GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF WORKS, HOUSING AND REHABILITATION

Model Houses Constructed  in the INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION on Low-cost Housing, 1954

FOREWORD: The announcement by the Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply of the Low-Income Group Housing Scheme has resulted in a great demand for the plans and specification of the model houses which were constructed in New Delhi at the time of the International Exhibition on Low-Cost Housing.

This small booklet, therefore, reproduces from the Exhibition Souvenier issued in January 1954, the photographs, plans and specifications of the various houses set up during the Exhibition by the State Governments, Central Government research institutes and construction agencies, individuals and private parites.

Model Houses Section

The plans and specifications of the houses given in following pages are those which have been constructed in the Model Houses Section of the Exhibition. The number given at the top of every page indicates plot number where the actual house is constructed. The name of the agency whether Government or private is given below the plan. The technical abbreviations used in the specifications of plans are explained below for the convenience of the readers.

  1. A.C. — Asbestos Cement
  2. B.B. — Burnt Brick
  3. B.W.G. — British Wire Gauge
  4. C.B.R.I. — Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee
  5. C.C. — Cement Concrete
  6. C.I. — Corrugated Iron
  7. C.M. — Cement Mortar
  8. C.T. — Country Tank
  9. D.P.C. — Damp Proof Course
  10. D.Q. — Delhi Quartzite
  11. G.I. — Galvanized Iron
  12. G.L. — Ground Level
  13. M.S. — Mild Steel
  14. R.B. — Reinforced Brick
  15. R.C. — Reinforced Concrete
  16. R.C.C. — Reinforced Cement Concrete
  17. S.D.B. — Sun dried brick
  18. W.C. — Water Closet
Seminar and Exhibition on Low-Cost Housing and Community Improvement: This photograph, taken before the Exhibition opened, shows the village health clinic under construction
Seminar and Exhibition on Low-Cost Housing and Community Improvement: This photograph, taken before the Exhibition opened, shows the village health clinic under construction More than 30,000 people have been crowding daily to see a model village which has sprung up during the past few months on the outskirts of India's capital, New Delhi. Built almost under the shadow of the vast walls of Purana Quila, old Delhi’s fifteenth-century fortress, this village of 80 homes is one of the major features of the International Exhibition on Low-cost Housing - first of its kind in the world - which the Indian Government organized to coincide with the recent United Nations Regional Seminar on Housing and Community Improvement which opened on 21 January and ended on 17 February 1954. The village is modest and simple, with a health clinic and school, a cooperative store, carpenter's shop and smithy, properly planned streets, adequate water supply, lighting, drainage and a village centre adequately equipped for communal activities. The houses are adapted to their environment and so planned that each family unit will find dignity and privacy in its home. Yet none costs more than 5,000 rupees - a little over 1,000 dollars and many costs a great deal less. The whole project is an eloquently practical demonstration of what “aided self-help” can do toward overcoming the gigantic housing problems of under-developed countries. 

INDEX TO THE HOUSES SET UP AT THE EXHIBITION

Note:— Numbers within brackets indicate plot numbers. In the Model Houses Section, every page bears the plot numbers in thick bold type on the top.

 

Description of Houses

  

Pages

1.

All India Housing Association

(56)

114

2.

All India Housing Association

(57)

116

3.

Andamans P.W.D.

(35)

72

4.

Asbestos Cement Company Ltd.

(20)

42

5.

Asbestos Cement Company Ltd.

(44)

92

6.

Bengal Engineering College

(17-18)

38

7.

Bikaner Gypsums

(27)

56

8.

Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee

(6)

16

9.

Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee

(7)

18

10.

Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee

(8)

20

11.

Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee

(9)

22

12.

Central P.W.D. Model House No. 1

(14)

32

13.

Central P.W.D. Model House No. 2

(13)

30

14.

Central P.W.D. Model House No. 3

(2)

8

15.

Central P.W.D. Model House No. (3)

(3)

10

16.

Central P.W.D.  Assam Model 5

(24)

70

17.

Central P.W.D. Model House No. 6 , Rural C

  

134

18.

Central P.W.D. Model House No. 7

(1a)

4

19.

Central P.W.D. Model House constructed with the help of U.N. Adviser—(Rural B)

  

132

20-A.

Competition House (Hot & Humid Region)

(4)

12

20-B.

Competition House (Hot & Dry Region)

(22)

46

21.

Concrete Association of India

(33)

68

22.

Delhi Improvement Trust

(46)

96

23.

Delhi Land Finance (D.L.F.)

(37)

76

24.

Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun

(36)

74

25.

Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun

(65-66)

126

26.

Shri Gore’s Portalbe House

(58)

118

27.

Government of Assam

(31)

64

28.

Government of Bhopal

(38)

78

29.

Government of Bihar

(42)

88

30.

Government of Bombay

(41)

84

31.

Government of Bombay

(41-A)

86

32.

Government of Burma

(64)

124

33.

Government of Hyderabad

(12)

28

34.

Government of Madhya Bharat

(28)

58

35.

Government of Madhya Pradesh

(59)

120

36.

Government of P.E.P.S.U.

(43)

90

37.

Government of Punjab—Chandigarh

(23)

48

38.

Government of Punjab—Chandigarh

(24)

50

39.

Government of Rajasthan

(46)

96

40.

Government of Saurasthra

(25)

52

41.

Government of Uttar Pradesh                

(5)

14

42.

Government of Uttar Pradesh        

(15)

34

43.

Government of West Bengal

(16)

36

44.

Government of West Bengal (Rural No. W-1)

  

136

45.

Government of West Bengal (Rural No. W-2)

  

138

46.

Growing House

(10-11)

54

47.

Hindustan Block Manufacturing Co. Ltd., West Bengal

(40)

82

48.

Hindustan Housing Factory Ltd.

(54)

110

49.

Hyderabad City Improvement Board

(26)

54

50.

Indian Aluminum Company Ltd.

(39)

80

51.

Indian Plywood Co.

(1)

6

52.

Jardine Henderson (U.K.)

(60)

122

53.

Mehta’s Minimum House

(49-50)

102

54.

Military Engineering Service

(19)

40

55.

Military Engineering Service (Hot & Wet)

(32)

66

56.

Military Engineering Service

(45)

94

57.

Northern Railway

(21)

44

58.

Northern Railway

(29)

60

59.

Northern Railway

(30)

62

60.

Shri P.D. Patel—Bhavnagar

(55)

112

61.

Rational Planning Corporation

(47)

98

62.

Rational Planning Corporation—Kotah Stone

(48)

100

63.

Rational Planning Corporation Rural—Neolyte

(68)

128

64.

Sindri Fertilizer Factory

(52)

106

65.

Millers Vaccum Concrete House

(53)

108

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