"Property is surely a right of Mankind, as real as
Liberty"
-John Adams, 2nd President of the United States of America
Introduction:
The Government of India in June 2015, approved an ambitious
initiative, through which it targets to provide affordable housing
by building 2 crore (20 million) affordable houses by 31 March 2022
for the urban poor. This initiative, named as Pradhan Mantri Awas
Yojna aims to cover the entire urban area comprising of 4041
statutory towns with the preliminary focus being on 500 Class I
cities, which will then be expanded in three phases as
follows:1
1) Phase-I (April 2015 – March 2017) to cover 100 Cities
to be selected from States/UTs as per their willingness;
