Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Friday laid the foundation for light house projects under the Global Housing Technology Challenge-India (GHTC-India) at six locations in six States including Indore in Madhya Pradesh through video conferencing. Prime Minister Shri Modi also announced the winners under the Affordable Sustainable Housing Accelerators-India (ASHA-India) and also gave annual awards for the year 2019 for excellence in implementation of Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana - Urban (PMAY-U) Mission. Madhya Pradesh was ranked second for remarkable work. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan received this award virtually by joining the programme organised in Indore.
January 1, 2021, the first day of the new year was a day full of achievements for the state under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban). Prime Minister Narendra Modi, laid the foundation stone of a light house project costing Rs 128 crore in Indore through a virtual programme. On the occasion, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Urban Development and Housing Minister Bhupendra Singh, Tourism Minister Usha Thakur, Minister of State for Urban Development and Housing O.P.S. Bhadoria, MP Shankar Lalwani, MLA Shri Tulsiram Silavat, Akash Vijayvargiya and Mahendra Hardia took part in the programme. Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri also took part in the program virtually.
Addressing the programme, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Madhya Pradesh on receiving the above award. He said that the use of new technology has been started in building houses for the homeless in the country. This will create quality housing in less cost and less time. Various innovations to use new technologies are being made.
He informed that the Light House Project is also a part of this. He said that 54 innovative housing construction technologies have been identified for innovative housing construction. He said that for the first time in the country, such a large number of light house projects (LHPs) will be utilized in the construction sector which give a remarkable display of alternative global technology, materials and processes. These are being constructed under GHTC-India, which envisages creating a holistic environment for adoption of innovative technologies in the field of housing construction. These projects will be completed much faster than the conventional style of brick and concrete construction. Apart from this, these houses will also be economical and durable with high quality.
Modi said that under this project, houses will be constructed through Prefabricated Sandwich Panel System at Indore, Monolithic Concrete Construction using Tunnel Formwork in LHP Rajkot, Precast Concrete Construction System, in the project of Chennai, 3D Volumetric Precast Concrete Construction System at LHP, Ranchi, Structural Steel Frame with light gauge steel infill panels in Agartala project and PVC Stay in Place Formwork System at LHP, Lucknow.