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With urbanization, population is at it hike and current status in the construction industry is to develop large scale affordable housing for the necessity of urban India. The construction industry is the primary energy-consuming industry and even emits many greenhouse gasses. It drains around 38% of the total energy globally, not including water and other essential resources. All of this is contributing to global warming and environmental misbalance. While catering such high housing stock we have to consider its impact on environment first. It is extremely important to think about environment before us. The trends in construction industry has highlighted the green building features and need for affordable building and thus unifying both to form green affordable building module which will be the best option for E.W.S and L.I.G category. But these benefits are not visible be consumer and even people from industry and thus this research tries to investigate to investigate the awareness about green building and the new concept of affordable green building and challenges faced in its implementation and major barrier in its way.