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Shri. Hardeep S Puri Minister of State IC for Housing and Urban Affairs launched the CLSS Awas Portal CLAP. Separately Memorandum of Agreements MoAs for Light House Projects under GHTC-India were also exchanged between MoHUA and State Government of 6 states viz Gujarat Jharkhand Madhya Pradesh Tamil Nadu Tripura and Uttar Pradesh at the event. Sh. Durga Shanker Mishra Secretary Ministry of Housing Urban Affairs senior Officers of the Ministry and State Governments Managing Directors and Chief Executive Officers of several Banks and Housing Finance Companies were also present.Speaking at the occasion Sh. Puri congratulated the team of experts for such exemplary work in last few months on developing the IT based CLSS Awas Portal CLAP particularly to the collective effort put in by theMinistry Central Nodal Agencies CNAs and Primary Lending Institutions PLIs.He expressed that with the launch of CLAP the grievance of the beneficiaries will be addressed in a much comprehensive organised and transparent manner. He further highlighted that this software will help other stakeholders to work in synergy for release of subsidy to beneficiaries on time.For addressing the housing demand of more than 10 million houses by 2022 Government of India launched Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban in June 2015. To accomplish Housing For All Mission Global Housing Technology Challenge-India GHTC-India was launched to get globally acclaimed alternate and proven construction technologies for speedier and cost-effective construction of affordable housing. The Prime Minister declared 2019-2020 as Construction Technology Year.Shri Puri expressed his appreciation to the State Governments for construction of these Light House Projects at Indore Rajkot Chennai Ranchi Agartala and Lucknow.For LHPs the Ministry has introduced a Technology Innovation Grant as an additional grant of Rs. 2.0 lakh per house which is over and above of the existing share of Rs 1.5 lakh per house under PMAY U.Shri DurgaShanker Mishra SecretaryMoHUA shared that the Ministry has developed a web based real time monitoring system called CLAP in which all stakeholders such as MoHUA CNAs PLIs and Beneficiaries are integrated. Shri Mishra explained the importance of CLAP portal as a well-designed concept in using IT based platform to bring transparency and efficiency in release of subsidy to the beneficiaries under CLSS. This Portal will enable processing of individual application verification at initial stage release of subsidy transparency and minimizing grievances.Speaking about the GHTC and signing of MoAs for LHPs Shri Mishra highlighted that these LHPs are model housing projects to demonstrate and deliver ready to live-in houses expeditiously than the normal convention construction which are cost-effective economical sustainable climate resilient and superior with better quality of construction.
