Sardar Patel Awas Yojana (SPAY) is a housing scheme launched by the government of Gujarat in India to provide affordable housing to economically weaker sections (EWS) and low-income groups (LIG) of society.
Sardar Patel Awas Yojana - Introduction
Under the Sardar Patel Awas Yojana, the government provides financial assistance to eligible beneficiaries for the construction of their own house. The scheme is implemented by Gujarat Housing Board (GHB) and Gujarat Urban Development Mission (GUDM) in urban areas, and by Gujarat Rural Housing Corporation (GRHC) in rural areas.
Sardar Patel Awas Yojana is a housing scheme launched by the government of Gujarat in India to provide affordable housing to economically weaker sections and low-income groups of society. The scheme provides financial assistance to eligible beneficiaries for the construction of their own house, and is implemented by Gujarat Housing Board and Gujarat Urban Development Mission in urban areas, and by Gujarat Rural Housing Corporation in rural areas. The scheme aims to improve the living standards of the underprivileged sections of society by providing them with their own homes.
Eligibility
- This state government scheme, aimed at the poor, allows persons registered below the poverty line in rural areas to avail its benefits.
- A person who does not own a plot or house may avail the benefit of the scheme.
- The applicant should not have benefited from any other housing scheme.
- An applicant who owns up to half a hectare of irrigated land or up to one hectare of unirrigated land may also avail the scheme's advantages.
- If a husband and wife live together, and if there is a plot or house in either of their names, and they have lived in the same village for the last five years, either of them may avail the benefit of the scheme.
- If a beneficiary is a native of the village, he should hold a below-poverty-line card of that village. He must obtain a certificate from the sarpanch stating that he has not benefited from the Sardar Patel Awas Yojana in the village, and that there is no house in his or his wife's name in the native place. The certificate should confirm that they fall under the definition of B.P.L.
- The benefit under the Sardar Patel Awas Yojana is available to a villager living below the poverty line only once.