CM appoints second nodal agency to expedite PMAY yojana in state

By Realty Quarter Bureau

In a move that is expected to help better implementation of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) in the state, the Maharashtra government has appointed Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA) as the second nodal agency for the policy.

Earlier Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) was the only nodal agency looking after the implementation of PMAY in the entire state. A government resolution was recently passed making this announcement.

The Maharashtra government has an ambitious target of building 19.4 lakh affordable homes by 2022. There are 60,000 ongoing projects in the state through PMAY. This policy was rolled in 2015 and till now only about 10% of the state is covered under it.

“By appointing DMA as another nodal agency the government aims to streamline the entire process. It has been seen that MHADA alone was facing a lot of difficulties in implementing this policy. By getting DMA on board, we are attempting to ease the entire process of coordination”, says a housing department official.

DMA will focus on the implementation of the scheme at Municipal Council and Municipal Panchayat level. The directorate has been asked to survey their respective areas, to compile the information of all the potential beneficiaries. DMA has also been asked to prepare a Detailed Project Report (DPR) and submit it to the housing minister as well as to MHADA.

Recently, the central government had also come out with Public Private Partnership Models for Affordable Housing in India in order to attract private sector’s partnership into PMAY. The state government is hopeful that with these measures the policy will get a good head start in the coming months.

The developer community is also optimistic that by bringing in DMA the government will be able to fulfill the target it has set out for itself under PMAY.