Building India
Survey shows that India needs approximately 100 million houses, mostly in urban area. Housing in rural area appears to be not considered in the survey. Demand for housing in rural area is for want of funds needed for housing. People do want better houses with sanitary facilities in rural area also. On account of poverty people in rural area don't think about a better housing and are forced to be satisfied with shacks they possess. The second difficulty is land for housing in urban area. Present practice is to add villages on periphery of a city or town to make available land for housing of urban needs. While doing these services are not considered. Once housing projects get completed people occupy those and then find many problems like water, transport, electricity, sewage disposal, marketing and so on. The present method is trying to place cart in front of a horse and expect the horse to pull the cart.