NBONATIONAL BUILDINGS ORGANISATION

ABOUT…

NBO COLLECTS DATA ON HOUSING STATISTICS.

THIS WAS INITIALLY INTRODUCED IN THE YEAR 1963 AS A CENTRALLY

SPONSORED SCHEME ENVISAGING 50:50 MATCHING CONTRIBUTION

BETWEEN RESPECTIVE STATES AND THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.

IT WAS, HOWEVER, TRANSFERRED TO THE STATE GOVERNMENTS IN 1967.

VISIONNDO INTENDS TO EMERGE AS A KNOWLEDGE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COUNTRY IN MATTERS RELATING TO

COLLECTION URBAN POVERTY

COLLATION SLUMS

COMPILATION HOUSING

REPORTING CONSTRUCTION

ANALYSIS URBANIZATION DETAILS

MAJOR ACTIVITIES OF THE ORGANISATION• NBO is primarily engaged in collection, collation, analysis and

dissemination of housing and construction statistics with a view to have

an effective countrywide system for this purpose.

• In addition, the Organization coordinates activities relating to the

information emanating from various sources, namely, the Registrar

General of India, National Sample Survey Organization and other

concerned organizations.

• The statistics collected and disseminated by NBO is not only used in

policy formulations but is also used by the various research organizations

in the field of housing.

PRIMARY ACTIVITIES…

• The primary activity of the NBO is to collect statistical data in the form of

published reports on the subjects like Housing Condition, Urban

Infrastructure, Slums, Prices of Building Materials and Wage Rates,

Housing in Public and Private Sector, Industrial Housing, Social

Housing (maintained by NPO’s) and Housing Finance Institution.

• NBO is also working as coordinating/data disseminating agency for UN and

other international organizations.

NBO COLLECTS DATA ON HOUSING STATISTICS IN RESPECT OF:

• Current housing and construction activity in the urban areas

including both public and private sectors.

• Building Permits and Building Completion certificates from

cities/towns having one lakh or above one lakh population.

• Prices of building materials and wages of building labor.

• NBO also collects data on Building Construction Cost Index.

• The National Buildings

Organization of the Housing

and Poverty Alleviation

Ministry and the Reserve

Bank of India released the

index based on 27 cities

taking into account new

housing permits between

2007 and 2011.

ANALYSIS

• “Million-plus” cities such as Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore

show a decline in new housing ventures, while smaller places

such as Ahmedabad, Chandigarh and Ghaziabad and Bhopal

showed an increase by end of financial year 2011 compared

to a few years prior to that. Data from Mumbai and Delhi

were not received, the study report says.

THE MAJOR FUNCTIONS OF THE RESTRUCTURED NBO ARE AS FOLLOWS:-

• Study and survey of socio-economic aspects of housing, collection, collation,

co-ordination, analysis and dissemination of building and housing statistics.

• Organisation and setting up of a Management Information System to monitor

implementation of National Housing Policy.

• Organisation and co-ordination of activities relating to housing census and

sample surveys on housing condition.

• Maintaining linkages with Central, State local agencies, financial institutions

and all statistical agencies in order to collate, store, retrieve and

disseminate information on shelter indicators and housing schemes on a

continuous basis and to network with UN and other international agencies

on exchange of information relating to shelter.

• Statistical and socio-economic functions connected with housing and urban

development and proper upkeep of data through computerized data bank,

etc.

OTHER FUNCTIONS…..

• prices of all important building materials such as bricks,

sand, steel, stone, asbestos cement sheets, paints

and varnishes, sanitary ware etc. are covered.

• With regard to wages of building labor, masons,

carpenters, unskilled workers are also covered.

NBO IS ALSO INVOLVED IN RELEASING VARIOUS PUBLICATIONS, BASED ON THE DATA COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES SUCH AS

• Registrar General of India,

• National Sample Survey Organization,

• Central Statistical Organization,

• Reserve Bank of India,

• Housing and Urban Development Corporation,

• National Housing Bank,

• Town & Country Planning Organization,

• Central Public Health Engineering & Environment Organization,

• State Governments,

• National Cooperative Housing Federation etc.

NBO ALSO CONDUCTS STUDIES AND SURVEYS ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF HOUSING.

Two sample surveys, namely

(i) Evaluation of Employment Generation in Urban Slums of

Delhi and

(ii)Evaluation of Housing and Socio-Economic Conditions of

the Urban Poor in the Slums of Delhi were undertaken by

NBO during 1998.

• NBO also collects data on Building Cost Index.

• These data are collected from selected centers, which are mostly the District headquarters in the States and UTs. These data relate to the Low Income Group Houses constructed by either the State Housing Board or the concerned Development Authorities.

• The methodology to change the vase year has also been provided to them. The data are being collected and compiled on quarterly basis.

TRAINING PROGRAMS…

• National Buildings Organisation also conducts training courses for the personnel engaged in the collection of housing and building statistics in different States in consultation with the State Bureaus of the respective State Governments.

• This is intended to streamline and strengthen the system of collection of housing and building statistics at micro level.

• These programs are conducted in collaboration with the State Directorate of Economics and Statistics.

THE SUBJECT COVERED UNDER APPROVED TRAINING PROGRAMS ARE…

• Collection of Housing and Building Construction Statistics and

Building Material Prices, Wages of Labour.

• Slum /Poverty/Livelihoods Survey, HSUI.

• Street Vendors Survey.

• Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC-2011).

• E-Tools Like Slum Survey MIS, /BRIKS, HSUI MIS, IPOMS Etc.

ROLE OF NBO IN JNNURM ACTIVITIES:

A Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission activity (JNNURM) was

launched by Hon'ble Prime Minister of India OF 2005 on 3rd Dec, 2005 for 63

mission cities.

Mission has got two sub mission viz, Urban Infrastructure and Governance which is

looked after by Ministry of Urban Development and sub mission-II, Basic Services for

Urban Poor, which is looked after by Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty

Alleviation.

NBO HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED WITH THE FOLLOWING TASK UNDER

JNNURM

• To look after MIS cell for JNNURM ( including Data Centre and

E-governance unit).

• To act as a nodal agency for receipt of all projects reports

under BSUP and IHSDP and getting them appraised by

BMPTC, HUDCO etc.

• To coordinate all capacity building programmes concerning

project preparation, appraisal and reforms pertaining to

JNNURM training of Municipal Officers, implementing BSUP,

IHSDP etc.

• The NBO will work closely with organizations like NIC,

YASHADA and other agencies.

• BSUP Basic Services To The Urban Poor

• IHSDP Integrated Housing and Slum Development Programme

• BMTPC Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council

• HUDCO The Housing and Urban Development Corporation Limited

• NIC National Informatics Centre

• YASHADA Yashwantrao Chavan Academy of Development Administration

NBO’S ROLE IN FILLING THE DATA GAPS

• The information on certain important indicators, which reflect on the quality of urban life, is still not available.

• Some of these indicators are availability of safe drinking water, woman headed households, liquid and solid waste generated/ treated and disposed off, housing destroyed by disaster, house price to income ratio, land price to income ratio, etc.

• The information on these indicators at cities level will not give an insight on the urban life but will also be helpful in making meaningful urban planning. NBO, suitably strengthened in terms of manpower and appropriate tools, can strive to bridge the data gaps by taking up appropriate studies to assess the existing scenario and / or start building up the data base in conjunction with the state governments.