In News- Recently, the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs has launched the Enrolment Module for TECHNOGRAHIS.
About
- TECHNOGRAHIS are students from IITs, NITs, engineering, planning and architecture colleges, faculty members, academicians, and stakeholders.
- MoHUA is promoting six Light House Projects (LHPs) as Live Laboratories for transfer of technology to the field.
- The primary goal is to encourage large scale participation of people to create technical awareness for on-site learning.
- The foundation stone of LHPs was laid at Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Rajkot (Gujarat), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Agartala (Tripura) and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh).
- The LHPs are being built as part of the Global Housing Technology Challenge-India (GHTC- India) initiative under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban (PMAY-U).
Significance
- The interested candidates can register themselves to visit the Live Laboratories at six LHP sites for learning, consultation, generation of ideas and solutions, experimentation, innovation, and technical awareness.
- It will help students in getting a first-hand account of the technologies being used and in turn, they can adapt and adopt them as per their requirements in the construction sector for a ‘Make in India’ approach”.
- The promotion of LHP sites is aimed to encourage large scale participation of people to create technical awareness for on-site learning.
- The technology revolution is cost-effective, environment-friendly, disaster-resilient and promotes speedier construction.
