Haryana to have housing training institute
Chandigarh,
Jan
25:
The
Hayrana
Housing
Board
has
planned
to
set
up
an
International
Standard
Housing
and
Human
Settlement
Institute
for
Training
and
Research
at
Gurgaon
to
impart
training
to
the
architects,
engineers,
project
managers
and
NGOs.
While giving this information here today, a spokesman of the Board said that this institute would impart training for capacity building as well as on human resource development and transfer of technologies by securing expertise and experience from similar institutions of India and abroad. Besides, the institute would also collaborate and network its activities with other national and international institutions for bringing innovative, cost effective technologies and best practices from other parts of the world in improving quality, safety and delivery of affordable houses.
He said that a laboratory would also be set up in this institution for carrying out testing of materials. An international standard consultancy firm had been engaged by the Board to prepare the detailed project report for setting up the institution, he informed.
He said that special attention had been extended to aesthetic approach of houses or flats to make them attractive. He informed that allottees of the housing schemes would be involved from the initial stage of construction of houses to ensure greater participation and quality control for consumer satisfaction.
He said the quality and the materials to be used in construction of houses had been made standardized. Besides, field laboratories were set up at the work sites of projects to ensure quality construction, he added.
While giving details about the construction activities, he said that the construction of 4196 houses at a cost of Rs 385.57 crores at Kurukshetra, Karnal, Sonipat, Madlauda, Bahadurgarh, Bhiwani, Gurgaon, Dharuhera and Faridabad were in progress. He said that about 61,375 houses of different categories had been constructed by the Board during the last about three years, out of which 43,997 houses were for economically weaker section (EWS) and lower income group (LIG) categories.
The spokesman said that 33 per cent reservation of the total houses or flats constructed by the Board had been provided to women applicants for the first time.
UNI