Seat No.: Enrolment
GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
BPLAN SEMESTER EXAMINATION WINTER 2017
Subject Code: 1045505 Date: 21/11/2017
Subject Name: Housing and Community Planning
Time: 02.30PM to 04.30PM Total Marks: 50
Instructions:
1. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
2. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
3. Use appropriate examples and illustrations where necessary.
1. Multiple Choice Questions (05 marks)
a. Slums which are notified areas in a town or city notified as by State,
UT Administration or Local Government under any Act including a 'Slum Act' are called
i. Notified Slum
ii. Recognized Slum
iii. Identified Slum
iv. None of the above.
b. The difference between Condominium and Apartment is in terms of
i. Structure
ii. Legality
iii. Materials
iv. None of the above.
c. The relationship between income and affordability for various income groups follows a trend.
i. Linear
ii. Non-linear
iii. There is no relationship between income and affordability
iv. None of the above
d. Significance of housing is in terms of
i. Privacy and sanitation
ii. Health and progress
iii. Both i ii
iv. None of the above
e. Indian Government wants to ensure decent and secure housing for
i. Economically Weaker Section only
ii. LIG and MIG People
iii. All
iv. HIG People only
Write true or False: (05 marks)
a. Site and services scheme is always worse than slum clearance methods.
b. Houses should be climate responsive.
c. Rajiv Awas Yojna for the slum dwellers and the urban poor envisages a 'Slum-free India'.
d. HDFC stands for Housing Development Finance Corporation Limited.
e. Slums are legal but substandard settlements, with a lack of adequate services and overcrowding.
Q.2a What are the parameters for assessing housing situation? (05 marks)
OR
Q.2a What are the current issues in housing?
Q.2b Expand the following (Any Five): (05 marks)
i. MDGs
ii. LIG
iii. NHHP
iv. BSUP
v. AHIP
vi. NGOs
vii. ULCA
Q.3a What are the different types of housing? (05 marks)
Q.3b What do you understand by factor affecting residential location.
Explain with an example. (05 marks)
Or
Q.3b Explain the following in detail. (Any Two) (05 marks)
i. Low cost Housing
ii. Squatter
iii. Slum
Q.4a What do you understand by Housing Finance. (05 marks)
Or
Q.4a What are the different Financing Organisations for Housing
Development Process?
(05 marks)
Q.4b How should you design Housing for disaster prone areas? (05 marks)
Or
Q.4b What do you understand by development control regulations?
Why should it be followed, explain with an example. (05 marks)
Q.5 What are the different policies for Affordable Housing? Explain (10 marks)
Or
Q.5 What is Affordable Housing? Why is it a relative term?
Explain different issues in developing Affordable Housing (10 marks)