On Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the Light House Project under the Global Housing Technology Challenge-India, which is a programme that seeks to build over 1,000 houses in 12 months. PM Modi used drones to review projects across the country.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the foundation stone on January 1 for the affordable housing program and said that the project was driven by modern technology and innovative processes, which seeks to build over a thousand houses each across 6 sites and across in 6 states within 12 months.
He said that the houses that were being built under the program would take lesser time to build and would be affordable, resilient, and comfortable. Adding to that, he said that construction practices from France, Germany, and Canada would be followed and put into practice.
The Light House Project was being constructed at Indore, Rajkot, Chennai, Ranchi, Agartala, and Lucknow.
In Indore, the project would not have brick or mortar walls, instead, a prefabricated sandwich panel system would be used and the houses under the program in Rajkot would be built using a French Technology, the monolithic concrete construction technology using tunnels would be used and the houses would be more capable to withstand disasters.
In Lucknow, a Canadian Technology was being used in which plaster and paint would no longer be required in construction, instead, the houses would be built from already prepared walls for a faster construction process, and the construction of these would be done in Chenna using the US and Finland’s precast concrete system for faster and cheaper construction. Whereas in Ranchi, the use of a German 3D construction system would be used to build the houses and each room would be separately made and then the entire structure would be added just as Lego block toys. The houses were being built in Agartala with the use of steel frames which was a New Zealand’s Technology that could withstand major earthquakes.
These thousands of cheaper and faster housing constructions would be used as incubation centers for the Indian Planners, engineers, architects, and students for learning and experimenting with the new technology.