The Chhattisgarh Housing Board has bagged the ‘National Hudco Design Award’ for outstanding work in the domain of Environment Management, Energy Conservation and adoption of 'Green Building Concept'.
Notably, this is the third consecutive award bagged by the Board within a span of a year at the national level.
Earlier, the Board had received the ‘Hudco Award’ and ‘EPC World Award’ in the area of affordable housing.
Board Chairman Subash Rao and Commissioner Sonmani Borah have received the award at the hands of Secretary, Union Urban Housing Ministry A K Mishra. Present on the occasion were Hudco Chairman V P Baligar and Additional Secretary Sushil Kumar, an official statement issued here on Thursday said.
According to Board Chairman Subash Rao, the national award is the result of the leadership displayed by Chief Minister Raman Singh in formulation of policies for making housing available to all classes of people in the State.
He said that the Board's implementation of social and affordable housing alongwith environmentally compliant housing projects are now being applauded at the national level.
Commissioner Sonmani Borah said that the Board had been successful in constructing houses at extremely low costs due to land provided at highly discounted rates for the poor on the initiative of the Chief Minister. He said that all the housing projects taken up by the Board contain eco-friendly sewerage treatment plant, solar energy system, under ground sewerage system and water harvesting system.
Bora said that the work of construction of one lakh housing units under the ‘Atal Vihar Yojana’ for the poor is moving at a fast pace .
He said that 84 per cent of the houses being constructed by the Board are for the poor and low income customers.
The 'National Design Award' received by the Board is for the ‘Green Building Concept’ adopted for the construction of the headquarters of Chhattisgarh State Electricity Regulatory Commission and CREDA.
The aforesaid buildings are being considered as ‘Net Affirmative Energy Building’. The Board had constructed the three storeied building while adopting the ‘green building concept’ in an area of 25,824 square feet while covering an area of 22,300 square feet at a cost of Rs3.72 crore.
The building, as per the official requirement, comprises construction area, parking lot, water supply facility, landscaping, lift, illumination, air conditioning besides other facilities.
The building is expected to conserve 45 per cent of energy during summer and 15 per cent in Autumn seasons as it had been constructed keeping in mind the need for ventilation, energy and direction of the wind when compared to conventional office buildings.