India Housing: PMAY-Urban, PMAY-Gramin and PMAY-U 2.0 Progress

PMAY-Urban was launched on 25 June 2015 and is implemented by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs; PMAY-Gramin was launched in 2016 and is run by the Ministry of Rural Development [2]. PMAY-U targets the urban housing shortage among Economically Weaker Section, Low Income Group and Middle Income Group households, including slum dwellers [2].

The original PMAY-U mission period ran to 31 March 2022 and was extended to 31 December 2025 to complete houses sanctioned up to that date [3]. The female head of the family must be owner or co-owner of the house [2]. In June 2024, after 4.21 crore houses had been sanctioned since launch, the Cabinet approved assistance for 3 crore additional rural and urban households [2].

The PMAY-Urban dashboard reports 127.68 lakh houses sanctioned, 121.03 lakh grounded and 99.07 lakh completed [1]. Central assistance committed is INR 2.12 lakh crore, of which INR 1,80,582 crore has been released, and total investment is INR 8.96 lakh crore [1]. About 77.6% of sanctioned houses are complete (FREEE.REPORT calculation) [1].

For comparison, on 10 June 2024 PIB reported 1.18 crore houses sanctioned, 1.14 crore grounded and 83.67 lakh completed, with INR 1,99,652 crore committed and INR 1,63,926 crore released [2]. About 16 lakh houses were being built with new technologies [2].

In August 2026, MoHUA said more than 1.25 crore houses had been sanctioned under PMAY-U and PMAY-U 2.0 combined, of which over 1 crore had been completed and delivered, as reported by DD India [5].

PMAY-U 2.0 is the follow-on urban phase. As reported by the Times of India citing the government, houses sanctioned under PMAY-U 2.0 crossed 18.38 lakh in August 2026, including 14.40 lakh under the Beneficiary Led Construction vertical [4].

PMAY-G set a target of 2.95 crore rural houses [2]. As of 12 June 2024, 2.94 crore houses had been sanctioned and 2.62 crore completed, about 89% of sanctions (FREEE.REPORT calculation) [2].

Of houses constructed, 2.12 crore (72.35%) were owned by women alone or jointly and 81.08 lakh (27.65%) by men [2]. Allocations designate 1.77 crore houses (60%) for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and 44.24 lakh (15%) for minority communities [2]. In plain areas 1.75 crore of 1.95 crore sanctioned houses were complete, and in hilly areas 84.21 lakh of 99.08 lakh [2].

As of June 2024, Andhra Pradesh had the most PMAY-U sanctions at 21,37,028 houses, followed by Uttar Pradesh (17,76,823) and Maharashtra (13,64,923) [2]. The full top ten is in the table below [2].

Current PMAY-U figures are taken from the official PMAY-Urban dashboard on the date accessed [1]; dashboard values update continuously. June 2024 PMAY-U and PMAY-G figures come from a PIB press note [2]. PMAY-U 2.0 and the August 2026 combined milestone come from news reports citing the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs [4][5]. Units: 1 lakh = 100,000; 1 crore = 10 million. Completion rates are FREEE.REPORT calculations: completed houses divided by sanctioned houses for the same date.