Less than 40 pc urban homeless in Odisha have got pucca house

LESS than 40 per cent of the total urban homeless identified across all civic bodies in state have been provided pucca houses so far.

- SUDARSAN MAHARANA @Bhubaneswar

Sources in the Housing and Urban Development (H&UD) department said more than 3,53,000 homeless families had been identified in the state in the 'Housing for All' plan of action survey in 2017-18.

However, a little over 1.33 lakh families, only about 38 per cent, have been provided pucca houses in these seven-and-half years between 2017-18 and 2024-25 fiscal so far.

All the beneficiaries have been provided the houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) as the state didn't have its own scheme.