Under the Housing for All scheme Indian government has set a target of building _________ houses by 2022.

Question

Question

This question was previously asked in

KVS TGT WET (Work Experience Teacher) 8 Jan 2017 Official Paper

Answer 1

The correct answer is 50 lakh.

Key Points

Union Government aims to achieve the objective of Housing for All by 2022 under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Grameen.
A total of over one crore 50 lakh rural houses have been completed in the last five years.
The eligible beneficiaries will get one crore 95 lakh houses in the second phase of the scheme.
Government has set a target of 60 lakh houses for the current financial year.
The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Gramin (PMAY-G) has been devised in line with the Government’s commitment to provide ‘Housing for All’ by 2022 in the rural areas.
The scheme aims at providing a pucca house with basic amenities to all houseless householder living in kutcha and dilapidated houses by 2022.