Today Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Construction Technology India-2019 Expo-cum-Conference in Delhi. It is going to be a big platform for Technology providers, researchers, start-ups, developers, academia, public sector agencies and other domain experts participating in the two-day event.
The Conference is being organised by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs on 2nd – 3rd March 2019 in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi to identify proven, innovative and globally established technologies for use in the Indian context.
The expo-cum-Conference will provide avenues for interaction among stakeholders that can open up new areas for collaboration and will facilitate the conversion of ideas into market-ready products. GHTC-India will also contribute substantially towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as laid out by the United Nations (UN), the New Urban Agenda and the Paris Climate Accord to which India is a signatory and similar international commitments by gradually migrating from inefficient & carbon-intensive processes to cleaner and compliant options.
Youth are the main beneficiaries of this initiative. Proven technologies which are identified during CTI - 2019 will be further invited to design and build lighthouse projects of nearly one thousand housing units each at six States in the country. These states are Gujarat, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Tripura and Uttar Pradesh.
