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Distribution of Free House Sites to Scheduled Caste/Other Economically Backward Classes
PuducherryIndividualFamilyState/ UTNo start date
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What this is

Through this scheme, the homeless poor Scheduled Caste people, and other Economically backward class people, who meet the eligibility criteria, are provided housing sites to enable them to construct their own houses. Approximately 11,000 persons so far have benefitted from this scheme.

In detail

Launched in 1981, the scheme “Distribution of Free House Sites to Scheduled Caste/Other Economically Backward Classes” by the Adi Dravidar Welfare Department, Government of Puducherry was introduced to distribute free house sites to Scheduled Caste and Other Economically Backward Classes. Through this scheme, the homeless poor Scheduled Caste people, and other Economically backward class people, who meet the eligibility criteria, are provided housing sites to enable them to construct their own houses. Approximately 11,000 persons so far have benefitted from this scheme.

Who qualifies

  • The applicant should be a citizen of India.
  • The applicant should be a native or a permanent resident of the Union Territory of Pondicherry.
  • The annual family income should not exceed ₹24,000.
  • The applicant should have attained the age of 18 years.
  • The applicant should be a homeless person.
  • No member of the family of the applicant should own a house/house site.
  • The applicant should have a bonafide intention to construct a house within 2 years.

What you get

Distribution of free house sites to Scheduled Caste/Other Economically Backward Classes.

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Documentation completeness
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Eligibility published here463 characters
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Benefit amount published hereamount or quantity stated
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Description more than a name286 characters
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Implementing agency published herefield absent from the record
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How to apply published hereoffline mode declared, no URL needed
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Start date published herenot published
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End date published hereno end date recorded, so indefinite by omission
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Stored links well-formedall parse
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Not expired while still listedno end date
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Provenance

Every field above, and where it came from
schemeNameDistribution of Free House Sites to Scheduled Caste/Other Economically Backward ClassesmyScheme · 2026-09-02
schemeOpenDate...not published at source
schemeCloseDate...not published at source
nodalMinistryName...myScheme · 2026-09-02
dbtSchemeFalsemyScheme · 2026-09-02
achievement data...no source publishes this for any central scheme