Almost 3.3 million houses awaiting completion under the IAY will be built by the end of 2016-17.
Indira Awaas Yojana, a social welfare programme started to provide homes to the poorest of the poor, has fallen prey to rampant corruption in Bihar, the latest Comptroller and Auditor General report has said.
Norms flouted, non-BPL families cornered grants, say rural development ministry's reports.
In spite of all the talk of helping the aam aadmi, the outlay under the Indira Aawas Yojana (IAY) for the rural poor in 2009-10 is more or less the same as in 2008-09 (revised estimate).
Right now the challenge before the government is to double the speed of construction in order to complete the remaining 6.6 million houses before March 2019.
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