LIVE LABS
In a way, these projects will be incubation centres and our planners, architects, engineers and students will be able to learn and experiment with new technology. I urge all such universities and all engineering colleges across the country that professors involved in this field, faculty and students should make groups of 10-15 people who should go to these six sites for a week and study it thoroughly. The people of our universities across the country should visit these pilot projects which are in a way incubators and study about the technology.
Hon’ble Prime Minister
Light House Projects
Light house projects (LHPS) being constructed at Agartala, Ranchi, Lucknow, Indore, Rajkot and Chennai are the first of their kind in the country to demonstrate use of globally available proven innovative technologies in mass housing. These technologies are new to the country with limited use in the construction sector.
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) is promoting these LHPS as live laboratories for different aspects of transfer of technology to the field, which includes planning, design, production of components, construction practices, and testing.
The primary goal of making these LHPS as live laboratories is to encourage large scale citizen participation and create technical awareness for on-site learning, multi-stakeholder consultation, finding ideas for solutions, learning by doing, experimentation and encouraging innovation, thereby mainstreaming the globally identified proven innovative technologies under GHTC-India in the Indian context.