{"id":28450,"date":"2025-10-27T06:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28450"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:39:58","slug":"svagriha-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/svagriha-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"SVAGRIHA Rating"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About SVAGRIHA Rating:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SVAGRIHA rating that stands for <strong>Simple Versatile Affordable GRIHA<\/strong> \u2013 supports the concept of green buildings and sustainability under <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/green-rating-for-integrated-habitat-assessment\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA)<\/strong><\/a><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Itis a <strong>guidance-cum-rating system<\/strong> being developed for small stand alone buildings like residences, commercial offices, motels, dispensaries, schools etc.<\/li>\n<li>It has been developed in order to help reduce the environmental impact of these small developments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating system<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It will be <strong>applicable only for projects<\/strong> which are <strong>less than 2500 sq.m. built-up area.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The rating system <strong>has 14 criteria.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Criteria:<\/strong> The <strong>criteria<\/strong> are divided into <strong>5 broad sub-groups<\/strong> namely: <strong>architecture &amp; energy, water &amp; waste, materials, landscape and lifestyle.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will be mandatory to attempt certain points under each sub-group. The total points that a project can <strong>achieve are 50<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The rating will be done on a <strong>1-5 star scale.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Kalughat Intermodal Terminal<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one among several infrastructural interventions made by the Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) for capacity augmentation of <strong>National Waterway 1 \u2013 River Ganga.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>received five star rating<\/strong> for its efforts to ensure environmental sustainability by ensuring usage of recyclable materials like fibre, recyclable glasses, paint, sanitary fixtures etc during the building of the terminal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the GRIHA Rating system?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an acronym for Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment. GRIHA is a Sanskrit word meaning \u2013 &#8216;Abode&#8217;. It is a rating tool that helps people assesses the performance of their building against certain nationally acceptable benchmarks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2080813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IWAI\u2019s Kalughat IMT gets recognition for sustainable infrastructure project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SVAGRIHA Rating supports the concept of green buildings and sustainability under Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}