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Mysuru man builds houses with construction debris -K Rathna

-The New Indian Express

Budget 2021-22: Rising poverty, falling health parameters, worsening educational outcomes, inadequate housing and widespread unemployment are the biggest challenges facing the Indian economy.

MYSURU: From a distance, a house at Harthale, Nanjangud, looks like any other in the locality. But you step inside, and you will find recycled wooden windows and doors procured from demolished buildings, broken ceramics for surface, mud concrete blocks made out of building waste, flooring again with mud concrete. “This house makes a statement about useful waste,” says M Rajesh Kumar Jain (45), an architect from Mysuru, who builds houses using construction waste.

The farmhouse on about 450 sq ft, built for a vice admiral (retired), has glass bottles procured from local vendors for lighting purpose; jali bricks for natural ventilation, roofing done with old used micro concrete roofing tiles, where steel is used. And there is more. Excavated gravel at the site is used for the foundation. Only about 30 bags of cement were used for the entire project. “People have a misconception that using more steel means the building will be stronger. Today people think cement as a superior and compulsory material for construction.

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