Rapid Evaluation of the Innovative Stream for Rural Housing and Habitat Development (ISRHHD) and Samagra Awaaz Yojana (SAY)

Innovative Stream for Rural Housing and Habitat Development (ISRHHD) is a rural housing scheme by the MoRD, launched on April 1999 with the objective of promoting and propagating the cost effective and environmental friendly construction technologies, materials, designs, etc., for suitable rural human settlements with agro climatic variations and natural disaster proneness. The objectives of ISRHHD are to promote/ propagate innovative and proven housing technologies, designs and materials in the rural areas. Further, the scheme aims to support initiatives that lend themselves to superior habitat development. Samagra Awaas Yojana (SAY), also by the MoRD is a comprehensive housing scheme launched with a view to ensuring integrated provision of shelter, sanitation and drinking water.

The underlying philosophy of SAY is to provide convergence to the existing rural housing sanitation and water supply schemes with special emphasis on technology transfer, human resource development and habitat improvement with peoples’ participation. The Ministry had undertaken a study of ISRHHD and SAY projects to rapidly evaluate the progress of implementation of the projects in different Districts of the country. CMD was entrusted with the study in 13 Districts of Tamil Nadu (Cuddalore, Dindigul, Erode, Kancheepuram, Kanyakumari, Karur, Madurai, Perambalur, Pudukkottai, Thanjavur, Thiruchirappalli, Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi). A total of 13 ISRHHD projects and 2 SAY projects were evaluated and the report has been submitted to the MoRD.