Wrapping up the Debate

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National Conference on Affordable Housing for
All June 2, 2007, Mumbai
Wrapping up the Debate
Dr. H.S. Anand Secretary Ministry of Housing
Urban Poverty Alleviation Government of India
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Incentivisation of RD

• Besides developing several new alternatives
  including use of agro-industrial wastes, the RD
  efforts have helped in improving performance of
  traditional materials and in formulating Indian
  Standards, Specifications and Codes for
  materials, processes, components, planning
  efficiency, safety comfort, design and
  construction aspects of building.
• Building construction being a very conservative
  and widely fragmented trade, the pace for
  adoption of new developments to make a
  significant impact on large scale is not that
  fast as desired.

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Lab to Prototype Development

• Upscaling of available RD results through
• evaluation of bench level results, prototype
  development of production processes,
• identification development of suitable
  machinery and formulation of technology packages,
  
• develop process technologies with required inputs
  from industrial and design engineering,
• setting up pilot projects and plants,
• transfer of proven technologies

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Techno Financial Feasibility of Prototypes

• Develop Techno-Economic Feasibility Reports on
  innovative and cost effective technologies for
  different levels of investment and production.

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Large Scale Application of Low Cost Technologies

• To embark upon the field level application of
  innovative building materials and technologies by
  way of their implementation in housing projects
  by the construction agencies in public and
  private sector.

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Fiscal Incentives for Low Cost Housing
Technologies

• Government of India provided several fiscal
  incentives by exempting production of new
  materials from levy of excise duty and custom
  duty since 1991 till 2006.
• With the incentives given in recent past it has
  become possible to promote large number of
  environment friendly and energy efficient
  materials by attracting investment from the
  private sector for establishing production units.
• Continuation of these duty concessions are
  essential for promoting use of innovative housing
  technologies.

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Capacity Building Certification

• Capacity building by organising training
  programmes, workshop and EDPs in the field of
  innovative building materials and safer
  construction technologies for architects,
  engineers, supervisors, entrepreneurs, artisans,
  builders, workers, etc.
• This helps not only in the dissemination of
  technologies but also increases the confidence
  level of practising professionals and the
  end-users in the field level applications.
• Develop certified construction workforce for
  quality construction.

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Aesthetics in Low Cost Technologies
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Aesthetics in Low Cost Technologies
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Most materials have their own special
characteristics and if used honestly and simply
they contribute to the looks of a building merely
from their colour, their texture and the pattern
formed by joining them together. There is no need
to cover them with costly finishes. Let a brick
wall look like brick wall and a stone wall like a
stone wall. Concrete should look like concrete
and not plastered or painted to look like
marble. ....... Laurie Baker
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Thank you