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Dream House Nation

BENEFITS OF THE SCHEMES OF THE

CENTRE FOR DELHI

Connected more than 50 lakh people with banking
facilities in Delhi. Due to the addition of banking,
more than 50 thousand street vendors in Delhi got
the benefit of PM Svanidhi Yojana.
Assistance of more than Rs 30 thousand crores
was given to small entrepreneurs without
guarantee in PM Mudra Yojana.
The central government spent more than Rs 2500
crore on providing free ration to lakhs of poor
people of Delhi for two consecutive years. Gave
insurance coverage to more than 40 lakh poor.
The central government gave a subsidy of more
than Rs 700 crore in interest so that poor and
middle-class people can build their own houses.
Delhi-NCR had a network of 190 km of Metrorail
in 2014, which has now reached 400 km. 135 new
metro stations have been added in eight years.
In order to provide relief from traffic jams, the
Indian government is investing more than 50
thousand crore rupees to widen and modernize the
roads.
KEEP CLEANLINESS AND SAVE Central government is getting many infrastructure
works completed including Dwarka Expressway,
ELECTRICITY AND WATER Urban Extension Road, and 6-lane access control

Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a pledge highway from Akshardham to Baghpat, Gurugram-
Sohna elevated corridor.
from the beneficiaries that they "will use LED Rapid Rail is going to start soon for Delhi-NCR, then
bulbs in the house," "will not allow water to be the grand railway station reconstruction of New
wasted in any condition," and "will not allow Delhi is going to start soon.
slum conditions to develop." PM Modi said, The construction of Bharat Vandana Park on
"Residents should compete every month in 80 hectares of land in Dwarka is about to be
their colony regarding cleanliness to see which completed in the next few months.
tower is the cleanest." "The notion of filth DDA is developing various parks on the stretch of
around slums has to be ended." 22 km from Wazirabad barrage to Okhla barrage
on the banks of Yamuna.

Jhuggi Clusters of Delhi. Quality model EDWS flats the eyes of the beneficiaries. Beneficiary Usha Roy
have been constructed for the rehabilitation of slum says, "The future of me and my two children will be
cluster residents at the nearby vacant commercial much brighter now."
centre site of Kalkaji. The first phase included the Prime Minister Narendra Modi says, "Housing for
construction of 5 towers on 3.06 hectares at a cost of all, electricity for all, insurance for all, gas connections
Rs 343 crore. Rehabilitation of three slum clusters, for all—this will be the picture of New India. The
namely landless camps, Navjin camps, and Jawahar government in the country today is the government
camps, in these flats will be done in a phased of the poor, so it cannot leave the poor in their own
manner. Built on an area of 25 square meters, the condition. The poor are at the centre of the country's
flats include a living room, a bedroom, a kitchen, a policies and decisions. Work is going on to regularise
bathroom, and a ventilated balcony. The happiness the houses built in unauthorised Delhi colonies
of getting the keys to their flats is clearly visible in through the PM-UDAY scheme.

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