evidence: Just 4% houses built this fiscal year in PM Modi’s rural housing plan [...] About four out of every 100 houses targeted to be built this financial year under the Centre’s flagship rural housing scheme have been completed so far, according to government data. The lag is due to the Covid-19 lockdown, financial constraints and other issues, officials said. A senior official aware of the matter pointed out that the scheme, rolled out in November 2016, "has already completed 2.02 crore houses. And we are confident that we will cross the target of building 3 crore houses by March 2022, well before the deadline of August 2022."