PM Modi to release Rs 2,691 crore to 6.1 lakh beneficiaries of housing scheme in UP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release financial assistance of around Rs 2,691 crore to 6.1 lakh beneficiaries in Uttar Presh under Prhan Mantri Awaas Yojana - Gramin (PMAY-G) on Wednesday via video conferencing. 

PMO said assistance would include release of first installment to 5.30 lakh beneficiaries and second installment to 80 thousand beneficiaries. 

Modi has set a target of "housing for all by 2022", for which a flagship program of PMAY-G was launched in vember 2016.

So far, 1.26 crore houses have alrey been built across country under scheme, PMO ted.

Under PMAY-G, each beneficiary is given a 100 per cent grant of Rs 1.20 lakh (in plain areas) and Rs 1.30 lakh (in hilly states, rastern states, difficult areas, Jammu and Kashmir, Lakh, and Naxalism-affected areas among ors). 

(IM CREDITS:PTI)