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Technical Report: Curriculum Development for Habitat Schools: (Index page)

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GREHA, since its inception in 1974, has concentrated on the growth of knowledge in the field of Environmental development and Architecture. The thrust of GREHA's efforts has been towards addressing issues of the majority of the Indian population, where the central concerns were of addressing poverty and basic shelter requirements, as well as developing knowledge and methodologies concerning settlement systems more suited to our history and cultural context.
 
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The Ministry of Urban Development and HUDCO have launched a national programme of setting up a network of Building Centres for training of artisans in construction skills. At present there is no institutional arrangement for training of artisans, especially masons. The Industrial Training Institutes do not reach them as they do not fulfil their minimum qualification requirements. There has been substantial increase in construction activity throwing up demand for a large number of building artisans. To meet this demand, unskilled workers who pick up some work at the site, start calling themselves masons resulting in poor workmanship and wastage of materials. Furthermore, they have no exposure to low cost technologies which economize on materials. This is the prime reason why such technologies have not been widely adopted. The proposed network of Building Centres will function as training cum production centres thus fulfilling an important need. The better educated and entrepreneurial artisans will be trained as small contractors who will mange a group of workers and assist the people specially the poor, to build houses suiting their needs.
 
With a view to promote habitat studies, HUDCO established in 1985 its Human Settlement Management Institute providing in service training for housing managers and other professionals. This year, it has, in collaboration with the Slum Wing DDA, established a Habitat Polytechnic as an adjunct to the Building Centre set up in Nizamuddin New Delhi. The Habitat Polytechnic will provide three year diploma course in Habitat Engineering.
 
HUDCO has initiated dialogue with some educational trusts for setting up full fledged Habitat Schools which will provide for the entire range of instructions from graduate studies to construction skills. The response has been encouraging. HUDCO has engaged a group of professionals to develop the curricula for such Habitat Schools.
 
Urgent consideration by the Planning Commission, Ministry of Urban Development Ministry of Education and the Directorate of Technical Education is required in order to realize the objectives of the National Housing Policy.

 

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> Delhi School of design
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> GREHA "Habitat Schools" Curriculum, 1990

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