India ka DNA 2019 conclave: 'Housing for all by 2022' mission will be completed before time, says Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri

The first session of the 'India Ka DNA 2019' conclave was held at Hotel Taj Palace in New Delhi.

New Delhi: Zee Media hosted the 'India Ka DNA 2019' conclave on Wednesday where top politicians and business leaders discussed the current situation of the country and deliberated on the achievements of the government in the last four years. The first session of the conclave was held at Hotel Taj Palace in New Delhi.

In this session, business leaders and experts discussed on a wide range of issues that included digital India, farming sector and affordable housing.

Here are the updates:

20 June 2018

12:04 IST

India Ka DNA 2019 Conclave: The session on Indian economy gets over. Stay tuned for the second part of the conclave that will see top politicians exchange their views on a wide range of issues.

11:59 IST

The development narrative in 2019 is election dominated. While elections are held every five years, schemes are made for overall growth. But sometimes criticism to government projects are motivated.

The scheme that we started in 2014-15 will be completed before 2019. So schemes are not election driven. I firmly believe that all the targets will be met before time. You can check it based on figures and statistics.

11:50 IST

The governments has strong intent to achieve its Housing for All mission by 2022 by enabling home ownership for every Indian. Till May 31, 4.75 million homes had been sanctioned. 3-5 lakh homes are being sanctioned every month. And by June, 51 million we will have sanctioned homes. So going by this rate, I think we can achieve housing for all scheme target by the third quarter of 2019

11:35 IST

It is very difficult to define affordable housing. We are subjecting ourselves to annual report cards and we have a good story to tell.

Our Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna has three sections –People belonging to Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), Low-Income Group (LIG), Middle-Income Group-I and Middle-Income Group-II

11:34 IST

Hardeep Singh Puri, Union minister for housing and urban affairs to discuss on affordable housing

11:34 IST

Conclaves like the one hosted by Zee Media will help also help in public participation: Geetambar Anand

11:30 IST

Contribution from every counter is required to fulfill the affordable housing dream. It could be from policy front, demand-suppy side and participation from the developers side as well, says Mudassir Zaidi

11:27 IST

A lot of development is taking in the Sub-urbs. These developments are all under the affordable housing scheme. Tier 2 or tier 3 cities are more end-users driven cities: Anup Mittal

11:17 IST

We need to address a lot of value chains that includes funding affordable housing, Anup Mittal

11:04 IST

Experts on Real Estate talk on affordable housing

How will the dream of "affordable housing" come true? What are the new initiatives govt is taking?
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11:01 IST

We must recognise agriculture as an economic activity and not a political activity. Farmers will be benefited if we work on policies towards increasing their farm output

11:01 IST

In all the sectors, the pricing is fixed by the manufacturer. But farmers are not allowed to do this. I feel farmers should be allowed to fix their MSP price, Vijay Sardana

10:51 IST

DK Agarwal says there is a huge gap between price to consumers and price which a farmer gets. This gap has to be reduced.

10:46 IST

Vijay Sardana says, there are 3 types of cost --A2 or direct cost, labour cost and fixed cost. In our country everybody talks on affordable price for consumers, nobody talks about giving more benefits to farmers. Agriculture policy will be successful if you try to come out with a workable model where the consumer pays a little more and the farmer gets a little more

10:45 IST

Agricultural produce and livestock marketing act 2017 has been revolutionary in this front for farmers

10:44 IST

An efficient marketing structure is more important than Minimum Support Price (MSP). The APMC System has been monopolised. But the new policy on agricultural produce has curbed the cartelisation to some extent

10:43 IST

Ensuring a conducive market is another important factor that should be on focus. From farm harvest gate to the last consumer –the agri-logistics like storage, transportation, handling and processing –everything has to be in place

10:37 IST

RG Agarwal says water is a very important element of irrigation. It is important to ensure that farmer gets ample water supply for irrigating farmland. Our dependence on Monsoon can be reduced if we pay more attention on this front.

10:36 IST

RG Agarwal talks on improving farmers' contribution and key inputs required to double farmers' income

10:36 IST

In the past, people were only talking abot farmer's output growth. But Modi government has for the first time talked about farmer's income: DK Agarwal

10:31 IST

GDP growth or growth in technology is futile if farmers are not happy: Vijay Sardana

10:29 IST

10:28 IST

Vijay Sardana speaks on the issue of doubling farmers' income

10:22 IST

Eminent business personalities and specialists on farm sector to discuss major government schemes aimed at boosting farmers income, and also address farm sector issues

10:22 IST

Next up is the panel discussion on the achievements and future course of action on rural resurgence

10:13 IST

Shrivastava says, BSNL is trying to begin 5G services in India by 2020

10:11 IST

BSNL CMD Anupam Srivatsava speaks on digital dividend and changes that digital India has brought into the country