The Andhra Pradesh Government has decided to depute a technical team for studying the best practices adopting in the housing sector in China, Singapore and Hong Kong.
The team will study the best practices in terms of policies, programmes, technologies adopted, machinery deployed, trained manpower and other aspects.
The development comes in the light of the State government’s decision to construct a Greenfield capital at Amaravati as an economically vibrant city yet designed to suit the housing requirements.
The team will be headed by Housing Minister K. Mrunalini and will comprise Housing secretary Luv Agarwal and AP State Housing Corporation Chief Engineer Ch. Mallikarjuna Rao in addition to experts from outside.
Notable among these are Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council executive director Sailesh Kumar Agarwal and K. Rama Raju, managing director of prefab construction technology company Sqanda.
The government is expediting steps to relocate its headquarters to the capital region and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu himself had been camping at Vijayawada for most part of the week.
Deadline
As the October 22 deadline for the ground breaking ceremony of Amaravati approaching fast, the government had decided to explore options available for deploying pre-fabricated construction technology for construction of houses and offices. The introduction of the prefab technology would be less time consuming as also ecologically friendly and hence, the decision to include experts from the sector, sources said.
The team would visit the three places from Sept. 21 to Oct. 1 to study various models of housing in these countries so that they could be replicated here.
