PM to release 1st instalment of central aid for new rural homes

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will, over the next few days, release the first instalment of the central financial assistance and hand over approval letters to the new beneficiaries of rural housing scheme Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana Grameen (PMAY-Grameen), who have been identified for the new 20 million houses that the Modi government has promised to build over the next five years.

- SANJEEB MUKHERJEE

This would be over and above the almost 26 million houses already built across the country in the last 10 years.

The instalment-release functions, which will culminate on Modi's birthday on September 17, will start from Jharkhand on September 15, where the PM will distribute approval letters among 20,000 beneficiaries.