The Hindu       11.11.2014 

DDA holds successful trial runs of the draw

The applicants of the Delhi Development Authority’s Housing Scheme, 2014 will have to wait some more time for the draw of lots, which was earlier tentatively scheduled for Monday.

The DDA on Monday held successful trial runs of the draw and they will continue “as an effort is being made to compress the time being taken for the draw”.

Meanwhile, the uncertainty over the date of the draw also continues. It is not likely to happen on November 12, which was the tentative date, as the DDA gave another chance to applicants to get corrections made in their forms.

This time around, the applicants can directly report the corrections to the director (systems) DDA.

“...initially the data was taking more time for the draw and now it is being reduced to the minimum possible. Secondly, the data received from Punjab National Bank, one of the designated banks, is incomplete and corrections are still being received from the banks,” the DDA said.

“Considering this scenario, it has been decided to give/provide another opportunity to the applicants by the DDA so that they can check discrepancies in application filed by them and the data displayed on its website and report the same directly to the director (systems) at 24694157 for corrections. The applicants can check the data on November 11 and 12 and report the same to director (systems). This has been necessitated as till date corrections are being received and data from Punjab National Bank is still incomplete,” the civic body said.

This is a step taken by the land agency among other measures to make the process of applying in the scheme easy. The DDA has also made arrangements for the applicants to see the draw of lots live on YouTube.

The agency has received a total of 10,08,700 applications for the scheme, which is offering 25,034 flats making it the biggest housing scheme launched by the DDA till date.