Reframing Support System for Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana Gramin

This paper targets to evolve strategies to enhance the support system that can be extended for Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana Gramin (PMAYG) in the rural areas predominantly occupied by the Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG) of India. The need to enhance support system arise from the ground scenario of the Awaas Yojana where hundreds of houses are left incomplete at various stages of the housing project, primarily due to complex community behavior and various environmental reasons pertaining to the community and the region. Complex community behavior can be understood with respect to their differing ideologies in life, different sets of skills and lack of faith in the mainstream due to their historical exploitation. Further, various environmental reasons such as low literacy level, extreme poverty and constant debt risk put the housing on the low priority agenda. Hence, these variations increase their vulnerability to deviate from the goal of completion of the housing project. Therefore, this research and its findings attempts into improving the support system to cater to the unique community requirements through housing project flow analysis, behavior analysis as well as the environmental analysis of the targeted beneficiary in the region focused on the PVTG of Odisha. The case community for the purpose of the study has been taken as Juang community. The paper targets to calculate the current probability of the beneficiary to complete the project based on the ground scenario and then work out the increased probability to complete the project by change in the community behavior and environment by designing specific support system.