The total housing requirement in India has increased a whopping 26.53 million in this fiscal compared to 24.71 million recorded in 2007, the Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) Kumari Selja told the Rajya Sabha today.
She said that as per the Census of India, urban population had
registered a growth rate of 31.5% in the decade 1991-2001 while it stood at
31.8% in the next decade 2001-2011. In absolute terms, the increase in
population during the past two decades has been 68.55 million and 90.99
million.
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha Kumari Selja said, as per the assessment made by the Technical Group constituted by Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, the total housing requirement as on 2007 was 24.71 million which was estimated to increase to 26.53 million by 2012.
Urging the state government to provide housing and other facilities to all the citizens, she said, ‘Land’ and ‘Colonisation’ are State subjects. “However, the Central Government is supporting the construction of housing for poor sections of the society in urban areas through various programmatic interventions namely - Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), The Interest Subsidy Scheme for Housing the Urban Poor (ISHUP) and The scheme of Affordable Housing in Partnership.
In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha Kumari Selja said, as per the assessment made by the Technical Group constituted by Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation, the total housing requirement as on 2007 was 24.71 million which was estimated to increase to 26.53 million by 2012.
Urging the state government to provide housing and other facilities to all the citizens, she said, ‘Land’ and ‘Colonisation’ are State subjects. “However, the Central Government is supporting the construction of housing for poor sections of the society in urban areas through various programmatic interventions namely - Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY), The Interest Subsidy Scheme for Housing the Urban Poor (ISHUP) and The scheme of Affordable Housing in Partnership.
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