Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Thursday, 13 August 2020

How to build Houses / Shelters, super-quick ?



And also super-cheap ?


That was the challenge that our Central Housing Ministry had thrown to the Construction Industry of the World, some 2 years ago


There is till date, no news which Construction technology of which company got selected as winner


That made me send following e mail to our Housing Minister , Shri Hardeep Singh Puriji





In that e-mail, I listed my earlier e mails ( list below ) where I had drawn attention of the Housing Ministry to a number of technologies


Today , I came across another source described below :




-          Which lists 45 different Design / Construction concepts for rapid / cheap buildings



List of my earlier mails :


     BuildingCastles in Air ?                            [  25  July  2015 ]

DREAM  HOUSE  BY 2020 ?                      [  01  Sept  2015  ]

FutureHome is Here !                               [  02 March  2017  ]

A Roof Over Every Head ?                         [  07  March  2017  ]

Plastic Skyscrapers ?                                 [  15  March  2017  ]

Claim is Credible , but ….                            [  11  Aug  2017  ]

Shelter@ Speed of Snail ? [ S 3 ]                 [  21  Sept  2017  ]

Did You Say “ Mission Mode “ ?                    [  11  Dec  2017 ]

How many will get ready by 2022 ?              [  01  Jan  2018  ]

    Construction Technologies From Everywhere    [25 Feb 2018 ]




Related Reading:

45 innovative solutions for beautiful, easy-to-build housing to help cities with the homelessness crisis 



Incidentally :

During the past 4 months , Central Government and various State Governments have managed to “ convert / re-purpose “, hundreds of open grounds and unused / sparsely used / occasionally used , buildings into temporary QUARANTINE CENTRES


Between them , these Centers might be capable of accommodating, a million persons ( just a bed )



I urge Shri Hardeep Singh Puriji to consider turning these into NIGHT SHELTERS for our millions of homeless / poor people ( with their small children ), who sleep on footpaths of our city streets, on rainy nights or during freezing cold nights ( of course, after Covid pandemic is under control and these Centers are no more required ) 


Before worrying about getting each such homeless street-dweller, a pucca house of his own ( is that target 2022 ? ) , why can’t we turn these quarantine centres into Night Shelters ?



For maintenance / security of these Night Shelters , please consider a " NIGHT SHELTER ADOPTION SCHEME " under which big companies can come forward and " adopt " a shelter


To motivate them , permit them to set-off / adjust the expenses incurred for maintenance / security, against their CSR obligation ( or as TAX DEDUCTIBLE EXPENSES ) - with an upper limit of Rs 12,000 per " Shelter Bed " per year 





Just imagine the nation-wide impact of PM Shri Modiji making this announcement from the ramparts of Lal Killa , in his address to the nation, tomorrow , our 73rd Independence Day ? 



With regards

Hemen Parekh  /  hcp@RecruitGuru.com  /  14  Aug  2020


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