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Interest Subsidy Scheme on Home Loans for Middle Income Groups Extended by 15 Months

Interest subsidy scheme on home loans for middle income groups extended by 15 months

Central government today announced that the benefit of interest subsidy of about Rs 2.60 lakh on home loans under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) will now be available for beneficiaries belonging to middle income groups (MIG) for fifteen more months beyond December this year.

The central government today announced that the benefit of interest subsidy of about Rs 2.60 lakh on home loans under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) will now be available for beneficiaries belonging to middle income groups (MIG) for fifteen more months beyond December this year.

This was announced by Durga Shanker Mishra, Secretary (Housing & Urban Affairs), Government of India, while addressing the ‘Real Estate and Infrastructure Investors Summit’ organized by NAREDCO, in Mumbai today.

He said that the government decided to give more time for MIG beneficiaries to avail interest subsidy under PMAY (Urban).

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his announcement on December 31 last year, made applicable the Credit-Linked Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) under the PMAY (Urban) to MIG, till the end of December this year.

Under CLSS, MIG beneficiaries with an annual income of above Rs 6 lakhs and up to Rs 12 lakhs would get an interest subsidy of 4.00 percent on a 20-year loan component of Rs 9 lakh. Those with an annual income exceeding Rs 12 lakh and up to Rs 18.00 lakh would get an interest subsidy of 3 percent.

Reiterating the government’s commitment to meet the Housing for All targets in urban areas by 2022, Mishra urged private investors to invest in affordable housing, being promoted by the government in a big way with several incentives and concessions.

Mishra later held an hour-long discussion with a 30-member delegation of NAREDCO and assured them that the government would look into various issues raised by them in all sincerity and possible interventions would be considered.

The delegation referred to what they called anomalies in GST rates for completed and under-construction housing projects, stamp duties being higher and kept outside the purview of GST, scarcity of land, delays in granting construction permits, lack of coordination among different municipal agencies, RBI’s high-risk weightage for lending to real estate sector despite Real Estate Act coming into force, inadequate bank financing despite non-performing assets in respect of construction being much less than other sectors., etc.

The delegation expressed concerns over GST and other taxes accounting for over one-third of the cost of residential properties. Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs Shri Hardeep Singh Puri, who addressed the summit yesterday suggested to NAREDCO to have a detailed discussion with Secretary (HUA) for resolving the issues so that affordable housing could be given a boost.

Source: MoneyControl News

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