To provide architectural solutions to lower income group (LIG) people, the Forum of Architecture Alumni of CET, Bhubaneswar (FAACET) will organise an innovative Noble Affordable Knowledgeable Social Architecture (NAKSA) Camp at the Bhajan Mandap in Old Town area here on August 10 (Saturday).
The “NAKSA Camp”, a first of such effort by any architectural groups in Odisha, is expected be very helpful to lower income group people intending consult an architect to give architectural touch to their houses.
“The camp will also provide suggestions or guidance to people to apply for housing plan under the BMC/BDA and it will be a pilot project on August 10 for people under the Ekamra Assembly Constituency area. Later, it would be organised in other Assembly segments as well,’’ said FAACET advisor Akshay Beuria.
Social Security and Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Public Enterprises, Science and Technology Minister Ashok Chandra Panda will organise the camp. Beuria has requested the residents of the constituency to come in large numbers to the camp between 11 am and 2.30 pm so that members of the FAACET can extend their help to maximum number of people.
The theme of this year's FAACET meet is “Connect” and is scheduled for on Friday and Saturday. It has four sessions. In the first session an orphanage in the city would be given aid under the PRADAN programme.
The Jeevan Jyoti Charitable Trust has been identified by the FAACET team for PRADAN programme this year. The venue will be Jeevan Jyoti Charitable Trust at MIG-48, Kalinga Vihar, Patrapada, from 5 PM onwards on Friday.
The second session is a cricket match between the junior and senior members of the alumni scheduled on Saturday at Siksha O Anusandhan University (SOA) ground between 6 am and 10 am.The third session is the NAKSA Camp and the fourth session is more of an interactive session amongst the alumni members to be followed by cultural events at Hotel Padmaja Premium in the city.