Valmiki Ambedkar Awas Yojana (VAMBAY)

- The VAMBAY launched in December 2001 facilitates the construction and upgradation of dwelling units for the slum dwellers and provides a healthy and enabling urban environment through community toilets under Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan, a component of the scheme.
- The Central Government provides a subsidy of 50 per cent, the balance 50 per cent being arranged by the State Government.
- Since its inception Rs. 932·56 crore have been released as Government of India subsidy for the construction/up gradation of 4,59,728 dwelling units and 65,580 toilet seats under the scheme.
- VAMBAY was the fIrst scheme of its kind meant exclusively for slum dwellers with a Government of India subsidy of 50 per cent, the balance 50 per cent arranged by the State Government. VAMBAY, along with National Slum Development Programme (NSDP) , has been subsumed in Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme launched on December 3,2005 along with Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM).