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Is green building too expensive a proposition for Patna Real estate?

The irony of our times in Patna is that in a largely agricultural based economy of Bihar, a GREEN Building is seen as LUXURY, which only wealthy (which itself is handful in one of the most economically laggard state of India) can afford. In our poor state the poorest people are living the greenest lives and they need money not to be GREEN but to afford a “HOME”. Therefore “GREEN HOME” is luxury in Bihar for both the classes, one cannot have GREEN and the other cannot have HOME. The idea of Green Building is to limit the impact of construction and habitation  within the limits of the construction on the environment without compromising human comfort. There is a perception that going GREEN requires increased cost for the developer in Patna as compared to traditional construction costs in Patna. It is more so in Patna because builders in Patna do not participate in the maintenance of the building they have erected. If an INTEGRATED approach is adopted by developers in Patna, th...