COST REDUCTION THROUGH OPTIMIZATION OF HOUSING ELEMENTS CRITICAL ANALYSIS FOR NORTH WEST PLAIN REGIONS

Abstract

Food, shelter and clothes are the three basic needs of a man. Where food is essential for the existence, shelter is equally important to live in. In fact whether it is slum dwe-ller or a man from high income group, shelter is required in one form or other. In fact two types of housing problems exist in our country today. First one is the shortage of houses which is being handled at every level with the help of government agen-cies and second one is the provision of houses within the affordable limit. Affordable limit of people is very less in India being a poor country. Hence this factor must be kept into mind while suggesting anything in this direction. Truelly speaking right ;. from economically weaker section to M.I.G. category, the people are just struggling to get the houses within their budget. Despite of involvement of many agencies such as develop-ment authorities, housing boards and research organisations on this aspect, these two colossal problems are still unsolved. Housing finance is being allocated in the budget every year in our country, but the':same state of affair remains. There is not even a single place, where one does not find this problem. Government has invested so much amount in establishing the housing boards and development authorities with the sole aim to do something on this aspect, then why are they not providing 2 themselves to the satisfaction of the common man 2 Thus like-wise there are many quarries which need attention and demand answer. Even in a private sector, one does not find different picture. People there are just confused and simply guided by the contractors and masons. The basic reason for such a con-fused state of affair is the lack of economical planning guide-lines, and lack of knowledge related to the analytical study on various cost reduction elements for arriving at the optimum solutions.