The cabinet is about to give a go ahead for the biggest ever financial plan for the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna Urban (PMAY-U) to measure up the budgetary requirement for 1.2 crore affordable housing development across urban areas of the country by 2022. Under this scheme, the share for the central government for building affordable homes in a couple of upcoming financial years was estimated at around Rs. 60,000 crore.
It’s expected that the government will raise this huge amount from the non-budgetary resources. Fund-raising entities such as HUDCO or National Small Savings Fund (NSSF) are likely to help the housing ministry to cumulate the amount. By far, NSSF has deposited Rs. 1.2 lac crore.
In the present financial year, the housing and urban affairs ministry requires about Rs. 8,000-Rs. 10,000 crore to meet the vast urban affordable housing need. The budget proposal had a consideration of raising Rs. 25 crore from additional funding from 2018-19 and the similar amount will be needed in the next fiscal to ensure that there’s no financial crunch. However, the housing ministry has approved 39.25 lac houses under the scheme. Finance minister Arun Jaitley had announced to establish “Affordable Housing Fund” which will be anchored in the National Housing Bank (NHB) to raise the amount from the non-budgetary resources.
Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, “The Centre’s flagship scheme Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) would not face any financial constraint because of the creation of a dedicated ‘Affordable Housing Fund’ announced in the Budget 2018-19.”
The minister said so far, this was the massive increase of funds as against Rs 6,042.81 crore allocated for PMAY (U) in 2017-18.
“Union budget coupled with institutional incentives will foster considerable real estate selling across India. Both the private developers and investors will have an extensive landscape to invest in,”-said Mr. Mahesh Somani, Chairman- National RERA Committee, National Association of Realtors India (NAR-INDIA).
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