Author: W. G. Fernando
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no. HS-92-03
Year: 1992
Academic Program: Human Settlement (HS)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 1989
Examination Committee: Yap Kioe Sheng (Chairperson); Hiran D. Dias, Bernard G. Lefebvre (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Housing in Sri Lanka forms part of a process of socioΓÇö economic change and development which is some what unusual for a third world country. The importance given to housing was consistent with the major development approach of all governments in the post independence period. The Million Houses Programme in Sri Lanka was started in mid 1983. Its concept is radically different from the previously implemented housing Programme in Sri Lanka. Its major foe us is on the provision of support enable poor to built or improve their own shelter. The state directed intervention in the delivery of houses for people is minimal. The target of the Million Houses Programme is to reach a million or more mainly poor families at a lesser cost to the nation but more satisfaction to the actual builders. Under the di rect. ion of National Housing Development Authority, the Rural Housing Sub- Programme sqeks to reach a large number of rural villages with great variety of different needs and priorities such as new housing, upgrading, water supply and sanitarium infrastructure and utilities, lands and loans. This study is an evaluation of Rural Housing Sub-Programme and its impact on housing development in the rural sector or the country’ based on a field survey carried out in Regal le district. The main finding of the study is that there has been a good selection procedure of the beneficiaries with very low income, large family size, seasonally or temporarily occupied. There is algo better coordination with beneficiaries and between line agencies and bureaucracy, and the government agencies. Most of the beneficiaries had used their own unΓÇöskilled and skilled labour significantly, but at the same time } a reasonable number the beneficiaries have failed to use local building materials. Government agencies should encourage the revival traditional skills, and should exploit locally produced building materials Traditional building methods can be improved and a blending or conventional and traditional techniques can lead to a c
Scholarship Donor(s): Canadian International Development Agency/ Asian Institute of TechnologyCanadian Universities Consortium/ Partnership Project ( CIDA/ AIT – CUC /PP)
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Master of Science
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