CM Bhupendra Patel Highlights PMAY Home for Junagadh Family
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A young family in Junagadh, Gujarat no longer goes to sleep fearing their roof might collapse — and Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel wants the country to know why. On Friday, 25 September 2026, CM Patel shared the story of Sushant Sondarva and his family, whose life changed after they received assistance under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) — crediting Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making it happen.
From a crumbling house to a pucca home in Junagadh
In his post, CM Patel wrote in Gujarati: 'પોતાનું પાકું મકાન એ માત્ર ઈંટોની દીવાલ નથી, પણ પરિવારની સુરક્ષા અને શાંતિનો આધાર છે' — 'A home of one's own is not merely walls of brick, but the foundation of a family's security and peace.' The Sondarva family, he said, once lived under the constant dread of their house collapsing. Today, sheltered under a solid roof, they face rain, heat, and cold without fear.
The family's gratitude, Patel noted, is directed squarely at Prime Minister Modi. They are 'wholeheartedly thanking Modi ji for the joy of receiving their dream home,' the Chief Minister wrote. The post was tagged under #SevaSankalpAbhiyan and #SevaKiKahani — hashtags the BJP has used to document welfare delivery stories ahead of and during significant political milestones.
PMAY's decade of pucca-housing push
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana was launched in 2015 to provide permanent, weather-proof housing to eligible poor households across rural and urban India. The scheme provides financial assistance directly to beneficiaries to construct or upgrade their homes to pucca standard — concrete structures that can withstand the elements. Gujarat has been an active implementer, with state officials regularly spotlighting individual beneficiary stories as proof of ground-level delivery.
25 years of service — the political subtext
CM Patel's closing line carries deliberate weight. He described the 'sense of security and peace on the faces of beneficiaries' as 'the true capital of the Honourable Prime Minister's 25 years of public service.' That figure — 25 years — anchors to Modi's entry into elected public life as Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2001, framing a quarter-century arc from state governance to national welfare transformation. It is the kind of milestone the BJP's communication machinery does not let pass quietly.
For the Sondarva family in Junagadh, the politics may be secondary. A pucca wall between them and the monsoon is not. That gap — between policy announcement and lived reality — is exactly what this post is designed to close, one story at a time.