Housing cheer for the under privileged
Over 2 lakh poor people from extremely backward, backward and general as well as minority communities are set to gain as the Centre has accepted the request of Bihar for transferring quotas under the Prime Minister Housing Scheme (rural) from SC/ST category to people of these categories. Bihar had made this request as sufficient beneficiaries under SC/ST quota were not available in the state. This had come to light after verification of the socio-economic caste census data of 2011. According to the scheme norms, 60 per cent of the houses remain reserved for SC/ST category beneficiaries and based on this norm, a total of 7,05,970 houses had to be made for people of these categories out of 11,76,617 houses that had been sanctioned for Bihar during 2016-17 and 2017-18. While 6,37,658 houses had been sanctioned for Bihar in the housing scheme in 2016-17, the corresponding number was 5,38,959 in 2017-18.
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