The
Union Home Minister Shri Rajnath Singh laid the foundation stone of the
Demonstration Housing Project by BMTPC (Building Materials & technology
Promotion Council) for Lucknow through video conferencing here today. Speaking
on the occasion, Shri Rajnath Singh said this BMPTC
project is a model housing project which will use ecofriendly materials and
innovative Technology to build houses for the poor.
Coming up at Aurangabad Jagir at Sarojini Nagar Tehsil in Lucknow
on 0.38 hectare land provided by the State Urban Development Authority (SUDA) of
the Uttar Pradesh state government, the BMTPC, an Autonomous organization under
Ministry of Housing and Urban poverty Alleviation, Government of India, has
undertaken construction of 40 dwelling units (Ground Floor+1). Each Unit having
built up area of 380 sq. feet, will consist of one living room, one bedroom,
kitchen, one separate bath and WC. The Demonstration Housing
Project will include onsite Infrastructure facilities like water supply, tube
well, sewerage system, drainage, concrete roads, interlocking tiles, boundary
wall and external electrification, etc. Aiming to popularize new and emerging disaster
resistant sustainable technologies in the construction sector, the
Demonstration Housing Project is expected to cost around Rs.3.6 crores.
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