The Schedule of Rates formulated by the Public Works Department, Govt. of Orissa is based on the conventional technologies and has hardly left any scope to accommodate the innovative appropriate technologies. It is this schedule that gets followed by the Government for their construction of public buildings and other built infrastructure. Personal conviction by engineers/ administrators is not enough, codal provisions must back them. Efforts have been made and are continuing but introduction of something new is time-taking, the paraphernalia is cumbersome. This stands as a major bottleneck for the adoption of the technologies on a large scale which is quite essential for the community for economic reasons.

The support services for facilitating housing movement were rendered primarily by the UNVs, who were paid living allowances from this mother project. The pace at which this human resource support reduced over the years was not matching with what the market could offer so fast. The anticipation that the UNVs, now turned DTs, could compensate the loss from their independent source of earning was difficult to materialise. However, the movement is still on and gaining momentum with bigger and wider peoples’ support.

From realistic point of view, the location of the villages in far flung places with no or poor communication, occurrence of disasters in a periodic manner, a traditional society observing lots of festivals have retarded the pace of the movement quite often.

Non availability of building materials, lack of institutional finance, prevalence of masons with less skills and low literacy levels, over and above the lack of aspirations/ confidence to build a good house have acted as some of the barriers.

Any innovative approach requires mustering support from the prevailing administrative system. With all the efforts made at the grassroots through cadres of trained masons – the true catalysts for technology transfer, the movement lies confined to some geographical regions only. It is the acceptance and approval of the Govt. system through official adoption that can lead to policy impacts and wide spread proliferation of the movement. This task has been but partially successful. More hope for the movement perhaps lies with the masons who are confidently building their own houses first, using these appropriate technologies to demonstrate their self-confidence, thus helping the housing movement to expand.