• Recently, the Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of Light House Projects (LHP) under Global Housing Technology Challenge-India (GHTC-India) across six States.

Significance of Technology in Urban Transformation

• As of now, Urbanisation in India is around 31% whereas Global urbanisation rate is around 80-90%.
• Urbanisation can be defined as “high density of population in urban areas along with least dependence on agriculture”.
• Urban areas are products of technology and can be equipped with better technological facilities and should accept more and more people because urban areas have better capacity to pay which eventually leads to creation of wealth and can result in Urban transformation.
• The pandemic has created a situation where the majority of the population goes for remote work that is work from home and in this scenario, the role of technology can be a game changer in terms of urban transformation.
• Technology can further enhance the optimality of construction, management and futuristic plans.

Major areas of Technology Application in Urban areas

1. In terms of construction area, the planning aspect is undergoing a big technological revolution and construction techniques like prefabricated sandwich panel system, monolithic concrete construction technology, 3D printing etc. are being used.
2. Technology can be used to analyse the nature of land in order to develop farmer efficient cities.
3. Identifying production levels of buildings.
4. Use of digital technology for designing aspects.
5. For planned organisation and smart governance of cities.
6. For training purposes especially in terms of skill development.
7. For efficient data management.

Reference:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_gXU0TPqZo