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Developing EWS flats in cities tougher than households building own homes
An independent study finds that the long-running Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U) programme has shown the way for addressing this challenge in non-million cities (under 1 million population)
Debarpita Roy
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The biggest challenge for India's housing policy has been enabling the development of adequate formal housing for the urban poor and low-income households in the country's million-plus cities. India's urban housing policy bundles these households into the economically weaker section (EWS) income group — defined as households with an annual income of ₹3 lakh or less, and housing programmes of the Union and state governments mostly target this group. This focus is spot on. Empirical studies show that the share of EWS households among inadequately housed households has been increasing — from 96 per cent in 2012, according to the
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