India’s Greater Mumbai is witnessing a rapid and large scale housing constructions each day. So, to regulate it, and taking the injuries it brings to the environment into consideration, the Brihan-Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to introduce ‘Eco-Housing Certification Program’ in the bustling city of growing concretes. The program aims to promote, not only environment friendly, but also energy-efficient housing projects in Greater Mumbai.
The initiatives this project will be undertaking to turn the city green includes using of solar energy, harvesting rain-water, segregating garbage, vermiculture, units for processing sewerage, recycling water and planting trees by the concerned developers and builders.
Additional municipal commissioner (projects) Manu Kumar Shrivastav said,
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 institutionalize eco-housing practices.
It is to lessen the burden on the city’s infrastructure and environment, the initiative is taken.
Via: Financial Express
