‘Will ensure housing for all’: PM Modi lays basis stone of housing initiatives in six states

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday mentioned he’s assured his authorities will be capable of obtain the aim of guaranteeing housing for all. Laying the inspiration stone of Light House Projects (LHPs) below Global Housing Technology Challenge-India in six states, the residences below LHPs will take much less time to assemble, will likely be extra resilient, inexpensive and comfy. “Two crore houses have been constructed in villages and we will construct more at a faster speed. I am confident we will achieve the goal of ensuring housing for all,” he mentioned.
LHPs will likely be constructed at Indore, Rajkot, Chennai, Ranchi, Agartala and Lucknow, comprising about 1,000 homes at every location together with allied infrastructure services.
Criticising earlier governments, he mentioned at one time housing plans weren’t the precedence of the federal government, “The government did not care about the details and quality of construction. If the changes were not made, it would have been very difficult. Today, the country has chosen a different approach.”
He added the nation has bought new applied sciences for developing homes for the poor and center courses, and such initiatives are therefore sure to face out. “Why can’t we construct better houses, lasting houses, and that too, faster? This is the reason we took the housing technology challenge and I’m happy that 50 global players participated in it. And today, six projects are being launched,” he mentioned. “These technologies will reduce construction time and make available to the poor affordable and resilient houses. Today, these technologies are being deployed in a few cities. Tomorrow, they can be replicated in other cities of the country.”
He said that funding in infrastructure, particularly in housing, acts as force-multiplier. “Government is constantly giving a push to this sector,” he added.
With home costs skyrocketing in current days, folks’s goals of shopping for their homes have been shattered, he mentioned. “Their confidence was shaken whether they will be protected in case of dispute. Then interest on bank loans would make people develop cold feet.”
However, lakhs of homes have been constructed below Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), he mentioned. “Affordable Sustainable Housing Accelerators -India (ASHA-India) programme is being run in the country to promote research and startups in modern housing technology,” he added. Listing out the options of the homes, he mentioned, “Now you will see innovation in housing construction. It is now ensured that these houses for the poor have basic amenities like electricity, water and gas connection. To ensure transparency, these houses are being geo-tagged.”

He additionally underlined that the important thing to 1’s personal home can also be his or her key to a respectful life. “When one gets the key of home, it doesn’t open the door to just four walls but to a respectful life. It makes one self-confident and opens the door to his/her progress. The key also unlocks the door to one’s brain. So powerful is that key,” he mentioned.
He additionally touched upon the disaster the migrant labours confronted through the pandemic-induced lockdown and mentioned, “Covid-19 pandemic made us realise how important is the role of the migrant labourers for our nation. We have observed that they do not get accommodation at affordable rent in cities. Hence, we have launched an affordable rental housing project.”