Preamble

This Charter is a commitment of the Building Materials & Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC) to fulfill the following Vision and Mission:

Vision

“BMTPC to be world class knowledge and demonstration hub for providing solutions to all with special focus on common man in the area of sustainable building materials, appropriate construction technologies & systems including disaster resistant construction.”

Mission

“To work towards a comprehensive and integrated approach for promotion and transfer of potential, cost-effective, environment-friendly, disaster resistant building materials and technologies including locally available materials from lab to land for sustainable development of housing.”

Objectives

• Building Materials & Construction Technologies : To promote development, standardisation, mechanisation and large scale field application of proven innovative and emerging building materials and technologies in the construction sector.
• Capacity Building and Skill Development: To work as a Training Resource Centre for capacity building and promotion of good construction practices to professionals, construction agencies, artisans and marketing of building technologies from lab to land.
• Disaster Mitigation & Management : To promote methodologies and technologies for natural disaster mitigation, vulnerability & risk reduction and retrofitting/ reconstruction of buildings and disaster resistant planning for human settlements.
• Project Management & Consultancy: To undertake project management and consultancy services including appraisal, monitoring and third party inspection of housing projects under the various Central/State Schemes.

Services of BMTPC

The Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council offers its services under following thrust areas:

• Identification, evaluation of proven and emerging technologies available globally and encouraging joint venture in building materials and construction sector.
• Promoting economy, efficiency and quality in construction.
• Up scaling of technologies, know-how acquisition, absorption and dissemination.
• Field level application of environment-friendly, energy-efficient and disaster resistant technologies for proven, locally available and emerging technologies.
• Formulation of Standards on proven building materials/technologies including emerging technologies/systems and incorporation in the schedule of specifications/rates.
• Documentation of benefits, durability and acceptability of cost effective and innovative building materials and technologies.
• Skill upgradation of professionals and construction workers through capacity building programmes, training programmes, seminars, conferences, workshops, exhibitions nationally as well as internationally.
• Promoting disaster resistant construction technologies.
• Appraisal, monitoring and third party inspection of housing projects including undertaking project management and consultancy services.

Access to Information

The Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council disseminates information  through:

• publications, brochures and display panels.
• Audio –video CD-ROMS
• participation in exhibitions, workshops, conferences and seminars
• organising various training programmes, entrepreneurship development programmes, seminars, workshops and exhibitions
• advertisement in newspapers
• website

Grievance Redressal

The following officer has been designated as Grievance Officer for the Council:

Shri S.K.Gupta, Dy.Chief – TDE&IC, Tel: 24652416, Fax: 24642849.

Citizen’s Obligations

• to extend all assistance and cooperation to the Council’s staff in carrying out their bonafide duties.
• to bring to the notice of senior officers of the Council genuine grievances not attended to at the lower levels.
• To feel free to write to the Council for any constructive suggestion for further improving this charter to:

Addresses for Communication