In yet another success relating to Government scheme implementation, Tripura has been declared ‘Best Performing State’ in the NE and Hilly States category. The declaration came for outstanding performance of Tripura in the implementation of Union Government’s flagship PMAY (Urban) scheme.
Besides, Agartala Municipal Corporation (AMC) has been selected as ‘Best Performing Municipal Corporation’ and Belonia has been awarded as ‘Best Performing Municipal Council’.
The awards have been announced by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs in a letter sent to Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb recently.
The awards will be given to Tripura by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via a video conference on January 1 next. As part of the programme, the Prime Minister along with the Chief Minister of Tripura will also lay the foundation stone for Light House Project.
The Light House Project in Agartala comprises 1000 flats which will demonstrate and deliver ready to live-in houses expeditiously than the normal convention construction in cost-effective, economical, sustainable and climate resilient manner and with better quality of construction. These will serve as live laboratory for mass awareness, research, testing, technology transfer and mainstreaming in the country.
For the Light House Project, the Ministry has introduced a Technology Innovation Grant of Rs. 4 lakh per house, which is over and above the existing grant of Rs. 1.5 lakh per house under PMAY-U.
As part of this endeavour, total 54 globally proven innovative technologies were shortlisted. Among them, six technologies have been selected for constructing six Light House Projects (LHPs) of about 1000 houses each with allied infrastructure at six places- Agartala (Tripura), Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Rajkot (Gujarat), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Ranchi (Jharkhand) and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh).
The Mission was designed to achieve the Prime Minister’s vision of ‘housing for all by 2022’ when the country would celebrate its 75th year of Independence.