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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

503 REDRH Houses set to be handed over 18th Sept

Gangtok, 17 Sept [IPR]: The Reconstruction of Earthquake Damaged Rural Houses Project (REDRH) covers the reconstruction of 7,972 earthquake damaged rural houses for the victims of the devastating 18th Sept, 2011 Sikkim earthquake with a funding support of Rs 4.89 lakh per house. A total of 5,000 houses are under various stages of construction, and many houses were inaugurated earlier. Now a total of 503 new houses are set to be inaugurated on 18th Sept, 2013 all over the State.
The philosophy of “Build Back Better” has been the guiding strategy for this project. The homeowner-driven implementation model was adopted and it helped to establish a sense of ownership and identity. An efficient and transparent mechanism to ensure that beneficiary selection, stock material management, physical progress monitoring and simplification of the technical element was established.
The core house design, building standards, construction material (cement and steel), technical supervision and capital was provided by the project. While the home-owner undertook the actual construction, procured local construction material (stone, sand, timber etc), arranged for mason and labour and also added their own finances. In order to make this approach effective, the provision of grant was made contingent upon meeting minimum standards for good construction quality. Also, many more houses will be completed in the months to come.

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