The Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) and the Odisha State Housing Board (OSHB) distributed ‘Lease Deed’ to more than 100 beneficiaries of different housing schemes at a function here on Saturday.
Total 121 lease deeds, which include 78 of BDA and 43 of OSHB, were handed over to the beneficiaries.
Each beneficiary was given a plant along with their property title document to encourage them planting atree and taking care of it like their family member.
A decision of handing over lease deed to beneficiaries was taken after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had exempted interest in respect of six schemes of BDA and five housing schemes to the tune of over Rs 29.15 crore, giving a huge relief to beneficiaries.
Out of Rs 29.15 crore, the BDA has exempted Rs 19, 20, 88, 000 and State Housing Board waived off around Rs 9.94 crore with regard to execution of lease deed. Minister of Urban Development Pratap Jena was chief guest.
“As many as 2,083 beneficiaries (1,925 of OSHB and 878 of BDA) will be benefitted as they will get their lease deed of their properties in different housing schemes. This has become possible due to our Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik’s visionary leadership and timely step in waiving off interest to the tune of Rs 29.15 crore. Besides, our Chief Minister has made various services available online to citizens for a convenient, efficient, and transparent delivery of services to the people,” the Minister said.
Chairman, Odisha State Housing Board, Priyadarshi Mishra, BDA Vice-Chairman Sanjay Kumar Singh among others spoke. In the event, Singh urged people and beneficiaries to visit Bhubaneswar.me unified portal to avail various services of BDA, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Bhubaneswar Smart City Ltd (BSCL) related to property, payment of holding tax etc.