The move is set to bring down the monthly equated monthly installment (EMI) for the middle class by over Rs 2,000.
All middle class home buyers with annual incomes of above Rs 6 lakh and up to Rs 18 lakh per year will be eligible for receiving interest subsidy on housing loans taken in 2017 under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (Urban).
Interest subsidy will be provided on home loans for construction or purchase of house with carpet area of 90 square meters by those earning up to Rs 12 lakh per annum and of 110 sqm by those earning up to Rs 18 lakh per year.
No processing fee will be charged by banks or housing finance companies from the applicants under CLSS.
"Not only poor, but middle class is also on top of our PM's agenda. Middle income groups make substantial contribution to the economic growth of the country besides paying taxes and deserved support to fulfill the dream of owning a house which is a basic and genuine aspiration," said Naidu.
Prime minister Narendra Modi on December 31 announced the extension of CLSS to the middle class people, offering interest subsidy of 4% on housing loans of up to Rs 9 lakh of those with an income of Rs 12 lakh per year and of 3% on home loans of up to Rs 12 lakh of those earning Rs 18 lakh per year.
Housing loans above Rs 9 lakh and Rs 12 lakh will be at non-subsidised rates.
According to National Housing Bank MD and CEO Sriram Kalyanaraman, the interest subsidy of 4% under the scheme will bring down EMI by Rs 2,062 per month on a housing loan of Rs 9 lakh and interest subsidy of 3% will reduce the monthly outgo by Rs 2,019 on Rs 12 lakh loan, considering normal housing loan interest rate of 8.65%.
The scheme will be applicable just for one year starting January 1, 2017 and the government has allocated Rs 1,000 crore in Union Budget this year for the same.
"We may consider expending this MIG scheme based on the response and demand," informed Naidu.
The tenure of loan can be a maximum of 20 years or that preferred by the home buyer, whichever is lower.
The scheme gives preference to women with overriding preference to widows, single working women, people from scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, backward classes, differently abled and transgender people.
National Housing Bank (NHB) on Wednesday also signed memoranda of understanding with 45 housing finance companies, 15 scheduled banks, 2 regional rural banks, 1 cooperative bank, 4 small finance banks and 3 non-banking finance companies-micro finance institutions for implementation of CLSS(MIG) component of PMAY(Urban).
NHB and Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) have been designated as central nodal agencies for implementation of CLSS for both MIG and EWS/LIG who would reimburse interest subsidy to primary lending institutions.
The CLSS component of PMAY(Urban), launched in June 2015, was already applicable for the economically weaker sections (EWS) and low income group (LIG) with income of Rs 3 lakh and Rs 6 lakh per year, respectively. People in this group are getting interest subsidy of 6.5% on a home loan of up to Rs 6 lakh.
Source - ET Realty
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