DDA’s Festive Offer: 15,000 flats
New Delhi: The Delhi Development Authority is getting set to announce a mega housing scheme under which 15,000 flats will be up for allotment, through the authority’s usual lottery system, across various areas in the Capital.
Sources in the DDA have confirmed to Express Newsline that the authority hopes to float the scheme no later than the second week of November. The authority, in August this year, had said it would announce the scheme before the Commonwealth Games in September.
"We are working on the final modalities of the housing scheme, which will be announced by September," DDA vice-chairman Ashok Rai had said.
Officials in the authority said with attention completely focused on the Games, the DDA could not announce the scheme in September. However, with 'watch and ward' or the maintenance costs rapidly piling on completed flats, the authority is keen to begin the process of allotting.
Watch and ward costs entail hiring of security personnel to guard completed units to ensure that fittings and fixtures are not stolen.
The 15,000 flats will include housing under the four major categories, High Income Group (HIG), Middle Income Group (MIG), Low Income Group (LIG) and Economic Welfare Scheme (EWS). The DDA is yet to release exact figures of how many houses will fall in each category.
"We are still in the process of compiling all data, which includes information about categories, and other issues. The Housing department is working on it," an official said. DDA V-C had announced, in August, that these flats will be in areas such as Vasant Kunj, Dwarka, Jasola, Narela among others, and will also include approximately 4,000 flats in D-6 Vasant Kunj which were used to house domestic technical staff during the Games.
The scheme will not include the Commonwealth Games Village flats, which the DDA hopes to sell at market rates separately.
"Like all DDA houses, the 15,000 houses will be put to lottery at extremely competent rates, well below the market rates offered by private developers," an official said.
The new scheme will also introduce DDA's new maintenance policy. Under the new policy, maintenance charges will be added to the cost of the flats. The maintenance charge will cover 30 years of maintenance to be carried out by the DDA, including tasks such as painting and rectifying flaws in the external structure.
The DDA announced its last scheme in September 2008, when 5,328 houses were put to draw.
Source: The Indian Express
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