Uttar Pradesh: Will give keys of houses to 1 lakh poor people within 100 days, says Deputy CM Maurya

Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya said, "We will hand over keys of houses to one lakh poor people within 100 days by constructing new houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana." 

Lucknow: More than one lakh poor people in Uttar Pradesh will be given keys within 100 days to houses built for them under the 'Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana', Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said on Thursday.

The state government will also constitute 50,000 new self-help groups under the State Rural Livelihood Mission to augment women's income in rural areas within the same time period, he told PTI in an interview here.

Also within 100 days, a playground each will be constructed in 2,600 gram panchayats and 6,000 ponds in total will be restored, Maurya said.

With the aim of speeding up development in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had recently in a meeting with his cabinet members brainstormed on a 100-day action plan.

Maurya, who handled the public works department as the deputy chief minister in the first government under Adityanath's leadership (2017-2022), has now been given the responsibility of the rural development, rural engineering, food processing, entertainment tax, public enterprises and the national integration departments.