Or a “ Mirage in Maharashtra “ ?
It is difficult to decide going by following (
unbelievable ) news report :
State
to build 8.82 LAKH houses for homeless in 100 days (
Hindustan Times / 22 Nov )
Extract :
The Maharashtra government on Friday
launched an ambitious scheme of building more than 8.82 lakh houses for the
homeless people residing in rural parts of the state and has set a target of
constructing these homes within 100 days by February 28, 2021.
The homes will
be built by amalgamating many schemes being run by the state and the Centre.
Named Maha Awas Yojana, the ₹4,000-crore scheme was launched by chief minister
(CM) Uddhav Thackeray on Friday. He also directed the concerned officials to
ensure that the homes are of good quality.
“All the officials must ensure that the houses should be pucca and
of good quality. They should be so ideal and beautiful that people from other
states would come to see them,” the CM said while launching the scheme.
He said that the government has made several changes in Maha Awas
Yojana to ensure it is a complete
package. “We will not only give grants to people for building houses, but
will also see that they get land and have basic amenities such as toilets by
ensuring loans from banks,” Thackeray said.
Rural development minister Hasan Mushrif said,
[ hasanmushriffoundation@gmail.com
]
“We
have set a target to build 882,135 houses by February 28 with an expenditure of
₹4,000 crore. We will be providing land to those who don’t have any and will
also regularise illegal encroachment on government plots under the scheme. We
want to ensure that not a single family is left homeless in rural parts of
Maharashtra.”
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Summarizing :
Ø That
is building 8,820 “ houses “ EVERY SINGLE DAY for 100 days ( from today till 28
Feb 2021 )
Ø Cost
of each house = Rs 4.53 lakh ( Rs 4000 crore for 8.82 lakh houses )
Ø No
mention of “ Cost per Sq ft “
Ø Apparently
, it is “ people “ who will build houses, govt will only provide “ grants “
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I have no idea what that “ Complete Package “ consists of , nor
could I find any details online
However, some 5 YEARS back , I did send following e mail proposal to
the then Minister for Housing ( Maharashtra ) ,
Shri Waikar:
Extract from my above E Mail :
Here are my few suggestions that Shri Waikar may want to
consider :
# SPECIFICATIONS
* Carpet Area = 400 sq ft
* Selling Price = Rs 10 lakhs
( Rs 2,500 / sq ft )
# LOCATIONS
* Building Clusters to be located
on the outskirts of cities ( important )
* 100 Clusters of 50 buildings (
each with 10 floors*10 flats/floor )
# LEGAL FRAME-WORK
* A Special Purpose Vehicle ( SPV
) , named,
Dream House Private Limited ( DHPL )
# INDUSTRY STATUS
* Infrastructure Industry with 100
% FDI thru automatic route
# SPV OWNERSHIP
* 10 % equity by Maha
Govt ( in lieu of land )
Maha Govt to pass on this equity to land-owners
* 90 % equity by WinSun Decoration Design Engineering
Co ( China )
# SHARE CAPITAL
* Rs 10,000 Crores
# ROLE OF MAHARASHTRA GOVERNMENT
* Acquire land (
under modified Land Acquisition Act )/hand over to SPV
* Comprehensive Town
Planning of each Cluster like a Smart City
* Building Design /
Drawings / Material Specs
* Quality Control / Material Testing Lab at
each site
* A Project
Monitoring Team at each site / Use of PERT
* Site
surveillance using CCTV cameras
* Make available land for
setting up 3D House Printing factories
* Interconnection of
site offices with HQ , thru VPN
* Blanket
permissions ( IOD / NOC etc ) issued in advance
* OC based on certification from
Site Project Manager
* Maintenance of
flats thru Coop Societies of each cluster
# COMMERCIALS
* Neither SPV , nor Maha
Govt to pay any royalty to WinSun for
transfer
of technology
* Maha Govt to act as the
agency for allotment of flats to eligible public
in
Maharashtra thru a " Lottery System "
* Selling Price of flats
will be fixed by the Maharashtra Government
once a year ,
based on a pre-agreed cost - escalation formula, which
will be
explained in detail on SPV web site
Calculation
of each upward revision shall be made public
* SPV to hand over
possession of flat to the allotee upon receipt of
full payment
* SPV shall not be
permitted direct selling of any flat in Maharashtra
* SPV would be free to set
up factories in other States and be free to
sell
flats built there, thru Open Market Sale
# ROLE OF WinSun
* Setting up of 20 factories for 3D Printing
of flats
* Assembling of 3D printed
flats at sites
* Transfer of 3D house
printing technology to Indian project managers /
site engineers
/ construction workers
# TECHNOLOGY
* 3D ( house ) Printing
Technology developed / patented by WinSun
# WHY WinSun ?
On 29 March 2014 , WinSun constructed
TEN , 3D printed houses ( 200 sq
meter each ) in Shanghai, each costing $ 4,800 ( approx Rs 3 lakh ! )
# On 17 July 2015 , using
its 3D printing technology , WinSun built a 2 storey
villa , in just 3 HOURS !
# WinSun holds 98 patents for construction
materials
# For 3D printing of houses , WinSun , mostly
uses recycled construction
materials
# 3D house-printing technology saves,
* 30% -60 % of building
materials
* 70 % of production time
* 80 % of
construction cost
# Egypt Government has placed on WinSun , an order
for supplying 20,000 pre-
fabricated , 3D printed houses
# In Egypt , WinSun will establish 12 Dream
Factories ( to build pre-fabricated
houses ) , within 2 years
These factories will mostly use desert sand as its main construction material
,
which was found ideal for 3D printing of houses !
# In next 3 years , WinSun will set up ( in JV with
local parties ) , similar
factories in 20 countries , including Saudi Arabia , UAE , Qatar , Mexico , S.
Korea , Russia , Morocco , Tunisia , and USA
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Chinese 3D printed house company WinSun has signed a $1.45bn agreement with a Saudi Arabian contractor that could see 1.5 million affordable homes printed in the Gulf kingdom, which is struggling to cope with a housing shortage.
Shanghai-based 3D printing company WinSun is marketing printed, while-you-wait isolation pods for people diagnosed with Covid-19.
Each 10-sq-m “isolation house” can be printed in two hours.
One printing machine can produce 15 rooms a day, and they cost about $4,000 apiece, Winsun chairman Ma Yihe said.
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As someone has said :
" It is OK to build castles in the air , as long as you
know how to put foundation
underneath , later on "
Even if you are dreaming of building 5 lakh castles !
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Dear Shri Hasan Mushrifji,
To
convince your Cabinet Colleagues re viability of my proposal, you may want to
forward to them following link :
With regards,
