The National Buildings Organization (NBO), under the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (MOHUPA) is the nodal authority to coordinate and collaborate with State Governments for collection, tabulation and dissemination of statistical information on housing and building construction activities. Urban Statistics for HR & Assessment (USHA) is a Central Sector Scheme which is provided by the Ministry of Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation (MOHUPA), annually to the Directorate of Economics & Statistics to meet the expenditures for carrying out activities related to Housing and Building construction statistics.
The key objective of USHA is to strengthen and support the statistical system in States/Directorate of Economics and Statistics, so as to develop a coherent and consistent system of data collection and data flow mechanism in DES on housing and building construction sector.
The NBO has identified 3(three) districts namely Shillong, Jowai and Tura in which data/information on Housing & Building Construction is collected from. However, Building Material Prices and Wages of building construction labour is collected from 7(seven) districts namely; Shillong, Jowai, Tura, Nongpoh, Nongstoin, Williamnagar and Baghmara.
The data on Housing and Building construction related activities is collected by the DES from different sources in the State, such as Meghalaya Urban Development Authority (MUDA), Retail shops and Construction sites using formats/guidelines prescribed by the National Buildings Organisation (NBO). The activities under the Scheme ‘USHA’ are as follows :
i.Collection and Compilation of data on Building Material Prices
ii.Collection and Compilation of Wages of building construction labour.
iii.Collection and Compilation of data on building permits issued for new residential buildings.
iv.Collection and Compilation of data on Total number of building permits issued and total number of completion certificates.
v. Collection and Compilation of data on dilapidated/dangerous/unauthorised buildings.
The above data is collected on a quarterly basis. The data collected is entered, validated and transmitted online to NBO through Building Related Information Knowledge System (BRIKS). The same data can be accessed on www.briks.gov.in