Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs

Total Amount Utilized Under AHF for the Years 2018-19 and 2019-20 is Rs. 12,583 Crore


AHF to Improve Credit Availability for Meeting Housing Needs of People in Lower Income Segments

Posted On: 21 SEP 2020 3:47PM by PIB Delhi

The Government is implementing the Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) as one of the components of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) [PMAY(U)] to provide interest subsidy for housing loans to eligible beneficiaries in urban area.

Pursuant to the announcement in the Union Budget 2018-19, Affordable Housing Fund (AHF) was set up in National Housing Bank with a corpus of Rs. 10,000croresto provide re-finance assistance to Primary Lending Institutions (PLIs) in respect of their individual housing loans to target segments in rural and urban areas.  This was followed by Rs. 10,000 crore allocation in 2019-20.  The total amount utilized under AHF for the years 2018-19 and 2019-20 is Rs. 12,583crores.  The purpose of AHF is to improve credit availability for meeting the housing needs of the people in lower income segments.

State-wise details of the number of beneficiaries of the CLSS scheme during the last three years are given below.

This was informed by Minister of State (I/C) for Housing and Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

RJ/RP

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Annexure - I

S.No.

Particulars

EWS/LIG

MIG-I

MIG-II

1.

Household Income (Rs. Per Annum)

Up to.3,00,000/- for EWS and between 3,00,001 to 6,00,000 for LIG

Between 600,001 up to 12,00,000

Between 12,00,001 up to 18,00,000

2.

Interest Subsidy (% p.a)

 

6.5%

4%

3%

3.

Maximum loan tenure (in years)

20

20

20

4.

Eligible Housing Loan Amount for Interest Subsidy (Rs.)

6,00,000*

9,00,000*

12,00,000*

5.

Dwelling Unit Carpet Area (Sq.mtr)

30#/60#

Up to 160

Up to 200

6.

Discount Rate for Net Present Value (NPV) calculation for interest subsidy

9%

9%

9%

7.

Upfront Amount for Subsidy (approximately in Rs.)

2,67,280

2,35,000

2,30,000

*Loans beyond this limit will be at non-subsidised rates.

# In case of EWS/LIG, a beneficiary, at his/her discretion can build a house of larger area but interest subvention would be limited to first Rs. 6 lakh only. EWS/LIG households can also avail CLSS subsidy for addition of rooms, kitchen, toilet etc. to existing dwellings as incremental housing.

 

Annexure II

State/UTwisedetailsofbeneficiariesduring the last three years (2017-18, 2018-19 and 2019-20) under Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) of PMAY-U

 

Sr. No.

 

Name of State/UT

 

Number of beneficiaries (households) during last three years

1

A&N Island (UT)

3

2

Andhra Pradesh

24,437

3

Arunachal Pradesh

36

4

Assam

1,219

5

Bihar

7,984

6

Chandigarh (UT)

574

7

Chhattisgarh

12,186

8

Dadar Nagar H & DD

2,901

9

Delhi (NCR)

18,986

10

Goa

915

11

Gujarat

2,40,085

12

Haryana

19,403

13

Himachal Pradesh

744

14

J&K (UT)

1,467

15

Jharkhand

6,638

16

Karnataka

46,802

17

Kerala

14,351

18

Ladakh (UT)

61

19

Lakshadweep (UT)

-

20

Madhya Pradesh

56,873

21

Maharashtra

2,40,221

22

Manipur

152

23

Meghalaya

117

24

Mizoram

910

25

Nagaland

25

26

Odisha

4,664

27

Puducherry (UT)

649

28

Punjab

16,553

29

Rajasthan

49,323

30

Sikkim

28

31

Tamil Nadu

45,304

32

Telangana

34,841

33

Tripura

869

34

Uttar Pradesh

68,708

35

Uttarakhand

8,275

36

West Bengal

29,607

Grand Total

9,55,911

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