHO USED TO
to the house, I felt ashamed. It was difficult to even LIVE IN SLUMS AND DID NOT
imagine that I would ever have a pucca house. But HAVE A PUCCA ROOF, NOW THREE
PM Awas Yojana made my dream of home come true.
The story of Babita, who lives in Lalitpur, Uttar CRORE SUCH FAMILIES HAVE GOT
Pradesh, is similar to that of Vimlesh. She had to THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME
live under abject conditions where water would drip MILLIONAIRES. UNDER THE
from the roof of the kutcha house in the middle of
the rain making it difficult to even cook food and it PRADHAN MANTRI AWAS YOJANA,
was very difficult living among insects. However, ABOUT 3 CRORE HOUSES HAVE
after receiving the house under the Prime Minister's BEEN BUILT IN THE COUNTRY, YOU
housing scheme, those days are only a bad memory
for her. CAN GUESS ABOUT THEIR COST.
Bua Ditta of Jammu, Ramjanki Pal of Kanpur, and THESE PEOPLE HAVE BECOME
80-year-old Shashi Barik from Balangir, Odisha are MILLIONAIRES
also among the beneficiaries of PM Awas Yojana.
Shashi says, “We are now living in a pucca house. - NARENDRA MODI, PRIME MINISTER
Thanks to the government for helping poor families

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