41 Lakh Homes Built for Poor: Bihar IPRD Minister
PATNA: Shrawan Kumar, the Rural Development and IPRD Minister, announced that Bihar has constructed 4.156 million pucca houses for the impoverished over the past decade, starting from the 2016-17 fiscal year. During this period, administrative approval was granted for a total of 4,909,806 housing units, with over 85% of construction successfully completed. The minister detailed that the former Indira Awas Yojana was revamped in the 2016-17 financial year to provide durable housing with essential amenities to impoverished families in rural areas, many of whom lived in makeshift and crumbling homes or were entirely homeless. This program was rebranded as the…