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The ministry of rural development is aiming to complete the construction of 10 million houses for the rural poor by December 2018 three months in advance of the March 2019 deadline set by the government. Some 5.6 million people were sanctioned houses under the programme with the government using data from the 2011 Socio-Economic Caste Census and gram sabha (village council) records. As on record one million houses had been completed and another three million were in various stages of construction.