“Ensuring mass scale up and success of low cost/ mass housing projects by implementation of approved new technologies and by integrating national and state highways with the housing projects”

Abstract

The Indian economy needs to control rapidly the rising housing costs which are fuelled by rising building material prices and escalating land prices. Without these things in control, housing could be a dream undelivered for millions of Indians, despite massive efforts by the Government on this front.
This paper presents the way forward considering the developments taking place in technology for mass housing, the developments in other infrastructure areas such as the highways, and the need to create a new set up that will ensure strategic and collaborative methods to actually deliver mass housing in India. In the past, India has built homes using tried-and-true techniques, but this has led to the use of outdated techniques and the loss of benefits from new technologies. When India started a massive project to create affordable housing, it was clear that something needed to change. However, without an organised support for the technologies selected by the Government, low cost/ mass housing would not succeed in a major way across India as it needs the involvement of approved technology providers, developers, and contractors. Given that 42% of India &  population will reside in urban areas by 2030, it will be crucial for India to expand its urban infrastructure as well as create satellite cities and suburbs to support the country's population shift to cities. This needs
government support in terms of land & high-rise buildings at a fast pace- all which is possible using new technologies which ensure much speedier construction than the normal.