New technology for cost effective houses

Mahaweli Systems correspondent

The Urban Development and Sacred Area Development Ministry has introduced a range of technologies that would benefit low income families.

Architects of the 'Arunodaya' programme aimed at providing houses to low income people have designed several housing models using these technologies.

The new technologies lead to cut down building material cost, they said.

Following the Arunodaya programme co-ordinators' instructions, one can build a house with two rooms, a kitchen, a living room and a small corridor in a 550 square feet land at Rs. 275,000, said Rupasena Kandanaarachchi, Programme Co-ordinator Urban Development and Sacred Area Development Ministry.