Over 11 lakh PMAY houses completed in Chhattisgarh in two and half years, says govt

Raipur, Jul 10 (PTI) More than 11 lakh houses have been built under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in Chhattisgarh over the last two-and-a-half years, with the state recording the highest single-year completion rate in the country, officials said on Friday. Marking the milestone at an event in Raipur, Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Thursday handed over keys to some of the PMAY beneficiaries and released a progress report on the "Mor Gaon-Mor Pani" (My Village-My Water) campaign. Soon after taking office in December 2023, the state cabinet approved the release of funds for 18 lakh PMAY houses in its first meeting, and sustained efforts have since resulted in the completion of more than 11 lakh houses across the state, an official statement said. Of these, nearly 6 lakh houses were built in the last financial year, the highest number completed by any state in the country in a single year, it said. As many as 1.51 lakh houses have already been completed in the first 100 days of the current financial year (April 1 to July 9), with an average of more than 1,500 houses being completed every day, the release said. The chief minister on Thursday also released a compendium highlighting the achievements of the "Mor Gaon-Mor Pani" mega campaign, an official said. Launched on April 24, 2025, on the occasion of Panchayati Raj Day, the public participation-based campaign aims to promote water conservation and groundwater recharge in rural areas, he said. Under the campaign, more than one lakh water conservation and augmentation works, worth over Rs 2,000 crore, have been approved and are being implemented through the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) and the state's VB-G-RAM G initiative, he said. The works include the construction of livelihood ponds, new village ponds, contour trenches and other water-harvesting structures to strengthen water conservation, groundwater recharge and rural livelihoods, the official added. PTI TKP ARU