Gramin

PMAY Gramin: rural housing assistance and how the list is drawn

पीएमएवाई ग्रामीण: सहायता राशि और सूची कैसे बनती है

Last reviewed: 11 November 2026

PMAY Gramin — officially Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana–Gramin — is the rural housing scheme of the Ministry of Rural Development. It has been implemented from 1 April 2016, as a restructuring of Indira Awaas Yojana. Its aim is to help eligible rural households, including those who are houseless or living in a kutcha or dilapidated house, to build a pucca house with basic amenities.

The Government has approved a further phase from 2024–25 to 2028–29 (until March 2029) to support two crore additional houses at the existing unit assistance rates. This page sets out those official amounts, how beneficiaries are chosen, and where to look up a name. This website does not host a beneficiary list and does not take applications.

What PMAY Gramin is

A PMAY Gramin house should be at least 25 square metres, including a space for hygienic cooking — larger than the 20 square metres used under the earlier rural scheme. Families are expected to build with local materials and with trained masons, and official material describes a choice of house designs that can suit the region rather than a single standard concrete plan.

Money is paid to the beneficiary, typically through direct benefit transfer, and construction is monitored with geo-tagged photographs at stages of the work. The State or Union Territory government is the primary implementing authority on the ground.

As a dated official snapshot, a Rajya Sabha reply published by the Press Information Bureau on 31 July 2026 reported a cumulative target of 4.18 crore houses allocated under PMAY Gramin, 3.92 crore sanctioned and 3.11 crore completed, with 1.06 crore remaining against allocated targets. Those numbers change. For the current position, use the official portal.

Unit assistance in plain and hill / North-Eastern areas

The official unit assistance, retained for the additional two crore houses, is:

The States and Union Territories in the ₹1.30 lakh band are: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh. Every other State and Union Territory is in the ₹1.20 lakh plain-area band under those official statements.

Each State and Union Territory is listed with the official unit-assistance rate and the Centre–State funding pattern named in official releases, together with the ₹12,000 toilet convergence through Swachh Bharat Mission–Gramin and the 25 square metre minimum size. Source: the official PMAY-G about page and Press Information Bureau notes on unit assistance.

A worked example: a family in a plain-area village in Odisha, once sanctioned, is in the ₹1.20 lakh unit-assistance band, with the Centre and the State sharing that assistance in the 60:40 pattern published for the rest of the States. A family in a village in Meghalaya is in the ₹1.30 lakh band, with the 90:10 North-Eastern sharing pattern. The table is not a decision on whether a particular household has been selected — selection follows the official lists and the Gram Sabha.

House size, toilet convergence and other linkages

In addition to the unit assistance, official releases state that ₹12,000 is provided for construction of a toilet through convergence with Swachh Bharat Mission–Gramin. Piped drinking water is described through convergence with the Jal Jeevan Mission and related schemes, electricity through the relevant power schemes, and an LPG connection through the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana or other relevant schemes. Official material also describes the inclusion of women members of beneficiary households in self-help groups.

The official about page states that a beneficiary is entitled to 90 or 95 person-days of unskilled work from MGNREGS for construction of the house. A Press Information Bureau release of 31 July 2026 refers to “prescribed person-days” of unskilled wage employment at prevailing wage rates through convergence with MGNREGS or VB G-RAM G. The current entitlement follows the prescribed parameters published by the Ministry.

A Press Information Bureau feature of 19 November 2024 also described an institutional loan facility, with a loan of up to ₹70,000 at a 3 per cent reduced interest rate and a maximum principal of ₹2 lakh for the subsidy. Treat that as a facility described in that official feature, and confirm the current product with the official portal or the implementing bank — it is not a substitute for the unit assistance itself.

How beneficiaries are identified

PMAY Gramin does not use the urban EWS, LIG and MIG income slabs as its starting point. Eligible households are identified from housing-deprivation parameters in the Socio Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 and from the finalised Awaas+ survey lists. Those lists are then verified by the Gram Sabha, with an appellate process for grievances.

The universe of eligible households includes people who are houseless and households living in a zero-, one- or two-room house with kutcha walls and a kutcha roof, after the prescribed exclusion process. Official material describes priority for houseless households and then for households with fewer rooms, and a highest priority within those groups for categories of compulsory inclusion set out in SECC (including, as described in a November 2024 official feature, destitute households or those living on alms, manual scavengers, particularly vulnerable tribal groups, and legally released bonded labourers). Further ranking may use a deprivation score from socio-economic parameters such as the absence of an adult aged 16 to 59, a female-headed household with no adult male, the absence of a literate adult above 25, a household with a disabled member and no able-bodied adult, and landless households dependent on casual manual labour.

A November 2024 official feature also described a reduction of exclusion criteria from 13 to 10, including a monthly-income threshold of ₹15,000 and the removal of some earlier asset tests such as ownership of a motorised two-wheeler. Those details should be read with that official date. They are not a do-it-yourself test that replaces survey and Gram Sabha verification, and this website will not collect your income or asset details to “decide” a rural sanction.

Awaas+ 2024

As official permanent wait lists from SECC 2011 and the earlier Awaas+ 2018 survey have been used, the Government approved an update to identify additional eligible rural households with modified exclusion criteria. The Awaas+ 2024 mobile application was launched on 17 September 2024. Official statements describe both an assisted survey through pre-registered surveyors and a self-survey option, so that eligible households are not left out. Being surveyed is not the same as being sanctioned. Follow official instructions on the rural portal and through your Gram Panchayat.

Funding pattern between the Centre and the States

Official releases describe the following sharing of the unit assistance:

• 60:40 (Centre:State) in plain areas, for the rest of the States.
• 90:10 for North-Eastern and Himalayan States. Official text names the North-Eastern States and the Himalayan States of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
• 100 per cent Central funding for Union Territories without a legislature.

Ladakh is listed for the ₹1.30 lakh unit assistance and is also a Union Territory without a legislature, so official funding for Ladakh is described as 100 per cent Central. For Delhi and Puducherry, the unit assistance is the plain-area rate of ₹1.20 lakh. Rural releases do not state a 90:10 share for them. A 90:10 list that includes Delhi and Puducherry appears in the urban assistance table, which is a different scheme. Confirm the current share for any Union Territory on the official portal if it is not named in the rural funding sentences above.

Official list and beneficiary search

To see whether a name is on the official list, use the government portal at https://pmayg.dord.gov.in/. Official pages list a “Panchayat Wise permanent wait List” and a “Search IAY/PMAY-G Beneficiary Details” service. A step-by-step walkthrough is on how to check the PMAY Gramin list. You can also find official PMAY-G services on UMANG.

This website will not ask for a registration number, an Aadhaar number or an OTP, and it will not offer a downloaded “2026 list PDF”.

Related pages: eligibility, documents, status, and the home overview.

Official unit assistance by State and Union Territory

The figures below are the national unit-assistance rates published by the Government, together with the Centre–State funding pattern where official releases name it. A State may still add its own top-up. Selection, sanction and the timing of instalments are decided through the official process, not by this table.

Last reviewed: 11 November 2026. If a later official release changes a rate, follow the official portal.