<span style="color: #222222;">Prime Minister Narendra Modi will release financial assistance of around Rs 2,691 crore to 6,10,000 beneficiaries in Uttar Pradesh under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin, PMAY-G tomorrow through video conferencing. Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath will also be present on the occasion. The assistance will include release of the first installment to 5,30,000 beneficiaries and second installment to 80,000 beneficiaries who have already availed the first installment of assistance under the scheme. </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Prime Minister gave the clarion call of Housing for All by 2022 for which a flagship programme of PMAY-G was launched on 20th November, 2016. So far, one crore 26 lakh houses have already been built across the country under the scheme. Under PMAY-G, each beneficiary is given 100 per cent grant of Rs 1,20,000 in plain areas and Rs 1,30,000 in Hilly States, North Eastern States, Difficult areas, Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, left wing extremism affected districts.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The beneficiaries of PMAY-G, in addition to the unit assistance, are also provided support of unskilled labour wages under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, MGNREGS and assistance of Rs 12,000 for construction of toilets through Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin or any other dedicated source of funding. The scheme has provisions for convergence with other schemes of Government of India and State and UTs for providing LPG connection under Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Scheme, electricity connection and access to safe drinking water under Jal Jeevan Mission.</span><br />'' ''<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-left: 1px solid black; border-top: 1px solid black;"> ''<tbody>''<tr> ''<td valign="top" style="border-right: 1px solid black; border-bottom: 1px solid black;"></td> ''<td style="border-right: 1px solid black; border-bottom: 1px solid black;"></td> </tr> </tbody></table><br />