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How green buildings in India will enhance your quality of life

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Challenging environment: How green buildings in India will enhance your quality of life While the Environment ministry headed by the Union Minister for Environment and Forests, Prakash Javadekar is formulating a set of standard guidelines for giving environmental clearances to real estate sector, this should be recognised as a signal to scale up energy efficient and green buildings in India. Environmental regulations will push the demand for green buildings, say experts. And the residential real estate sector is the biggest focus area in this regard. Earlier in January this year, (GBCI) and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) Ministry of Power, Government of India signed a landmark agreement with the goal of spurring energy efficiency progress in building sectors. If one were to see the market potential for green buildings in India, green buildings don't even account for 5% of the current stock. Hence, there is a huge potential. According to Dodge Data &