In 2008, Mayawati launched, "Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji Shahri Garib Awas Yojna", a scheme for building low-cost housing colonies for urban poor with 90,000 low-cost homes under the first round of construction in different towns and cities across the state while a second and a third round were still underway when government ended in 2012 and next government scrapped the scheme including cutting down electricity of these colonies.