August 26, the Prime Minister will visit Hansalpur in a special investment region of Mandal-Becharaja to start new Maruti Suzuki facility before returning to the new Delhi of Ahmedabad. File | Photo Credit: PTI
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit Gujarat 25 and 26 August to start 1,449 houses and 130 shops built at the price of 133.42 GBP Crore under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) in Nikola, Ahmedabad. The aim of the project is to provide modern houses to families living in slum areas.
Mr. Modi is likely to address the public gathering in Nikola from 18:00 to 19:00, after which he will stay in Raj Bhavan in Gandhinagar overnight. Sources suggest that it can also meet the BJP leaders to discuss the potential overlap of the cabinet and the selection of the new President of the party.
August 26, the Prime Minister will visit Hansalpur in a special investment region of Mandal-Becharaja to start new Maruti Suzuki facility before returning to the new Delhi of Ahmedabad.
Rehabilitation work within the Slum In-Situ Recovery system relates to sector-3 Ramapir of Tekra Slum in the western zone, Ahmedabad, implemented in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the slum-2013.
Within the Gujarat PMay (U) he sanctioned 9.66 lake houses against the target of 7.64 Lakhy, while about 9.07 Lakh has already completed. In 2019 and 2022, Gujarat won several national prizes for PMay (U), officials said on Thursday (August 21, 2025).
In PMay (rural), 6.00 932 houses were completed in 2016–17 and 2024-25. For 2025-26, 39,092 houses have been completed so far, with 2,39,441 being under construction. “Total expenditure under PMay in the state is 8,936.55 crore.”
The government provides another 50,000 GBP per house under PMay (countryside). In Mukhyamantri Promshan Sahay Yojana, he earns an extra 20,000 GBP, while women receive 5,000 GBP for bathrooms, according to officials. “Combined with the benefits of MGNGA and Swachh Bharat, each recipient can receive up to 2,32,920 GBP,” they said.
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Officials stated that Gujarat was the first state to implement the available housing rental scheme and transformed 393 houses into rental units in Surrat. It is also among the six states selected for the Light House project, building 1,144 houses in Rajkot using a monolithic concrete structure, they added.
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Published – August 21, 2025 20:32
