Mr Bhallavi, his wife, and their four school-age children have lived in a sun-drenched village in central Madhya Pradesh, India, for many years. Their home is a tiled shack. A kitchen, a few plastic chairs, two rope mattresses, and fraying clotheslines are all crammed into a narrow strip of mud-floored foyer.
The Bhallavi family was able to begin construction on a new home last year when they were granted 120,000 rupees ($1,445; £1,136) under a Prime Minister Narendra Modi government program, following a three-year wait.
Under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Prime Minister’s Housing Scheme), a rural public housing scheme, more than 25 million homes have been constructed since 2016.
