500 slabs are cast by CIDCO for PMAY project in 489 days

30 Aug 2022 CW Team

The City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO), a town planning and infrastructure development agency under the Maharashtra government, has finished casting 500 slabs for one of its projects, a developer mass housing initiative under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna, in just 489 days (PMAY).

Prior to this, CIDCO recently finished the construction of a 96-apartment, 12-storey building in just 96 days.

Buildings are now being constructed in several Navi Mumbai nodes as part of CIDCO's mass housing initiative under PMAY. People from the low-income group (LIG) and members of the economically weaker section (EWS) categories will have access to the apartments under this programme.

These 500 slabs have been cast by CIDCO in its initiatives at sectors 28, 29, 31, and 37 in the Taloja node. It has finished the casting work using cutting-edge technology at a rate of 1.02 slabs per day. To accomplish this remarkable feat, architects, planners, engineers, and project consultants AHC, TCE HSA Associates collaborated with CIDCO.

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