More than 8 lakh beneficiaries in Odisha are set to avail houses under the Pradhan MantriAwasYojana (PMAY) in the financial year 2021 – 2022! Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday (May 23) thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Rural Development Minister Narendra Singh Tomar for sanctioning 8,17,513 houses under the rural housing schemefor the beneficiaries in the state. Taking to Twitter, the Union Minister expressed his gratitude to the Prime Minister for helping the weaker sections by providing them necessary assistance for construction of houses in the times of a pandemic. Pradhan further mentioned that a total of 61.84 lakh houses have been sanctioned by PM Modi and Union Minister Narendra Tomar for beneficiaries across the country, fulfilling their dreams of a puccaghar.