First of all, the design of the manual itself is the important thing when you are developing a guidance. For example, this is a zone A, this is how the coding is worked so now, it says UPA 01, UP is Uttar Pradesh, A is what is the zone and within the zone, you might have 2, 3 typologies, so that is where the typology number. So, for example when you say, the state name and then zone; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, like that.

They are all classified by vulnerability to natural hazards, physiographic and access to building materials and the cultural compatibility. Here, they have even described what actually this zone A comprises of in the high vulnerability especially to floods and what kind of floods they are talking about, what kind of riverbank erosions, they are talking about and you know, it is also talking about what kind of elevations and the forest cover.

In the zone A, where we talk about high vulnerability and medium vulnerability cyclonic storms and mostly, low vulnerability riverbank erosion, here, this particular typology, this is a typology of a house where they try to document it and this response to brick masonry houses with three-inch walls which are most common.

This is an effort, how one can validate these rural housing typology which are already existing you know, so how structurally one can validate how, so that earlier whatever the rural technology exists, they try to ignore it and they try to give their own uniform and standardized solution but this is an effort, how we can bring that local character still and how we can validate those techniques.

Then, comes to the cost estimate, you know the cost estimate for zone A, design one so, when we talk about cost estimate, it covers excavation, brick soiling, PCC, brickwork foundation, brickwork about plinth, concrete, what is the ratio we are talking about 1:1.5:3 always it’s a multiple of the aggregates and the reinforcement steel truss and then GCI sheet and door, window cement and plaster.

Similarly, there are efforts in Pakistan in countries like Pakistan, there have been a guidebook for technicians and artisans, they call it as artisans. Like in India, also in Himachal and as well as in Uttarakhand, we have the Dhajji wall constructions where it can go of the one and two storey earthquake-resistant houses, where you have the timber frames and the embedded whether it is a stone embedded, whether it is cobbles or pebbles.

They have developed the technical manuals of doing this Dhajji constructions. And also, the retaining walls if you are constructing in these hilly areas, what are the methods one has to approach in constructing the retaining walls.