Cuttack: The civic body has started a survey to identify beneficiaries under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban), an ambitious mission of the Centre to provide pucca houses to all by 2022.

The project will cover 103 urban local bodies in the state where more than two lakh urban poor will get affordable houses.

The eligible people will get a loan of Rs 2 lakh at a reduced interest rate of less than seven per cent a year from the central government.

Municipal commissioner Bikash Ranjan Mohapatra said that a special team of the state government would undertake a demand survey and identify families living in the municipal area who are in need of affordable housing.

"The survey will bring out a list of potential beneficiaries of the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban). The data will be collated from each ward within the limits of the Cuttack Municipal Corporation. The data will then be subjected to approval of the state-level sanction-cum-monitoring committee (SLSMC)," Mohapatra said.

The beneficiary list sanctioned by the SLSMC will be then sent as a proposal to the Union ministry of housing and urban poverty alleviation for approval.

The surveyors will identify eligible residents in the 59 wards with the help of the respective councillors. "The process will be completed within a month," said the municipal commissioner.

Three types of persons are eligible for the scheme - slum dwellers, people from economic weaker section (EWS) with annual income of up to Rs 3 lakh per annum and people from lower income group (LIG) with annual income of up to Rs 6 lakh.