Date:12/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/08/12/stories/2008081253600400.htm

New Delhi

Over 1 lakh low cost housing forms sold

Staff Reporter

August 14 remains last date for sale

‘Scrutiny of the applicants would begin soon after the last date of receipt of forms’

NEW DELHI: The low cost housing scheme of the Delhi Government has had a tremendous response thus far with nearly 1.10 lakh forms being sold on the first five days of opening of the scheme. While the last date for sale of forms is August 14, the last date for receipt of filled up forms is September 5. Under the scheme 10,000 houses are being offered to the poor at highly subsidised rates and on easy instalments.

Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said on Monday that the application forms were in great demand and she declared the scrutiny of the applicants would begin soon after the last date of receipt of forms.

Noting that the forms were being sold through 54 centres across the city, she said the filled forms would also be received there.

To begin with 10,000 flats in Bawana and Bapraula are being offered under the scheme while in all over four lakh houses would be constructed under it for rehabilitating the urban poor and residents of jhuggi-jhonpri clusters who had been displaced from their tenements.

Delhi Government officials said as many as 28,086 forms were sold on August 9 alone and the maximum number of 19,251 forms have been sold in North-West Delhi.