{"id":3456,"date":"2011-08-04T05:04:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2011-08-04T05:04:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:04:24","slug":"rajiv-awas-yojana-and-affordable-housing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3456","title":{"rendered":"Rajiv Awas Yojana and affordable housing project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Union Cabinet okays affordable housing project<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> In an effort to create a slum-free country by 2020, the Union  government has approved the development of housing and basic facilities  in slums across 250 cities in the country, under the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Rajiv Awas Yojana<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The slum development projects would be undertaken in 250 cities  that have a population of more than one lakh. The project will be  undertaken across the country by the end of the 12th Five Year Plan  (2012-2017). The scheme aims at helping re-development of slums,  stopping proliferation and providing a dignified life, besides property  rights to the dwellers.<\/p>\n<p>The Union government will bear 50 per cent of the cost of the  projects and Rs 1,000 crore will be provided as capital for mortgage  guarantee facilities under the scheme. The Centre will provide financial  assistance to States willing to assign property rights to slum-dwellers  for provision of shelter and basic, civic and social services, besides  creation of affordable housing stock.<\/p>\n<p>Around 32.1 million people live in slums in Indian cities. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Cabinet okays affordable housing project In an effort to create a slum-free country by 2020, the Union government has approved the development of housing and basic facilities in slums &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=3456\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5118,5116,5119,5120],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-club","tag-affordable-housing-project","tag-national-affairs","tag-rajiv-awas-yojana","tag-slum-free-country","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}