Rising Construction Costs Stall PMAY-G Progress in Mysuru
Representative image created by AI MYSURU: The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PMAY-G), the government’s flagship rural housing scheme, is encountering substantial delays in the Mysuru and Chamarajanagar districts. This is largely due to rising construction material and labor costs. In Mysuru, there are 20,908 houses planned for the fiscal year 2024-25, but only 64.4% of the work has been completed so far. Chamarajanagar has made even less progress, with only 27.2% completion. Out of the 20,908 houses set for Mysuru, 13,462 beneficiaries have begun construction after receiving their allotment letters, leaving 7,466 others still awaiting theirs. In Chamarajanagar, of the…