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Housing Minister Ponguleti Srinivasa Reddy has urged the Centre to instantly authorisation astatine slightest 3 lakh houses for the State during the existent fiscal year.
In a practice submitted to Union Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the Minister said determination was a monolithic pending request for houses successful agrarian Telangana owed to prolonged neglect of lodging operation betwixt 2014 and 2023. He met the Union Minister during his sojourn to Hyderabad and submitted a practice to him.
The Minister said the erstwhile authorities had wholly failed to unafraid adjacent a azygous location from the Centre successful their decennary rule. He pointed retired that, arsenic per the directions of Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, the State authorities has been repeatedly requesting the Centre for the past 2 years to authorisation houses for agrarian areas, but determination has been nary affirmative effect truthful far.
“At slightest during this fiscal year, the Centre should authorisation 3 lakh houses for agrarian Telangana,” helium appealed adding that the goverment is already constructing astir 4 lakh Indiramma houses this year.
Mr Ponguleti said that Telangana had not been portion of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana – Gramin (PMAY-G) 1.0 earlier. However, aft the enactment of the Congress authorities successful 2023, the State officially joined PMAY-G 2.0 successful accordance with the guidelines of the Union Ministry of Rural Development.
Although the Union Cabinet approved PMAY-G 2.0 successful August 2024 and decided to allocate houses connected a saturation ground aft updating the Awaas+ 2018 survey, allocations for 2024–25 and 2025–26 were made to different States based connected aged data. Since Telangana was not portion of PMAY-G 1.0, it did not person immoderate pending 2018 data.
The State authorities has since conducted an extended door-to-door survey and prepared a caller database of eligible beneficiaries. As per Central guidelines, different survey was conducted done the Awaas+ 2024 mobile application, identifying 11.57 lakh eligible agrarian families.
Considering the immense backlog of lodging request accumulated implicit the past 12 years, Minister Ponguleti urged the Centre to recognize Telangana’s unsocial concern and authorisation 3 lakh houses successful the existent fiscal twelvemonth and different 2 lakh houses adjacent year.
