Hardoi: The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, launched to provide housing to homeless families, has been extended for five years. According to the order issued, now under the Pradhan Mantri Yojana, eligible persons will be selected till 2028-29 and they will be given financial assistance to build houses.

Project Director, Rural Development Agency, Prem Tripathi said that as soon as instructions are received from the government, a survey of eligible homeless families will be started.  The Project Director said that under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, two crore families in the country will be given the benefit of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.

A survey of eligible families will be conducted to provide benefits under the housing scheme. Those homeless families found in the Socio-economic Survey 2011 and Housing Plus Survey 2018 conducted earlier under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, who have not been able to avail the benefits of the scheme till now due to some reasons, will also be benefited.

You will get the benefit of the scheme even if you have a motorcycle

The project director said that under the new guidelines, if any member of a homeless family has a motorcycle, he will also be given the benefit of the scheme. Earlier, if any member of the family had a motorcycle, he was excluded from the scheme, however, this will not happen now.

Prime Minister's house will not be available if you have three wheeler or four wheeler

The Rural Development Ministry of the Government of India has set standards for providing benefits under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. If a family has a motorized three-wheeler or four-wheeler in the list of prescribed ineligibility criteria, then the member of that family will not be given the benefit of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.

Among other conditions, a family will not be able to avail the benefit of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana if it has a three-wheeler or four-wheeler vehicle for agricultural use. A family will be excluded from the eligibility category if it has a Kisan Credit Card of Rs. 50,000 or more, if there are government employees in the family, if the family is registered in non-agricultural enterprises, has a monthly income of Rs. 15,000 or more, pays income tax, professional tax, has two and a half acres of irrigated land or five acres or more of non-irrigated land.

So far one lakh families have been given the benefit of the scheme

Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana, one lakh families in the district have been given the benefit of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana. Housing beneficiaries are given a financial assistance of one lakh 20 thousand rupees along with 90 days of wages from MNREGA for building houses.

These families are given assistance of Rs. 12,000 for construction of toilets under Swachh Bharat Mission on priority basis, free gas connection under Ujjwala Yojana, free electricity connection under Saubhagya Yojana, free tap water connection under Har Ghar Nal Yojana.