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Structure of Housing for All scheme a concern: Director, CURE

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Published : Mar 15, 2019, 7:49 PM IST

Dr Renu Khosla, Director at Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence has said that through PMAY scheme, government intends to build multi level housing at city's edges which remains inaccessible for the poor. She stated that framework of the scheme causes disruption among rural poor.

Structure of Housing for All scheme a concern: Director, CURE

Structure of Housing for All scheme a concern: Director, CURE

New Delhi: The Union government's key policy initiative PMAY or the "Housing for All-2022" scheme has visible concerns, saysDr Renu Khosla, Director at Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence.

Structure of Housing for All scheme a concern: Director, CURE

"Housing for All is a good idea where people can have their own houses. One of the reasons for slum formation is because cities have not invested in sufficient clean housing," she said.

"As an idea ensuring that every family gets housing, the scheme becomes part of social justice. However it has failed to create an environment were poor people can afford to built their own houses," Dr Renu Khosla said.

"Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana is structured in a way that there is a tendancy for state governments to build housing for the poor. They completely forget that poor make their own houses. Houses should be built taking into account several factors including accessibility to health and market," she added.

Speaking on implementation of the scheme, she said"Under the scheme government intends to build multi level housing at city edges."

"In other words government is sanitising the cities by taking poorer sections of the society to the margins of the city, disrupting their lives," she added.

As per the reports, India has a shortage of 15 million houses.Till February, Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has sanctioned 79,04,674 houses under the PMAY(U).

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New Delhi: The Union government's key policy initiative PMAY or the "Housing for All-2022" scheme has visible concerns, saysDr Renu Khosla, Director at Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence.

Structure of Housing for All scheme a concern: Director, CURE

"Housing for All is a good idea where people can have their own houses. One of the reasons for slum formation is because cities have not invested in sufficient clean housing," she said.

"As an idea ensuring that every family gets housing, the scheme becomes part of social justice. However it has failed to create an environment were poor people can afford to built their own houses," Dr Renu Khosla said.

"Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana is structured in a way that there is a tendancy for state governments to build housing for the poor. They completely forget that poor make their own houses. Houses should be built taking into account several factors including accessibility to health and market," she added.

Speaking on implementation of the scheme, she said"Under the scheme government intends to build multi level housing at city edges."

"In other words government is sanitising the cities by taking poorer sections of the society to the margins of the city, disrupting their lives," she added.

As per the reports, India has a shortage of 15 million houses.Till February, Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has sanctioned 79,04,674 houses under the PMAY(U).

Also read:Rahul must contest from Karnataka: Congress leader

Intro:New Delhi: It's more than four and half years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched "Housing for All-2022" scheme. The scheme which is also known as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), however, confronts with some concerns too.

Body:"Housing for All is a good idea where people can have their own houses. It's a part of social justice...But governmnet intends to build multi level housing at city's edges," said Dr Renu Khosla, Director, Centre for Urban and Regional Excellence.

Dr Khosla said that people often hesitate or not willing to go to the edges because of basic necessities.

"Land is available in edges. In other way Governmnet is sensitiaing the city by taking some section of the sociery to the edges of the city," said Dr Khosla.

"If he or she has their source of income in the city, why will they opt to go to the edges," Dr Khosla said.

As per the reports, India has a shortage of 15 million houses.

Till February last, Union Minustry of Housing and Urban Affairs has sanctioned 79,04,674 houses under the PMAY (U).

Dr Khosla, however, said that India's urban scenarios is taking an upward trend.

"India's urban scenario is growing. In fact, we are no longer rural economy, rather we are urban economy now," Dr Khosla said.

Conclusion:Governmnet records shows that Uttar Pradesh has been sanctioned with maximum number of houses under PMAY.

Uttar Pradesh has got 1,79,215 houses followed by 1,10,618 houses for Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra 1,01,220 houses, Karnataka got a sanction of 48,729 houses.

Governmnet records shows that construction of houses increases every year. In 2017, 44.54 lakh houses were constructed which was 34.18 lakh in 2016 and 18 lakhs houses were built in 2015.

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