Mysuru: Enjoining on builders to adopt advanced building technologies for the construction of houses for the underprivileged, Karnataka higher education minister GT Devegowda on Friday said, “The construction technology has witnessed the advent of many advanced technologies recently. These should be used to construct homes for the poor and middle classes. Such an endeavor will help the poor own a house of their own for a modest price.”Devegowda, who inaugurated a national seminar on ‘Build Tech: Smart Construction and Efficient Building Services’ organised by the Builders Association of India (BIA), Mysuru chapter at Senate Bhavan, expressed his disappointment with government organisations such as Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) and Mysuru Urban Development Authority (Muda) for their failure in using latest technologies. “Private real estate companies took advantage of this situation, and improved their business. Had government organisations worked efficiently, private real estate sector would not have recorded such profits,” said Devegowda.The minister pointed to the disturbing trend of private layouts proliferating around cities such as Bengaluru, despite many of these not being equipped with basic facilities including roads and drains. “Had BDA constructed townships within a 50km-radius of Bengaluru, this would have helped reduce the burden on the capital city by now,” Devegowda said.Lamenting the paucity of sand and stone, which resulted in delaying construction projects, the minister added, “Both the central and state government are directly crediting money to the bank accounts of the poor to enable them to undertake construction of houses under many schemes, However, sand and stone are not available, and as a result, the poor are unable to construct homes.”Devegowda assured the experts participating in the seminar that their opinions on the subject would be studied, and a proposal for adoption of technologies for construction of homes for the poor placed before the government.Builder Raj Pillai, University of Mysore (UoM) vice-chancellor G Hemanth Kumar, BIA Karnataka president KS Somashekar Reddy were among those in attendance at the seminar.

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