Central government to finalize agency for EWS housing projects
The central government is expected to finalize on Tuesday an experiment on affordable housing in six cities, including Rajkot, with implementation of agencies as well as global technologies. These six cities were selected as ‘live laboratories’ for the pilot project to build 1,000 houses using innovative technologies that are low-cost, sustainable and disaster-resistant. Earlier this year, the urban development ministry’s technical evaluation committee had evaluated 54 proven technology providers with 32 new technologies for housing projects from 25 countries. Of these six technologies were finalized and the agencies had displayed houses they built using these technologies at IIT-Roorkee in March this year.
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