Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (July 3) reviewed the Light House Projects (LHP) as part of the Global Housing Technology Challenge-India (GHTC-India), a program that aims to build more than 1,000 houses in 12 months.

The LHPs are being constructed at Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Rajkot (Gujarat), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Agartala (Tripura) and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh).

The affordable aims to build over 1,000 houses each six sites across six states in one year. PM Modi laid the foundation stone on January 1 and said the project is driven by modern technology and innovative processes. Houses being built under it will take less time to build and will be resilient, affordable and comfortable, he had said, noting that modern construction practices from countries like France, Germany and Canada will be put into practice.

Notably, in the feature of construction, the project in Indore will not have brick and mortar walls; instead, they will use the prefabricated sandwich panel system. Houses under the programme in Rajkot will be built using French technology. Monolithic concrete construction technology using tunnels will be used and the houses built will be more capable of withstanding disasters.

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