Ministry of Rural Development
PMAY-G
Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana – Gramin
Money to build a pucca house for rural families who have no house or live in a kutcha or dilapidated house: ₹1.20 lakh in plain areas and ₹1.30 lakh in North-Eastern and hill States. Families are picked through government surveys and verified by the Gram Sabha.
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What you get
- Assistance of ₹1.20 lakh per house in plain areas.
- Assistance of ₹1.30 lakh per house in North-Eastern States and the hill States/UTs of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
- Separate support of ₹12,000 for building a toilet, through Swachh Bharat Mission-Gramin or another source.
- Minimum house size of 25 sq m, including a dedicated area for hygienic cooking.
- Money is paid directly into the beneficiary's bank or post office account.
Who can apply
- Rural households with no shelter (houseless).
- Rural households living in kutcha houses: kutcha walls and kutcha roof, or zero, one or two rooms.
- Automatically included: destitute households or those living on alms, manual scavengers, primitive tribal groups, and legally released bonded labourers.
- Beneficiaries come from the SECC 2011 and Awaas+ lists and a new Awaas+ 2024 survey, and are verified by the Gram Sabha.
Who cannot apply
- Households living in a house with a pucca roof and/or pucca walls, or with more than 2 rooms.
- Households owning a motorised three- or four-wheeler.
- Households owning mechanised three- or four-wheeler agricultural equipment.
- Households with a Kisan Credit Card with a credit limit of ₹50,000 or more.
- Households with any member who is a government employee.
- Households with a non-agricultural enterprise registered with the government.
- Households where any member earns more than ₹15,000 a month.
- Households paying income tax or professional tax.
- Households owning 2.5 acres or more of irrigated land, or 5 acres or more of unirrigated land.
- The UTs of Delhi, Chandigarh and Puducherry do not implement PMAY-G.
Documents usually needed
- Aadhaar: the Awaas+ 2024 survey uses Aadhaar-based e-KYC with face authentication.
- A bank or post office account to receive the money.
How to apply
- States/UTs are running a new survey through the Awaas+ 2024 mobile app to find eligible households; surveys are done by pre-registered surveyors.
- Eligible households can also use the 'Self-Survey' option in the Awaas+ 2024 app.
- The list of beneficiaries is verified by the Gram Sabha before houses are sanctioned.
Sources
Checked against these official pages on 26 September 2026. Rules and amounts change — if the official page says something different, it is right and we are out of date.
- Cabinet approves implementation of PMAY-G during FY 2024-25 to 2028-29 (PIB, 9 Aug 2024)
- Automatic exclusion criteria for PMAY-G beneficiaries (PIB, 3 Dec 2024)
- Expansion of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Gramin (PIB, 21 Mar 2025)
- Beneficiaries of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Rural) (PIB, 21 Mar 2025)
- Introduction of AwaasPlus app under PMAY-G (PIB, 5 Aug 2025)
- Construction of Houses under PMAY-G (PIB, 12 Aug 2025)
- Union Budget 2026-27: Rural Transformation through Decentralization (PIB, 13 Feb 2026)
- Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Rural: Building a Better Future for Rural India (PIB backgrounder, 19 Nov 2024)