New Delhi: According to an official press release, the newly established Central Universities have recently been advised to design and construct their buildings as 'green buildings'.

The basic feature of 'green buildings' include energy efficient designing of the envelope, conservation of natural resources, integration of renewable energy systems into the design, and use of energy efficient devices in the building.

"The cost of construction of such buildings will be met out of the grants released by the University Grants Commission (UGC) for campus development while, no separate allocation has been made in the XI Plan specifically for implementation of the concept of ‘green buildings’ in development of campuses of the Central Universities," said the Minister of State for Human Resource Development (HRD) D. Purandeswari, in a written reply to a question, in the Lok Sabha today.