evidence: That’s the big number Prime Minister Narendra Modi kept touting during a virtual event on Saturday. He noted that the government had built 3.5 crore pukka houses in the past few years. And he credited the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana scheme for catalysing this change. [...] Take urban centres for instance. As of February 2022, out of the 1.14 crore houses that were sanctioned under the scheme, only 50% are now completed. [...] In the rural areas, the target was to construct 2.95 crore houses by 2022. But as of September, we’re currently short of the target by 30%.