
A Correspondent
The approval was given in the 37th meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee in its meeting held on Thursday. The Ministry has approved the construction of 1,12,213 more affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor under PMAY (Urban).
Few other states have also received a good number of houses under PMAY. Andhra Pradesh has been sanctioned 37,719 houses while Haryana gets 19,858 affordable houses. The number of houses sanctioned for Madhya Pradesh is 18,375, Maharashtra 12,238 houses, Chattisgarh 10,632 houses and Karnataka 8,761 houses. Approvals given for J&K stands at 4,442 houses.