Housing Ministry Launches ARHC Portal
The Housing Ministry launched the Affordable Rental Housing Complex portal, where numerous incentives/benefits including free floor area ratio, concessional project finance, trunk infrastructure facilities free of cost amongst others are a part of a ARHCs scheme for urban migrants/ poor under PMAY- U. Earlier, an ARHCs Knowledge Pack that included Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to be signed with States/UTs, Operational Guidelines in English, Model Request for Proposal (RFP) for selection of Concessionaire by States/UTs/ULBs (under Model-1), Draft Expression of Interest (EOI) for shortlisting of Entities under Model-2 and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) were launched on July 31, 2020 Meanwhile, a national report on ANGIKAAR - a campaign for change management for PMAY (U) beneficiaries through a 3 C strategy- Community Engagement, Convergence and Communication was also launched. ANGIKAAR-campaign was launched on August 29, 2019. Around 18,500 ANGIKAAR Resource Persons were trained by about 2,200 specialists of City Level Technical Cell (CLTC) working in 4,427 cities of PMAY (U). The campaign has built capacities to manage change and also address issues that arose due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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