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Monday, October 13, 2025
TopicHousing for All

Topic: Housing for All

46% of houses built under PMAY-U for urban poor remain vacant. ‘Incomplete infra, delay in allotments’

Parliamentary panel report also highlights 'unwilling allottees' as reason for vacant houses. Standing Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs says 'unoccupancy defeats Mission's purpose'.

PMAY’s subsidy burden will become unmanageable. Govt must look at the PPP model

PMAY is an excellent first step to put mechanisms in place for directly reaching the beneficiaries but it has to evolve so it stays relevant and can be scaled up going ahead.

4 challenges Model Tenancy Act must overcome to provide affordable housing

An enabling environment requires a supportive ecosystem, which the current version of Modi govt's Model Tenancy Act is unable to provide.

Mumbai residents win govt housing lottery and spend more on kids’ education, jobs: Study

A study of a subsidised housing programme in Mumbai also shows evidence of lottery winners becoming motivated to improve local governance.

Huge drop in rural women getting houses under Modi’s pet scheme, govt says few women left

Women’s welfare is one of Modi govt’s major election planks yet data shows a drop by half in the number of houses given to women.

Three years on, Modi Sarkar tinkers with UPA schemes in its pursuit of a rural makeover

While UPA resorted to big-bang rural policies, the approach of NDA-2 has been subtle and focused on completing programmes of its predecessor as the BJP tries to shed the image of being a party of the urban classes. RUHI TEWARI

On Camera

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.