Newsinc24 Team 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that more than 80 percent owners of the houses under PMAY urban are women and UP government is giving rebate of registration fee in case of a women buyer. He said that people of UP better understand the difference between the UP before 2017 and UP after 2017. Now UP has the will power for urban development. The Prime Minister was speaking at the inauguration function of the New Urban India: Transforming Urban Landscape Conference - cum-Expo at Lucknow on Tuesday
Modi said that more than 3 crore poor families in the country became lakhpati with this PMAY housing scheme only and more than Rs 1 lakh crore have been transferred into accounts of beneficiaries of housing schemes being run by his government. Modi also said that the 21st century India will move with the power of multi model connectivity and many schemes and infrastructure projects run by the central government are giving thrust to urban development and generating employment in the country. The PM said that his government has made efforts to solve the problems of the middle class by bringing RERA into action so that the middle class can buy his dream house. The rules related to work from home during covid scenario made life easy for the urban population.
The PM said that people were apprehensive when our government started many infrastructure development projects but it has become a reality now. Today we are making so many houses that are more than the population of some countries, he added. He said that previous governments approved only 13 lakh houses under the PMAY and only 8 lakh houses were actually constructed. Now his government has given approval of more than one crore 13 lakhs and even more than 50 lakh have actually been delivered to the beneficiaries.
Union Housing and Urban affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that the demand for houses under the PMAY Urban have increased manifold after the Yogi Government came into power. Now Cities like Lucknow, Kanpur and Varanasi have more loan applicants under the scheme than Delhi and Mumbai. He said that UP now has 82 km metro rail network and 67 km was made operational during the Yogi Government. Air connectivity has also improved phenomenally. Earlier only 4 airports were there in Uttar Pradesh in 2014, out of which only 2 were operational, now the state has 8 operational airports. Defence Minister and Local MP Rajnath Singh said on the occasion that today the country is moving towards urbanization and our government is committed towards development of smart cities which have Housing for All and Sustainable Mobility which will promote Livelihood Opportunities.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that UP has achieved many milestones in the last 4.5 years in the field of urban development. Out of 6 light house projects which started in the country, one was in Lucknow and many families will get keys to these houses today which are made with new technologies. He said that Metro trains will start running in Kanpur from November.
