Haryana Housing Board has decided that transfer of economically weaker section (EWS) flat or dwelling unit (DU) should be allowed after five years of allotment keeping in view the policy of Haryana Town and Country Planning Department notified in 2013.
The period for transfer would now be curtailed from existing 13 years to five years after allotment, said chairman, Haryana Housing Board, Jawahar Yadav.
He said that a decision to this effect was taken in a meeting of the Board held under his chairmanship, recently.
Since, there was no such time restriction in case of other categories such as low Income Group (lIG), Middle Income Group (MIG) and Higher Income Group (HIG) houses, therefore, in such cases transfer of dwelling unit should be allowed after allotment and after receipt of entire consideration amount by Housing Board Haryana. If the allottee deposits the entire cost of the flat or DU soon after issuance of allotment letter, there is no reason to restrain him from transferring the flat to some other person, he added.
Yadav said that for disposal of unsold housing stock of Housing Board Haryana, it has been decided that the EWS or BPl houses cannot be offered to general public, without offering them to EWS or BPl families, therefore all such houses should be re-advertised for the categories for which they were initially floated.
It should be specified in the re-advertisement, that these houses are being offered second time and in case sufficient applications are not received and the houses are again left un-allotted, they would be offered to general public in lIG category, said the Housing Board chairman.
He said that these houses should be offered under installment scheme, i.e., initial 10 per cent alongwith application, 15 per cent after draw of lots and remaining 75 per cent in equated half-yearly installments for five years. It has been decided that all these houses would be advertised at the earliest and not later than first week of June 2017.
Approval of Government would be taken for relaxation in conditions or policy for disposal of these houses. These conditions would be applicable for these unallotted or surrendered houses and it would not be applicable to new schemes launched as a general policy, he added.
Yadav said that it has also been decided to amend Regulation 12 of Housing Board Haryana (Allotment Management and Sale of Tenements) Regulations 1972 to the extent that in case the applicant withdraws his application till the date of offer of house by the Board, 50 per cent (presently it is 10 per cent) of the amount deposited with application at the time of registration would be forfeited.
Similarly, the Board also decided to amend Regulation 13 of Housing Board Haryana (Allotment Management and Sale of Tenements) Regulations 1972 to the extent that in case the applicant fails to take possession of the allotted tenement within 30 days from the date of receipt of allotment letter or surrenders the same at any time, 90 per cent (presently it is 50 per cent) of the amount deposited with application at the time of registration would be forfeited to the Board and balance would be refunded to him without interest, he said.
He added that the Board also considered the issue of BPl allotments, wherein the applicant was BPl card holder at the time of floatation of scheme or registration, but by the time the flats are built and constructed, his name was struck off from BPl list of the district. It has been decided that in all such cases eligibility would be checked on the last date of registration and not at the time of allotment.