• Dr.R.V.Gangshetty

The survival of the human being largely depends on fulfillment of basic needs. So far as the basic necessities of a person are concerned, he needs food, clothes and shelter to live in. Indira Awaas Yojana (IAY), a flagship scheme of the Ministry of Rural Development has since inception been providing assistance to BPL families who are either houseless or having inadequate housing facilities for constructing a safe and durable shelter. This effort has been part of a larger strategy of poverty eradication effort, supporting the development of an environmentally sound habitat with adequate provisions for incremental expansion and improvement. The commitment of “shelter for all” gained further momentum when India became a signatory to the Istanbul Declaration on Human Settlement in June 1996 recognizing thereby the need for access to safe and healthy shelter and basic services for a person’s physical, psychological, social and economic wellbeing. The object of the habitat approach is to achieve adequate shelter for all, especially the underprivileged urban and rural people through an enabling approach leading to development, improvements and access to basic facilities like infrastructure, safe drinking water, sanitation, electricity etc. In India a substantial proportion of the households either do not own house or have inadequate housing. As the population of the country is increasing rapidly, the number of houseless families is increasing at an alarming rate. India is the second largest country in the world as far as the population is concerned. For such a huge country, to study the availability of housing condition of the people is always a daunting task.

Yojana, Inadequate, People and House

"AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF INDIRA AWAS YOJANA : WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VIJAYAPURA TALUK", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no.11-19, March-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903302.pdf

"AN ECONOMIC STUDY OF INDIRA AWAS YOJANA : WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO VIJAYAPURA TALUK", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 3, page no. pp11-19, March-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1903302.pdf