The Standing Committee on Rural Development headed by AIADMK's P Venugopal has in its tenth report made a strong pitch for increasing the allocations under these schemes and asked the Ministry of Rural Development to pursue the matter with the Finance Ministry keeping in view the importance of rural development for inclusive growth.
The NDA government's ambitious 'Housing for All by 2022' scheme aims to construct two crore affordable houses in urban areas and three crore in rural sector.
Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said on Monday that more than 9,000 BPL families in Kerala would be given financial aid to construct houses in Kerala