evidence: - The government set the ambitious target of building more than four crore new houses by 2022 - One crore rural houses to be built by March 2019 - 69 lakh rural houses, 40% of targets still to be met - 35% of the houses not complete even after two years of being sanctioned - Progress in urban areas is slower, only 12.4 lakh houses built till December 2018 [...] In rural areas, the government had set itself the goal of building 1 crore houses by March 2019. It is likely to miss this deadline. As of February 11, it has completed the construction of 69 lakh houses, with 40% of the target still pending. In urban areas, the urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri claimed in September that 50% of the target had been met. But the government’s website shows of the 1.2 crore urban houses it aims to build, 68.5 lakh houses have been sanctioned, and just 18% of the sanctioned houses have been built.