Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has congratulated the Housing & Urban Development Department as Odisha has received the PMAY-U Awards 2021, for ‘Best Policy Initiatives by State’ under special category.
The prestigious award has been conferred by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and MoHUA Minister Hardeep Singh Puri during the ‘Indian Urban Housing Conclave’, held at Rajkot, Gujarat.
Congratulations to @HUDDeptOdisha as #Odisha received PMAY-U Awards 2021, for ‘Best Policy Initiatives by State’ under special category. The award has been conferred by Hon’ble PM Shri @narendramodi & Union Min Shri @HardeepSPuri during ‘Indian Urban Housing Conclave’ in Rajkot. pic.twitter.com/85EsB1LP0a
— CMO Odisha (@CMO_Odisha) October 20, 2022
The Government of India has recognised Odisha as a State that has pioneered in creating solutions for the landless urban poor, by providing them with security of tenure under its flagship initiative Jaga Mission, that has further helped beneficiaries in housing assistance under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna-Urban (PMAY-U). The innovation around leveraging such convergence of schemes, by the Odisha Government has been highly appreciated at the event.
With the prevailing urban challenges like housing, formation of informal settlements that further caused in emergence of multiple issues relating to civic and safety gaps, socio-economic incongruity and disruption to city planning, Odisha has paved a way towards addressing such challenges associated with urbanization through enactment of a landmark legislation ‘Odisha Land Rights to Slum Dwellers Act 2017’.
Jaga Mission interventions focused on assessing gaps at individual household level like land rights, housing support, including individual toilet, piped water supply & in-house electricity, community level- access to pavered road, drainage and proper street-lighting in slums and social needs of people – Parichaya community centres, open space development and child play areas with proper play equipment.
One of the major highlights of State Government’s initiative is the convergence of Jaga Mission with Odisha Urban Housing Mission (OUHM) to provide land rights and housing to beneficiaries.