Rejects call for 80% reservation of flats for Delhiiites in 2014 Housing Scheme
The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Thursday rejected the proposal of allowing 80 per cent reservation of flats for Delhiiites in the upcoming 2014 Housing Scheme. While the final date of launching the scheme will be announced on Friday, Delhi lieutenant Governor on Thursday’s board meeting cleared the biggest ever housing scheme in the national Capital.
Several new clauses in the scheme were tabled in the DDA’s authority meeting, chaired by lG Najeeb Jung. The lG along with the housing agency, however, dropped the proposal to give a reservation of 80 per cent flats for residents of Delhi. “The step to keep aside 80 per cent of the housing units for Delhi residents has been scrapped. It
would have been grossly unfair on the part of lakhs of other interested applicants who live in the National Capital Region (NCR),” said Balvinder Kumar, vice chairman, DDA.
Besides, the authority approved the new clause of holding ownership rights of allottees for the first five years. “The board approved the clause under which the registration of the flats will take place after five years. This is to prevent people from participating in the scheme for a purely speculative purpose,” Kumar added.
The much-awaited scheme comes four years after the DDA offered over 16,000 flats under its 2010 scheme. Earlier, the DDA used to announce housing schemes every two years, leading to a major housing crunch in Delhi. The latest scheme will offer 25,600 flats. The number of single-bedroom flats — at 24,044 flats, the scheme’s biggest component - is also the highest to be offered by the DDA. The houses will be spread across Rohini, Narela and Dwarka priced at `14 lakh-`15 lakh to `1 crore.
About 10 lakh brochures will be printed. The one-bedroom flats will have a carpet area of 28 sq. metre. Combined with the common space, the total area covered by a flat comes to 32 sq. metre. These flats have been constructed using green technology and a huge corpus fund — `300 crore — for the maintenance of the flats over the next 30 years.