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New Delhi, June 27: The Delhi Development Authority on Tuesday announced it will roll out the scheme for sale of more than 12000 flats across the Delhi on June 30. The scheme already missed the deadline twice in February and Mid-June, reported PTI. DDA officials said the arrangements for rolling out the scheme was put in place. On missing the deadlines, officials said the building of street lights along with completion of other infrastructure projects took the authority too long to introduce the scheme. The official also said the brochures for the schemes are already printed.
Drawing lessons from the previous sale, the authority changed the rules to deter non-serious buyers from the sale.
“If a prospective buyer surrenders his application before the date of draws, no money will be deducted from his or her registration fee. If a buyer does so after the draw but before the issue of a demand letter, 25 per cent of the registration fee will be forfeited,” an official had earlier said.
If the flat is surrendered within 90 days of the issue of the demand letter, 50 per cent of the fee would be cut. “Beyond that time period, the entire registration fee will be forfeited,” he said.
For the LIG (Lower Income Group) category, the registration fee will be Rs 1 lakh while for Middle Income Group and High Income Group flats, Rs 2 lakh will be charged.
The urban body has tied up with 10 banks for the sale of application forms and scheme-related transactions. The banks are Axis Bank, Yes Bank, IDBI, Bank of Baroda, Central Bank, SBI, Kotak Mahindra, HDFC, ICICI and Canara Bank.
“People are free to visit the areas where the flats are being offered. We have also removed the lock-in period clause, as we realised this was also a factor in buyers surrendering flats. This is also to keep a check on those elements who do market speculation,” he said.
Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, who is also the DDA chairman, had instructed senior officials to ensure that adequate public transport connectivity and other necessary basic infrastructure were put in place before the launch of the new scheme. Baijal has already given his approval to the scheme.
Under the rules, a husband and a wife can apply for the scheme but if both get an allotment, one of them will have to give it up. Sources said most of the flats were one-bedroom LIG flats from the last housing scheme.
“About 10,000 are LIG flats from the 2014 DDA scheme.
Unlike the EWS (Economically Weaker Section) category last time, in this scheme there will be no such category,” the official said.
Application forms will be available both online and offline, he said.
The DDA this time has planned to put the scheme online –for forms for application, refund and so on – to reduce long queues of flat buyers at its headquarters.
(With inputs from PTI)
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