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Empowering Rural India Cover Story

PM Awas Yojana:
The Way To Housing For All

'Housing for All' target has been set by March 31, 2024
and to build 2.95 crore houses Pradhan Mantri Awas
Yojana-Gramin was launched on 1 April 2016. By July
20, 2023, 2.92 crore houses have been approved, in
which construction of 2.41 crore houses has been
completed. Similarly, in Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-
Urban, the entire scheme except the credit linked
subsidy scheme component has been extended till
December, 2024. In this, till July 10, 1.19 crore houses
have been approved.
4 crore houses have been given to the

needy eligible people in rural and
urban areas.

26 4.2
Over Rs

crore pucca houses with
basic facilities has
lakh crore was spent. to be built

PM Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana: Providing food to the underprivileged
80 tonnes of food
In order to remove the financial burden of poor beneficiaries 1121 million metric
and to ensure nationwide uniformity and effective
implementation of the National Food Security Act, the Central grains were distributed in
Government has announced Antyodaya Anna Yojana and seven phases.
Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana to the beneficiaries crore Over Rs
received free 3.91
of priority families for a period of one year from January 1, 2023 beneficiaries lakh crore was
who have started getting food grains free of cost. In the same spent by the
scheme during the Covid-19 period, additional free food grains
food grains central government in this
were distributed to 80 crore people.
free food distribution.

risen from 19.7 percent in 2018-19 to 27.7 of water in the villages. Be it the construction of
percent in 2020-21. toilets under the Swachh Bharat Mission or beyond
Housing for All has fulfilled the dream of a house that, the role of startups in sanitation management,
with dignity. Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas the initiative of making Kanchan out of waste has
Yojana, more than four crore-pucca houses have changed the face of villages. Saubhagya Yojana
been made available to the people. Under the Jal and Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Ghar Yojana has
Jeevan Mission, the great campaign to provide clean achieved a significant milestone in the direction
drinking water to 19 crore rural families is going on of electrifying households without electricity in
at a fast pace. The scheme of Amrit Sarovar under rural areas of the country and providing electricity
Amrit Mahotsav has given new life to the availability supply to poor families in cities. In the past years,

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