As it becomes quite evident through the government definitions as well, also where the roots of misconceptions are, that the role of portrayal of a material plays an integral part in how the population perceives it. Kutcha & Pucca are terms that are used in layman language across the country, that carry a literal meaning of an object being temporary & permanent, respectively. Local construction techniques that have lasted for thousands of years are generalized as temporary. In the recent decades, a drastic change is seen in the rural context of India, where people opt to build using the modern materials since they are termed as Pucca. Irrespective of what the local climate demands, to overcome the tag of Kutcha, which has become a societal taboo, the rural population has drifted off from their original construction methods to build using the new conventional methods of construction.
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