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31 Mar

‘Come again’, says PM Modi to 72 retiring Rajya Sabha members

On Thursday Prime Minister Narendra Modi bid farewell to the 72 Rajya Sabha MPs who retired from their positions. He said that the experience of the members of Parliament was more valuable than academic knowledge.

Bidding farewell to the 72 Rajya Sabha MPs PM Modi said, “Though this is a farewell but as they say in Bengali, ‘Ami aaschi’ or in Gujarati – ‘Aao jo’ – ‘come again’. That’s what we want to say ‘Come again’.

PM Modi said that experience has more power than academic knowledge. He also said that all MPs should take their rich experiences to all parts of the country.

“Our RS Members have a lot of experience..sometimes experience has more power than academic knowledge,” Modi said.

The Prime Minister added, “We have spent a long time in this Parliament. This House has contributed a lot to our lives, more than we have contributed to it. The experience gathered as a member of this House should be taken to all four directions of the country.”

A total of 72 members are retiring from the Rajya Sabha, including Anand Sharma, AK Antony, Subramanian Swamy, M C Mary Kom, Swapan Dasgupta.

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17 Mar

1.75 Crore Houses Completed Under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana-Gramin

Union Minister of State for Rural Development Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in a written reply in Rajya Sabha informed that under the scheme of PM Awaas Yojana-Gramin, 2.28 crore houses have been sanctioned to the beneficiaries, out of which 1.75 crore houses have been completed as of March 9, 2022. The PMAY-G guidelines provides for construction of house within 12 months from the date of sanctioning the same to the beneficiary. The assistance is released to the beneficiary in a minimum of 3 installments linked to various stages of completion like at the time of sanction, foundation, plinth, windowsill, lintel, roof, etc. Since the figures of house sanction and completion are dynamic and there is a gap of 12 months between sanction of house till its completion, therefore, there would always be some gap between the figures of houses sanctioned and houses built during the implementation of the scheme.

During the period of the Covid-19 pandemic induced nation-wide lockdown, all construction activities including construction of houses under PMAY-G were also affected which retarded the pace of construction of PMAY-G houses. Besides, the delays are also due to delay in release of Central & State Share from State Treasury to State Nodal Account of PMAY-G, cases of the unwillingness of beneficiaries to complete the construction, migration, disputed succession of deceased beneficiaries, delay in allotment of land to landless beneficiaries by the States/UTs and at times those occuring on account of General/Assembly/Panchayat elections, unavailability of building materials etc.

Under the scheme, the highest number of houses constructed during the financial year 2021-22 (as of March 9, 2022) is in Uttar Pradesh (10,22,998) followed by West Bengal and Bihar with 8,53,423 and 5,30,255 houses respectively.

 

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