The Prime Minister of India has announced a new Centrally sponsoredscheme called Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY) on the 15th August, 2001 to ameliorate the conditions of the Urban Slum dwellers living below poverty line. Government are pleased to accord administration sanction to implement the scheme with the following features, in the State:
The objective of Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY) - is
primarily to provide shelter or upgrade the existing shelter for
people living below the
poverty line in Urban Slums in a march towards the goal of slum
less cities with a
healthy and enabling Urban environment.
The target group under the Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY)
will be all slum dwellers in Urban areas who are the BPL
including members of the
EWS who do not possess adequate shelter.
Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY) -is a Centrally
Sponsored
Scheme shared on a 50:50 basis with States which envisages an
annual subsidy of Rs.
1000/- crores from the Ministry of Urban Development and Poverty
Alleviation to be
matched by an equal amount of long term loan from HUDCO to be
availed against usual
State Government Guarantee. The State Government has been given
the option to
obtain resources from any other source (ie. other than HUDCO) eg:
budgetary support,
own resources of Local Bodies, loan from other agencies etc.
A new National City Sanitation Project under the title of
"Nirmal Bharat
Abhiyan" is an integral sub component of Valmiki Ambedkar Awas
Yojana
(VAMBAY)
The implementation of Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY)
be
dovetailed and synergised with other existing programs such as
National Slum
Development Programme (NSDP) and Swarna Jayanthi Shahari Rozgar
Yojana
(SJSRY). The availability of drinking water, sanitatio n, and
drainage facilities should
be ensured under these programmes. On an average 25% of the
funds under the Scheme
will be spent for providing water and sanitation facilities
including approximately 20%
of the amount for community sanitation project- Nirmal Bharat
Abhiyan.
Selection of beneficiaries will be made by the State Urban
Development
Agency (SUDA)/ District of Urban Development Agency (DUDA) in
consultation with
the Local Authorities. Help of reputed NGOs may be enlisted for
the purpose.
In selecting the beneficiaries the
following reservation/percentage will be followed:
SC/ST - Not less than
50 %
Backward Classes - 30%
Other weaker sections -
15% (OBC, BC. Etc.)
Physically and mentally disabled
and handicapped persons and
others
- 5%
After identification of the beneficiaries, the latter must be
provided title as
a pre-condition for the loan or subsidy. This may be done by the
State Government,
Local Body either by regularization in-situ or by relocation.
The title to the land should
be in the name of the husband and wife jointly or preferably in
the name of the wife.
Till the repayment of the loan, if any, the house built with
Valmiki Ambedkar Awas
Yojana (VAMBAY) - funds along with the land shall be mortgaged
to the State
Government/implementing agency.
No provision is made for Land acquisition in Valmiki Ambedkar
Awas
Yojana (VAMBAY).
No hard and fast type/design is prescribed for Valmiki
Ambedkar Awas
Yojana (VAMBAY) dwelling units. However, the plinth area of a
new house should be
normally be not less than 15 sq. mts.
The upper financial limit for constructions of Valmiki
Ambedkar Awas
Yojana (VAMBAY) units will be Rs 40,000/- with provision
sanitary toilet also.
However for cities with more than one million populations it
will be Rs 50,000. In hilly
and difficult areas this ceiling may be enhanced by 12.5%.
A portion say 20% of the funds may be used for the upgrading
of existing
dwelling units in slums. The upper limit for upgradation of an
existing dwelling unit
shall not be more than 50% of the ceiling specified for
construction of a new house.
The norms for Town and Country planning of the State
Government and
the rules and bye-laws of the Local Bodies, should be kept in
view while the
implementation of the scheme.
II. Government are also pleased to nominate the State
Poverty Eradication
Mission (SUDA) which is the State Urban Development Agency (SUDA)
in the
State as the nodal agency for the implementation of the Scheme.
Executive Director,
State Poverty Eradication Mission will take immediate action to
prepare detailed project
proposal with respect to the implementation of the Scheme in the
State.
