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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