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New guidelines for Indira Awas Yojna scheme
Monday May 13, 2013 08:34:50 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The
government Monday came out with a slew of guidelines for the Indira Awas Yojna scheme for building houses for rural poor,
including increased allocations and a requirement for constructing
compulsory toilets for each unit.
Seen as a bid to rev up the programme ahead of the general
elections next year, the rural development ministry has made
building toilets compulsory under the Indira Awas Yojna. The
special assistance of Rs.10,000 would be coming from the 'Nirmal
Bharat Abhiyan' which is a scheme to provide clean drinking water
and sanitation.
Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh told reporters that only
21 percent of houses built under the IAY have toilets. "The last
instalment under IAY would not be released till toilets are
built."
The states have also been issued guidelines to ensure that manual
scavengers, freed bonded labourers and particularly vulnerable
tribal groups are given preference in allotments.
The ministry will also ask each state government to focus on
scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and minorities.
The allocation for each dwelling unit has been increased from
Rs.45,000 to Rs.75,000.
In Maoist-affected and mountainous regions, the allocation would
now be Rs.75,000 from the existing Rs.48,500. Landless labourers
which were given Rs.10,000 for buying land would now be given
Rs.20,000, said Ramesh.
Apart from these, a major financial change has been made which is
that funds will be given to only consolidated proposals from state
governments and not district-level organisations.
"This change has been affected keeping in view the
misappropriation of funds in another flagship programme the
national rural health mission," Ramesh said.
The minister added that 620 proposals are received every year.
From this year, only one consolidated proposal will be received
from each state.
The IAY is a flagship scheme of the rural development ministry and
aims at addressing rural housing needs by providing grant for
construction of dwelling units of BPL families.
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