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Published by: Subhash Kumar
Updated Sun, 20 Feb 2022 08:32 PM IST
Summary
ASHA Incubator aims to provide advice on identification of technologies, technical support to innovative ideas, business support to them and infrastructure support.
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Accelerator Affordable Sustainable Housing Accelerators is an initiative by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Under this initiative, support is provided to those technologies which are not in the market and are ready to hit the market. According to officials, many startups have been helped by the incubator. These include Tvasta, which has built the country’s first 3D-printed home and the first 3D-printed doffing unit to safely remove PPE used by COVID-19 frontline healthcare workers.
ASHA Incubator aims to provide advice on identification of technologies, technical support to innovative ideas, business support to them and infrastructure support. In this initiative, ASHA-India Centers will assist in laying down guidelines and manuals for effective design of such technologies. For this, arrangements have been made for five institutes IIT Madras, Kharagpur, Bombay and Roorkee and apart from these, CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat.
KR Aggarwal, Executive Director, Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, informed that the ASHA initiative by the Ministry is being run under the Technology Sub-Mission of PMAY-U. Under this, assistance is being provided to the technology enterprises of the housing sector.
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Accelerator Affordable Sustainable Housing Accelerators is an initiative by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. Under this initiative, support is provided to those technologies which are not in the market and are ready to hit the market. According to officials, many startups have been helped by the incubator. These include Tvasta, which has built the country’s first 3D-printed home and the first 3D-printed doffing unit to safely remove PPE used by COVID-19 frontline healthcare workers.
ASHA Incubator aims to provide advice on identification of technologies, technical support to innovative ideas, business support to them and infrastructure support. In this initiative, ASHA-India Centers will assist in laying down guidelines and manuals for effective design of such technologies. For this, arrangements have been made for five institutes IIT Madras, Kharagpur, Bombay and Roorkee and apart from these, CSIR-NEIST, Jorhat.
KR Aggarwal, Executive Director, Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, informed that the ASHA initiative by the Ministry is being run under the Technology Sub-Mission of PMAY-U. Under this, assistance is being provided to the technology enterprises of the housing sector.