'Housing Ministry plans to allow projects in villages'
15 Oct 2017 10:51 PM IST
New Delhi: The housing and urban affairs ministry plans to allow housing projects in villages close to mega cities, in a bid to give momentum to the Centre's flagship housing programme, a senior official has said.
The housing ministry is in talks with the rural development ministry over the move and a decision on it was expected soon, the official said, on condition of anonymity.
The proposed plan is expected to give a momentum to the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban).
The housing ministry aims to provide houses to all urban poor by 2022. The shortage of houses is pegged at around 1.2 crore in 4,041 statutory urban local bodies in the country.
The government is considering allowing urban housing projects in peripheral villages because of the unavailability of sufficient land in mega cities for construction of new housing projects, the official said.
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