Friday 31 July 2015

UP Govt focus on new technology for Community Housing Projects

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Akhilesh Yadav has said that the state government has taken a decision to form an inter-departmental committee for community housing projects to assimilate new technology, in consonance to the recommendations made by the Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council. This committee would be formed from the executing agencies and departments related to building construction.

The chief minister highlighted these points in a letter written to the Union Urban Development, Housing and Parliamentary Affaires Minster, M. Venkaiah Naidu. The chief minister has also emphasised on how the inter-departmental committee would review and inspect buildings in various states with regards to the Council's recommendations on technology.

The committee would also give its recommendations with regards to assimilation of techniques in building and construction related departments, development authorities and Housing and Development Board. Yadav instructed various development authorities and the Housing and Development Board to get EWS (economically weaker sections) and LIG (lower income group) houses constructed on priority. The committee, with this in mind, would also review on whether the new technologies were more cost-effective than the conventional methods of construction or not.

Based on the recommendations of the committee the state government would take a decision as warranted, which would then be implemented by all agencies involved in building and construction and the private builders. It may be noted here that the Union Minister had written to the UP Chief Minister with regards to assimilation and adoption of new technologies as recommended by the Council.

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