Delhi Lieutenant-Governor (L-G) Vinai Kumar Saxena directed the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to ensure that the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) quota flats are allotted on the basis of the family income which should be less than `10 lakh per annum, as certificated by the competent authority. The DDA has also decided to dispose religious category plots via public auction mode in future to ensure transparency and efficiency, instead of the allotment mode used earlier. The decision was taken at the authority meeting chaired by the L-G on Wednesday.
According to a Press statement issued by the DDA, it was decided that people applying for DDA flats under the EWS category, are required to submit two documents. One is a document certifying that the individual annual income of the allottee is less than `3 lakh and the other a certificate from the Revenue Authority stating that the annual family income of the applicant is less than `10 lakh.
“However, during the meeting, it was also observed that applicants in the EWS category were having difficulty in obtaining a certificate of individual income as most of them fall in the category for whom filing of Income Tax Returns is not mandatory,” it said.
“Therefore, they were not able to submit proof of individual income in terms of Form 16. Other institutional mechanisms certifying their individual income also do not exist. This condition is also considered to be an impediment for the disposal of EWS-category flats,” it added.
However, to facilitate applicants the authority has now approved the abolishment of the requirement of having annual individual income of less than `3 lakh for the applicants.
In another major decision, the authority has approved the disposal of religious category plots via the auction mode. The decision in this regard was pending since 2014.