Access to land and housing is a basic requirement for every rural household. If we compare access to land in urban and rural areas, we can observe economic growth, high market price of the land and prosperity in urban areas whereas in rural areas access to land and housing is a mark of dignity and social recognition. The Government of India launched the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana—Gramin to provide quality housing and access to basic service like sanitation, drainage, electricity, water, etc. in the rural areas. This scheme provides a subsidy to the beneficiaries as determined by the Socio-Economic Caste Census 2011 to build their pucca houses with basic living amenities. By building pucca houses in rural areas, the scheme is ensuring access to housing needs and its convergence with other government schemes like the Swachh Bharat Mission, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Jal Jeevan Mission and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana. This chapter underlines access to land and housing as the basic requirement for every rural household by examining PMAY that aims to achieve “Housing for All” by 2022. The deadline for achieving the target has already passed and the scheme suffers from lack of implementation and delay in funding for its proper execution. One of the major limitations of the scheme is that access to a plot of land is the basic requirement for being eligible for PMAY. This means that this policy has categorically excluded the landless people from having access to land and quality housing. As per the 2011 census, there are 144 million landless farmers, the majority of whom are in rural areas. There is also a need to recognize that in spite of the digitization initiatives to streamline revenue administration, land is still a contested domain with 66% of all civil cases in India related to land disputes. There are innumerable contestations related to updation of land records, mutation, incorrect entries in land records and lack of availability of sufficient data. This chapter provides the structural limitations by examining the performance of PMAY-G and solutions for the effective implementation of the scheme.

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Access to Land and Housing: An Analysis of PMAY-Gramin

  • Gaurika Chugh

摘要

Access to land and housing is a basic requirement for every rural household. If we compare access to land in urban and rural areas, we can observe economic growth, high market price of the land and prosperity in urban areas whereas in rural areas access to land and housing is a mark of dignity and social recognition. The Government of India launched the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana—Gramin to provide quality housing and access to basic service like sanitation, drainage, electricity, water, etc. in the rural areas. This scheme provides a subsidy to the beneficiaries as determined by the Socio-Economic Caste Census 2011 to build their pucca houses with basic living amenities. By building pucca houses in rural areas, the scheme is ensuring access to housing needs and its convergence with other government schemes like the Swachh Bharat Mission, Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Jal Jeevan Mission and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana. This chapter underlines access to land and housing as the basic requirement for every rural household by examining PMAY that aims to achieve “Housing for All” by 2022. The deadline for achieving the target has already passed and the scheme suffers from lack of implementation and delay in funding for its proper execution. One of the major limitations of the scheme is that access to a plot of land is the basic requirement for being eligible for PMAY. This means that this policy has categorically excluded the landless people from having access to land and quality housing. As per the 2011 census, there are 144 million landless farmers, the majority of whom are in rural areas. There is also a need to recognize that in spite of the digitization initiatives to streamline revenue administration, land is still a contested domain with 66% of all civil cases in India related to land disputes. There are innumerable contestations related to updation of land records, mutation, incorrect entries in land records and lack of availability of sufficient data. This chapter provides the structural limitations by examining the performance of PMAY-G and solutions for the effective implementation of the scheme.