Rajiv Awas Yojana
Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) is an Indian government program that attempts to help slum dwellers gain appropriate housing and address the processes by which slums are created and reproduced. It was introduced by the Indian government's Ministry of Housing and Alleviation.[1] The programme is a Centrally Sponsored Scheme, and will run from 2013 to 2022.[2] This scheme aims to make India slum-free by 2022 by providing people with shelter or housing, free of cost. It began with a pilot project,[3] before launching in mission mode.[4] The government earmarked Rs. 32,230 crore for implementation during India's 12th Five Year Plan.[1] One million beneficiaries are proposed to be covered under Rajiv Awas Yojana.[5]
Objectives
- To improve and provide housing, basic civic infrastructure, and social amenities in intervened slums
- To enable reforms by addressing some of the causes leading to the creation of slums
- To facilitate a supportive environment for the expansion of institutional credit linkages for the urban poor
- To institutionalize mechanisms for the prevention of slums, including the creation of affordable housing stock
- To strengthen institutional and human resource capacities at the municipal, city, and state levels through comprehensive capacity building and the strengthening of resource networks
Provisions
Site selection was to be made by the states in consultation with the Centre giving priority to district headquarters, cities of religious heritage and tourist importance, with due consideration to the criterion of the pace of growth of the city, of slums within the city and predominance of Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe and minority population and other weaker and vulnerable section of the society.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "A Comprehensive Guide to Rajiv Awas Yojana". Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ↑ "Rajiv Awas Yojana" (Press release). Press Information Bureau. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- ↑ "Pilot Project under Rajiv Awas Yojna". Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ↑ "CCEA approves launch of Rajiv Awas Yojana". Business Standard. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ↑ "One Million Beneficiaries Proposed to be Covered Under Rajiv Awas Yojana". Retrieved 9 September 2013.