Housing Policies-BJP/UPA/STATE

1. UPA HOUSING SCHEMES
JNNURM
Indira Awas Yojana
Rajiv Awas Yojana
PRESENTED BY:
SHOBHA SURAJ
M.ARCH. (AP) SEM-II

2. HISTORY
• The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) is
a coalition of centre-left political parties
in India formed after the 2004 general
election.
• Chairperson- Sonia Gandhi

3. PROJECT GOALS
 To provide affordable and quality housing for
all sections
 To ensure a Right to Homestead for
all poor households.
 To ensure Title Deeds are given to
those who have been living on lands
for more than two decades.

4. Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban
Renewal Mission (JNNURM)
• JNNURM was launched in December 2005 with
an aim to encourage and expedite urban
reforms in India.
• For the housing sector in particular, its main
aim was construction of 1.5 million houses for
the urban poor during the mission period (2005–
2012) in 65 mission cities.

5. Indira Awaas Yojana
• The Indira Awaas Yojana expanded to cover
all poor rural households.
• Financial assistance for this included money
to not only construct a pucca house but also
individual sanitary toilets and drinking
water connections.
• The demarcation is done among rural poor &
urban poor people for a detach set of plans
functions for the poor in urban areas (such
as the Basic facilities for Poor in Urban).

6. • It is among the main flagship schemes of the Rural
Development Ministry to build homes for BPL inhabitants in
the towns.
• In this plan, financial aid of value 75,000/- Rs. in plain regions
& 75,000/- Rs. in difficult regions is given for building of
homes.
• The building of the homes is the solitary accountability of the
recipient & engagement of outworkers is firmly forbidden.
• Sanitary latrine & smokeless chullah are necessary to be built
along with every IAY homes for which extra financial aid is
given by Total Sanitation Campaign & Rajiv Gandhi Grameen
Vidyutikaran Yojana correspondingly.
• This scheme is in function since year nineteen eighty five, and
offers subsidies & cash- aid to persons in villages to build their
homes, themselves.

7. PURPOSE
The wide idea of the proposal is to offer financial aid to few of
the weakest segments of the public in order to upgrade or build
a home of reputable class for their private livelihood.
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes, minorities & non-SC/ST
rural family in the BPL class, widows & blood relation to
security staff/paramilitary forces slay in battle ( without their
income measure), ex-servicemen & retired paramilitary forces
member living in rural regions constitute the main target set of
suitable applicants for the scheme of IAY.

8. • In March 2016, the Union Cabinet had approved to replace
the existing Indira Awas Yojana with Pradhan Mantri Awas
Yojana – Gramin as a part of ‘Housing for All’ by 2022
mission.
• Under this scheme, financial assistance is provided for
construction of dwelling units and upgradations of existing
unserviceable kutcha houses for Scheduled
Castes/Scheduled Tribes and non-SC/ST rural families
living below the poverty line in rural areas.
• A minimum of 60 % of the funds under the scheme is
earmarked for assistance to SC/ST families living below the
poverty line.
• Under this scheme, the unit assistance is Rs. 1,20,000 in
plain areas and to Rs. 1,30,000 in hilly states/difficult
areas /IAP districts.

9. • The expenditure involved in implementing the
project over a span of 3 years from 2016-17 to
2018-19 would be Rs.81975 crore.
• It is expected to provide assistance to one
crore households for construction of pucca house
during the period from 2016-17 to 2018-19.
• The scheme would be implemented throughout
the country in rural areas except for Delhi and
Chandigarh.

10. RAJIV AWAS YOJANA
Rajiv Awes Yojana (RAY) is a new scheme announced by the
President earlier in 2009, focuses on slum dwellers and the
urban poor.
This scheme aims at promoting a slum-free India in five years
and would focus on according property rights to slum
dwellers.
The scheme will focus on according property rights to slum
dwellers and the urban poor by the states and union
territories. It would provide basic amenities such as water
supply, sewerage, drainage, internal and approach roads,
street lighting and social infrastructure facilities in slums and
low income settlements adopting a ‘whole city’ approach.

11. SCOPE OF RAY
• integrated development of all existing slums, notified or no
notified, i.e. development of infrastructure and housing in
the slums or rehabilitation colonies for the slum dwellers or
urban poor, including rental housing.
• development, improvement and maintenance of basic
services to the urban poor, including water supply,
sewerage, drainage, solid waste management, approach and
internal roads, street lighting, community facilities such as
community toilets and baths, informal sector markets and
livelihoods centres.
• other community facilities like preschools, child care
centres, schools, health centres to be undertaken in
convergence with programmes of respective ministries.

12. • convergence with health, education and social
security schemes for the urban poor and connectivity
infrastructure for duly connecting slums with city-
wide infrastructure facilities and projects.
• creation of affordable housing stock, including
rental housing with the provision of civic
infrastructure and services, on ownership, rental or
rental-purchase basis.

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