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Mumbai May 11: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to introduce ‘Eco-Housing certification programme’ to regulate the rapid and large scale housing constructions in Greater Mumbai. The programme also aims at promoting environment friendly and energy efficient housing projects in Greater Mumbai.
“Unplanned and unsustainable urban development in Mumbai has led to severe environmental pressure with the depletion of green cover and ground water resources. BMC will partner with the United State Agency for International Development (USAID), International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC) led by Pune-based Science and Technology Park (STP) to institutionalise eco-housing practices,” said additional municipal commissioner (projects) Manu Kumar Shrivastav. The initiative is aimed at lessening the burden on the city’s infrastructure and environment, he added.
The eco-friendly initiative includes use of solar energy, rain-water harvesting, segregation of garbage, vermiculture, sewerage processing units, water recycling and tree plantation by the developers and builders during their upcoming projects.
According to BMC sources, the eco-housing system will save a lot of energy and ensure minimal usage of non-conventional resources. Besides, Mumbai will be the first metro city in India to have made eco-housing certification compulsory, BMC sources added.
Mr Rajendra Jagdale, director general of STP, said, “Sensitising the stakeholders like developers, architects, engineers, financial institutions and citizens as consumers, would be the priority. Site selection, environmental architecture, landscape planning, use of alternative or cost efficient building material, energy efficient lighting, water conservation and recycling, solid waste management etc will be the criteria for evaluating eco housing.”
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