Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry has approved the construction of 560695 more affordable houses for the benefit of urban poor under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban).<br />''<br />''The approval was given in the 43rd meeting of the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee in New Delhi today. <br />''<br />''The cumulative number of houses sanctioned under the scheme is now over 79 lakh. <br />''<br />''An official release said, the number of houses sanctioned for Uttar Pradesh is over one lakh 79 thousand, for Andhra Pradesh one lakh 10 thousand, Maharashtra – over one lakh while Karnataka has been sanctioned over 48 thousand houses.<br />''<br />