SVAGRIHA Rating

06.12.2024

SVAGRIHA Rating

Why in the news?                        

Recently, the Inland Waterways Authority of India’s Intermodal Terminal (IMT) at Kalughat in Bihar has received five-star SVAGRIHA rating from GRIHA council.

About SVAGRIHA Rating:

• SVAGRIHA rating that stands for Simple Versatile Affordable GRIHA – supports the concept of green buildings and sustainability under Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA).
• It is a guidance-cum-rating system being developed for small stand-alone buildings like residences, commercial offices, motels, dispensaries, schools etc.
• It has been developed in order to help reduce the environmental impact of these small developments.

Rating system:

• It will be applicable only for projects which are less than 2500 sq.m. built-up area.
• The rating system has 14 criteria.
• Criteria: The criteria are divided into 5 broad sub-groups namely: architecture & energy, water & waste, materials, landscape and lifestyle.
• It will be mandatory to attempt certain points under each sub-group. The total points that a project can achieve are 50.
• The rating will be done on a 1–5-star scale.
• It has been designed as a simple online tool with guiding parameters which will evaluate the performance of the project with respect to SVAGRIHA in a simple, easy to understand manner.

Kalughat Intermodal Terminal:

• It is one among several infrastructural interventions made by the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) for capacity augmentation of National Waterway 1 – River Ganga.
• It has received the five-star rating for its efforts for environmental sustainability by ensuring usage of recyclable materials like fibre, recyclable glasses, paint, sanitary fixtures etc during the building of the terminal.

                                                                         Source: PIB

Consider the following statements regarding the SVAGRIHA Rating:

Statement-I: It is guidance-cum-rating system developed for small stand alone buildings like residences and commercial offices.

Statement-II:It is applicable to all kinds of projects without any limit of built up area.

Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above statements?

A.Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct, and Statement-II is the correct explanation for Statement-I.

B.Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct, and Statement-II is not the correct explanation for Statement-I.

C.Statement-I is correct, but Statement-II is incorrect.

D.Statement-I is incorrect, but Statement-II is correct.

Answer C