2021 PMAY-U Awards

October 31, 2022

The 2021 PMAY-U Awards were conferred at the event organized in Rajkot, Gujarat.

The PMAY-U Award for Implementation and Innovation was instituted under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban, by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in 2019.

The PMAY-U was launched in 2015 to address the housing shortage in India’s urban areas.
It aims to construct 1.12 crore housing units by 2022. Of these, 80 lakh houses have been grounded and 48 lakh houses are already completed.

This award is conferred to recognize the efforts by the states, UTs and urban local bodies towards achieving the scheme’s objectives.
There are 3 broad categories of these awards:

State Awards, Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils and Nagar Panchayats Awards
Special Category Awards
Beneficiary Awards

Under this initiative, a 100 Days Challenge was started to promote healthy competition among the states, UTs and ULBs. In this challenge, their performances on some pre-defined indicators over a 100 day period are assessed. Their performance in the challenge has 50% weightage for the award.
Some of the parameters for evaluation are – 100 Days Challenge (50% weightage), Implementation of the Scheme (25% weightage), Outreach and Transparency (15% weightage) and Institutional Architecture for the Scheme (10% weightage).

The 2021 Awards are the 2^nd edition of these awards. The 100 Days Challenge spanned between 21^st June and 30^th September of 2021.
Among the states, the top performers are Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
The top performing states for the 2019 awards were Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
Among the northeastern and hilly states, Tripura emerged as the top performer. The state had won an award for 2019 as well.
Jammu and Kashmir and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu were adjudged as the ‘Best Performing UT’.
Among the CLTCs (City Level Technical Cells), the top performers are Dewas, Gohad and Jobat in Madhya Pradesh.