When Floodwaters Rise, This Home Rises Too: Meet the Engineer Who Built It for Just Rs 6 Lakh
Reported byThe Better India ↗·Sourced by Goodlede
Engineer Prashant Kumar built India's first climate-resilient floating house along the Ganga in Bihar, designed to rise with floodwaters. The three-room structure uses locally sourced and recycled materials within a 10 km radius, reducing environmental footprint while providing flood resilience in an area devastated by monsoon flooding.
This is a single prototype installation; scaling to flood-prone communities across Bihar would require further testing, infrastructure support, and cost analysis.
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