Clean India- Skilled India- Strong India CREDAI Conclave 2014..!

Clean India- Skilled India- Strong India

CREDAI Conclave 2014..!

 November 24-25, 2014 Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi

Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations’ of India (CREDAI)  the apex body for private real estate developers in India prides itself on its commitment to the development of housing and habitat in India.  It believes that they are in the enterprise of providing housing to the nation because a house is everyone’s dream of a better, healthier and more secure life.

CREDAI, in its bid for advocacy through learning, organizes a Conclave at Delhi every year. Since its inception in 1999, CREDAI Conclave has developed into the most effective platform for policy discourse on housing and shelter, bringing the political leadership, experts and industry together.  More than 800 housing and habitat entrepreneurs from all over the Country attended the CREDAI Conclave 2013 and this year the attendance is expected to touch 1000.

C Shekar Reddy, President -
CREDAI National

This year Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi is expected to address the Delegates of CREDAI Conclave 2014 through an Audio Visual Link and provide CREDAI with a sense of direction on their endeavour of Clean India- Skilled India- Strong India.  The following Ministers have confirmed their presence :

·         Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, Hon’ble Minister of Urban Development, Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Parliament Affairs

·         Shri P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Hon’ble Minister for Civil Aviation,

·         Shri Prakash Javadekar, Hon’ble Minister for Environment and Forests,

·         Shri Piyush Goyal, Hon’ble Minister for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy

·         Shri Rajiv Pratap Rudy, Hon’ble Minister for Skill Development

·         Shri Ram Kripal Yadav, Hon’ble Minister of Drinking Water and Sanitation

·         Shri. Bandaru Dattatreya, Hon’ble Minister for Labour and Emloyment

Shri. Arun Jaitley, Hon’ble Minister for Finance has been invited and his confirmation is expected soon

Speaking about the CREDAI Conclave Mr. C Shekar Reddy National President CREDAI said, “We at CREDAI align the members to the vision by our beloved Prime Minister of Swachh Bharat and will set an example for voluntary action to clean India. The conclave will also strategize to train and skill more people and make them employable for the industry. This conclave will pave the way towards India’s commitment to inclusive, sustainable and affordable development to make a stronger India and work towards the vision of ‘Housing for All’ by 2022. The conclave will also be deliberating the alternative models of implementing the smart cities concept so that the opportunities of involving private sector developers are appreciated and Public Private Partnerships become conceivable in the smart city project.”

Elaborating  about the theme of the Conclave Mr. C Shekar Reddy said “The pledge for a Swachh Bharat by the time of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi in 2019 has touched a chord with our fraternity as our members have been silently engaged in experimenting  with alternative models for garbage reduction and waste management. CREDAI Kochi Clean City Movement and the Magarpatta City and Nanded City are initiatives that bring out the success of voluntary effort by developers in reducing garbage in our urban areas.

Our members are expected to deliberate these initiatives at Delhi Conclave and take two concrete steps.

a       The first is the Clean India Pledge by all the delegates at the Conclave 2014. With this pledge, CREDAI would become the first among the associations of industry to adopt Swachh Bharat mission as an organizational endeavour.

b          The second is the institution of a  campaign for zero garbage in the housing complexes being developed by our members.  Our members are coming forth to voluntarily adopt zero garbage principle in all their developments which would be formally announced at Delhi Conclave leading to reduction of garbage by at least 10,00,000 (TEN LAKH M.T)  tonne per annum in the very first year in important urban clusters all over India.”

Mr. Reddy further added “Our commitment to Skill Development is especially meaningful to us since our sector is the largest employer after agriculture. CREDAI Maharashtra has taken up an on the job site training programme entitled “Kushal”.   Under the aegis of this programme, CREDAI  for the first time among Industry Associations, has pledged to provide vocational and technical training to  labour on-site. KUSHAL is ventured by CREDAI jointly with NSDC to increase the skilled manpower for construction industry and reduce the existing gap between the demand and supply of skilled manpower. This model envisages that the expenses of on-site material and infrastructure are borne by developers and the rest is funded by NSDC. Under Kushal, 138 centres have been opened by 75 developers with about 60 expert trainers. This is proposed to be extended to other places. At the Conclave, CREDAI would also unveil other initiatives on Skill Development including setting up a greenfield institution for Skill Development in Real Estate Sector. “

Speaking about the Government’s vision of housing for all Mr Reddy said “CREDAI fraternity is enthused that the Government has adopted Housing for All by 2022 as an explicit policy objective. This clears the path for our members to come forward and contribute their entrepreneurial skills and financial resources towards the mitigation of housing shortage, estimated at 18.78 million units, as well as to spur GDP growth through the backward and forward linkages of housing to about 250 other industries. The Conclave would deliberate the enabling policy measures for maximizing private efforts to ensure housing for all. These measures include long pending recommendations by the Committees appointed by the Government  such as the following-

a.      Single Window Clearance for all projects

b.      Treatment of Housing as infrastructure

c.       Facilitating flow of Funds for housing

d.      Harmonization of building bye-laws and standardization

e.       Skill Development

f.  Efficient delivery of municipal services through public private partnerships

The deliberations on the above initiatives of the real estate fraternity of housing and real estate developers would be taken up after the Conclave to prepare a blueprint for action in the coming year by constituents of CREDAI at the National, State and City levels. 

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