The development of more than 20 lakh reasonable houses for urban poor in 4,720 urban areas and towns has been affirmed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (Urban) propelled two years back, Union Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said on Monday.

The size of lodging action has grabbed in the three long stretches of the Narendra Modi government. The hugeness of this size of lodging action is set apart by the way that the past UPA administration had affirmed the development of just 13,82,768, houses amid its 10-year administer, he said.

"On the off chance that something that had been done in 10 years by others could be accomplished in just shy of three years, I think it is adequate proof on ground of being a legislature with a distinction," the clergyman was cited as saying in an announcement.

Naidu named the objective of guaranteeing lodging for all by 2020 as a "testing undertaking" and expected the political and regulatory administrations in the states and urban communities to meet the challenge at hand.

"The Central government has done all that it could do through setting up an empowering biological community and will satisfy its responsibility of focal help," he said.