DDA’s festive offer: 15,000 flats
Tuesday, 19 October 2010 10:42
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Indian Express 19.10.2010
DDA’s festive offer: 15,000 flats
Mandakini Gahlot Tags : Delhi Development Authority, housing scheme, festive offer Posted: Tue Oct 19 2010, 08:05 hrs New Delhi: The Delhi Development Authority is getting set to announce a mega housing scheme under which 15,000 flats will be up for allotment, through the authority’s usual lottery system, across various areas in the Capital.
Sources in the DDA have confirmed to Newsline that the authority hopes to float the scheme no later than the second week of November. The authority, in August this year, had said it would announce the scheme before the Commonwealth Games in September. “We are working on the final modalities of the housing scheme, which will be announced by September,” DDA vice-chairman Ashok Rai had said.
Officials in the authority said with attention completely focused on the Games, the DDA could not announce the scheme in September. However, with ‘watch and ward’ or the maintenance costs rapidly piling on completed flats, the authority is keen to begin the process of allotting.
Watch and ward costs entail hiring of security personnel to guard completed units to ensure that fittings and fixtures are not stolen.
The 15,000 flats will include housing under the four major categories, High Income Group (HIG), Middle Income Group (MIG), Low Income Group (LIG) and Economic Welfare Scheme (EWS). The DDA is yet to release exact figures of how many houses will fall in each category.
“We are still in the process of compiling all data, which includes information about categories, and other issues. The Housing department is working on it,” an official said. DDA V-C had announced, in August, that these flats will be in areas such as Vasant Kunj, Dwarka, Jasola, Narela among others, and will also include approximately 4,000 flats in D-6 Vasant Kunj which were used to house domestic technical staff during the Games.
The scheme will not include the Commonwealth Games Village flats, which the DDA hopes to sell at market rates separately. “Like all DDA houses, the 15,000 houses will be put to lottery at extremely competent rates, well below the market rates offered by private developers,” an official said.
The new scheme will also introduce DDA’s new maintenance policy. Under the new policy, maintenance charges will be added to the cost of the flats. The maintenance charge will cover 30 years of maintenance to be carried out by the DDA, including tasks such as painting and rectifying flaws in the external structure.
The DDA announced its last scheme in September 2008, when 5,328 houses were put to draw.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 10:44
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HUDA to distribute sites soon
Tuesday, 19 October 2010 06:04
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The Deccan Herald 19.10.2010
HUDA to distribute sites soon
Hassan, October 18, DHNS:
If the authorities of the Hassan Urban Development Authority(HUDA) are to be believed, applications will be called soon for distribution of sites at S M Krishna Layout in Hassan.
The proposal to develop this Krishna layout was proposed nearly a decade ago. But, the project has failed to take off till now owing to hurdles over acquisition of land. Now it is learnt that the Government had given its approval for forming 1,000 sites on the land which is free from any controversy.
Deputy Commissioner Naveen Raj Singh, who is also Chairman of the HUDA told Deccan Herald that the authority had completed formalities for inviting applications. To make the who process transperant, it is coming out with a software for filing applications online mode is made for the first time.
The new system would be in place in next 15-20 days.
The HUDA had acquired 453 acres of land for developing the layout and a cricket stadium.
It wanted to handover land Karnataka State Cricket Association to develop the stadium. However, the proposal caught in legal wrangles which stopped the work on the layout.
Interestingly, HUDA is paying ut Rs 36,000 as interest on loans raised from a local bank to pay compensation to farmers whose land had been acquired for the purpose of forming the layout. The early distribution of land would help paying interest and principal to bank. The “HUDA has reached an agreement with the bank to waive off interest amount in exchange for one-time return of loan,” he said.
The project was conceived during the tenure of then Chief Minister S M Krishna. However, the it never realised after the ouster of Congress Government and change in political equations.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 06:12
General body clears 3 plots for purchase under JVPD scheme
Wednesday, 13 October 2010 10:28
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Indian Express 13.10.2010
General body clears 3 plots for purchase under JVPD scheme
Express News Service Tags : scheme, Juhu Vile Parle Development, JVPD Posted: Wed Oct 13 2010, 04:02 hrs Mumbai: The BMC’s general body on Tuesday passed purchase notices for only three plots under Juhu Vile Parle Development (JVPD) scheme reserved for public amenities. The civic body’s Improvements Committee had earlier decided to buy five plots out of nine in JVPD scheme at a cost of Rs 450 crore.
According to the Ready Reckoner rates, the four plots are worth over Rs 470 crore — plots for a library (2980 sq metre) worth Rs 49 crore, playground (18,700 sq metre) worth Rs 307.81 crore, market (265 sq metre) worth Rs 4.3 crore and a garden (7,565 sq metre) worth Rs 117.2 crore. Currently, the purchase notice for a plot which has a reservation for international library and another for a playground are pending before the general body of the BMC. The reservation for one of these plots will lapse in December and another in January.
“Our ultimate aim is to leave no stone unturned to acquire open space in a transparent manner,” said Manoj Kotak, chairman of Improvements Committee. “Delaying these decisions till the last minute will not help,” he said. “We will ensure that the two purchase notices which are pending will also be acquired soon.” The BMC decided to purchase the plots from JVPD Cooperative Housing Association, a group of 14 housing societies that have held the plots since 1960, after the society served purchase notices to the BMC asking it to pay the estimated market price and buy the four plots.
Earlier this year, the JVPD societies had served purchase notices to the BMC, which means the BMC needs to buy these reserved plots in order to keep them reserved as public spaces. The civic body will have to buy these plots by January 2011 when the reservation of the plots lapses and the owner of the plot is free to decide how to use the land according to the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, section 127.
The buying back of public amenity plots in the JVPD scheme had also raised questions from several quarters as these will benefit only a selected few around the locality, according to some corporators. “Why are we spending so much money for selected public spaces in such posh areas,” asked a corporator. Meanwhile, the general body meeting also passed the purchase notice for a 1000 sq metre open space in Mazgaon reserved for recreation ground. The deadline for the acquisition will lapse on October 13. The purchase notice for the 1,000 square-metre plot is of Rs 2.58 crore. The plot is owned by the state government, but had been leased to the civic body which had further sub-leased it to the developers. Under the civic body’s development plan, however, the plot has been reserved as a recreational ground.
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