PMAY

Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana is a national welfare intervention designed to provide affordable, all-weather pucca houses with basic civic amenities to eligible urban and rural households.

• It acts as a key mechanism for multidimensional poverty alleviation by combining shelter security with access to sanitation, drinking water, and electricity.
• It advances gender empowerment by mandating female ownership or joint title-holding for allotted housing units.
• It illustrates federal fiscal governance through cost-sharing models between the central government and state administrations.

UPSC evaluates PMAY under GS Paper II and Paper III as an instrument of social justice, urban infrastructure, and rural development. Questions typically examine structural bottlenecks in execution, beneficiary identification challenges, and the operational convergence of housing with other central welfare missions.

• Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections GS2
• Government policies and interventions GS2

• Ayushman Bharat
• Beti Bachao Beti Padhao
• Blue Revolution
• Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana (DDU-GKY)
• Green Revolution – Krishonnati Yojana
• Integrated Scheme on Agricultural Cooperation
• Integrated Scheme on Agricultural Marketing
• MGNREGA
• Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture
• National Food Security Mission
• National Health Mission
• National Livestock Mission
• National Mission for Sustainable Agriculture
• National Mission on Oilseeds and Oil Palm
• National Mission on Sustainable Agriculture
• National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM)
• National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP)
• National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM)
• Paramparagat Krishi Vikas Yojana
• Poshan Abhiyaan
• Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana
• Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY)
• Pradhan Mantri Krishi Sinchayee Yojana
• Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana (PMMY)
• Price Stabilization Fund
• Rashtriya Gokul Mission
• Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan
• Skill India Mission
• Soil Health Card Scheme