As last updated on 02 January 2025, on www.WA.gov.au:
If you are thinking about owner-building your own home or small commercial building, you will need to have been granted owner-builder approval from the Building Services Board before you can be granted a building permit from your local government authority.
Indian bureaucracy is globally-notorious, but in at least some parts of Rajasthan, the “DIY housing sector” is subject to very much less “regulation” than is Western Australia’s.
The pictured Thar Desert “owner-builders” probably do not actually “own” their self-built home, nor enjoy any form of “secure” tenancy therein.
I took the photo just before nightfall on 17 February 2020; I think the pictured couple had just returned home, after their working day.
Average daily maximum temperature in this area during May: 42.2 °C.
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