PMAY-U Awards,2021

• The 2021 PMAY-U Awards were conferred at the event organized in Rajkot, Gujarat.

• The PMAY-U Award for Implementation and Innovation was instituted under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban, by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in 2019.

• The PMAY-U was launched in 2015 to address the housing shortage in India’s urban areas.

• It aims to construct 1.12 crore housing units by 2022. Of these, 80 lakh houses have been grounded and 48 lakh houses are already completed.

• This award is conferred to recognize the efforts by the states, UTs and urban local bodies towardsachieving the scheme’s objectives.