Madhya Pradesh has been awarded 3 SKOCH Awards for urban development and municipal governance. The Silver SKOCH award -2023 has been awarded to Sagar Smart City for building She-Lounge women’s facility, Madhya Pradesh Urban Development Company for better management of Dharmapuri Sewage Project and Urban Development and Housing Department for remarkable work in Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Urban.
Commissioner Urban Administration and Development Bharat Yadav, State Mission Director of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) Shri Satendra Singh and Additional Commissioner Smt. Ruchika Chauhan received the award on May 27 in New Delhi.
Urban Development and Housing Minister Shri Bhupendra Singh has congratulated the entire team for this achievement. He said that the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) was launched by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in June-2015 with the objective of providing pucca housing to every poor citizen of the country. Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban has been effectively implemented in Madhya Pradesh under the able leadership of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. So far, approval of houses has been received for more than 9.5 lakh beneficiaries in various components of the scheme in the state. Out of this, the construction of about 6.5 lakh houses has been completed.
Many innovations made by the state and effective strategies adopted have contributed to the success of the scheme in the state. Landless families have been provided lease of residential land, so that they do not miss out on taking advantage of the BLC component of the scheme. This is the most popular component of the scheme in small and medium towns. In order to overcome the difficulties faced by the beneficiaries in getting loans from the banks in the component, loans are being made available easily to the AHP component beneficiaries of the scheme on the responsibility of the urban bodies through a tripartite agreement. For the implementation of the component, government land has been made available to the urban bodies within a time bound period on the basis of land owner rights. Along with this, for the registered workers who are not able to meet the beneficiary share, an additional grant of up to Rs one lakh is being made available under the ‘Mukhyamantri Bhawan evam Sannirman Karmakar Awas Yojana’ in addition to the provisioned amount in the scheme.
It is notable that Madhya Pradesh is the second best performing state in Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) in October-2022 and has also been awarded the best state award in convergence with other schemes, conduct of IEC (publicity) activities and performance of state level technical cell by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Along with this, Gohad and Jobat were awarded for best performing Municipal Corporation and Municipal Council and Dewas for second best performing Municipal Corporation by the Central Government. Even before this, Madhya Pradesh has received the PMAY Empowering India Awards 2022 for the best performing state in July-2022 for the effective implementation of the scheme in the state. , Also, on June 24, 2022, Madhya Pradesh has been given 4 awards in the “Khushiyon Ka Aashiyana” competition by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. In January-2021, Madhya Pradesh was given the second award of “Best Performing State” for the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) and 3 awards in other category, thus a total of 4 awards were given by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
