PM Modi lays foundation stone of Light House projects (LHPs) across six states

Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone of Light House projects (LHPs) at six sites across six States through video conference on 1st January 2021.
The LHPs will be implemented at Indore (Madhya Pradesh), Rajkot (Gujarat), Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Ranchi (Jharkhand), Agartala (Tripura) and Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh).
The project is being constructed under Global Housing Technology Challenge (GHTC)-India. It has been conceptualised by the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.
GHTC-India envisages to provide an ecosystem for adoption of innovative technologies in the housing construction sector in a holistic manner.
Under the programme, over 1,000 houses would be build in each of the six cities in 12 months along with allied infrastructure facilities.
The houses are called light house projects in technical language. Houses being built under the Light House Projects (LHPs) will take less time to build and will be resilient, affordable and comfortable as they use the best of new-age alternative global technologies, materials and processes in the construction sector.