CHB will handover 512 small flats in Sector 38 W and 576 in Ramdarbar

Chandigarh, June 23:- The officials of Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) have been aggressively pursuing for several months for finishing up various ongoing housing schemes under various categories including General Housing Scheme, Small Flats Scheme and Economically Weaker Section. Now there focus will also be on the allotments of houses along with the construction work as this year CHB is going to handover around 2400 houses under various categories.

          CHB officials informed that this year CHB will handover 512 small flats in Sector 38 W and 576 in Ramdarbar with approximate cost of Rs. 9 crores and Rs. 10 crores, respectively, under the Chandigarh Administration's most prestigious Slum Rehabilitation Project of making the city Slum Free. In addition to this, CHB has already completed 288 houses in Sector 38 W at a cost of around Rs. 9 crores  and 400 units in Sector 49 with an approximate cost of Rs. 12 crores for EWS, for which allotments have already been done and soon these houses will be handed over to their beneficiaries. It was also informed that another chunk of 160 houses under the same category would be completed by December 2009 in Sector 26 (E) at a cost of around Rs. 4.5 crores, for which the allotment process will be initiated with in two months.

          The small flats coming up in Sector 38 W are four storeyed with an approximate area of 307 square feet for each unit, where as one room flats being constructed under the EWS are of 425 square feet per unit.

Under the General Housing Scheme the Board will complete a total of 464 houses including 208 two bedroom and 256 one bedroom in Sector 49 by August 2009 at an estimated cost of Rs. 40 crores. Other than this, CHB is also constructing 320 one room flats in Sector 56 under Dr. Ambedkar Awaas Yojana, being implemented on behalf of Department of Social Welfare. The flats will be handed over by December 2009.   

UT Finance Secretary, Mr. Sanjay Kumar said that in the process of making Chandigarh a Slum Free city, CHB has been assigned the task of constructing around 25000 slum dwelling units, of which around 11,000 houses will be handed over to the slum dwelling families by the end of 2010. However, CHB will give possession of around 1100 houses this year. Once the project, with an approximate cost of Rs. 1115 cores, is completed all the identified 23,841 slum dwelling families will be rehabilitated in these units, thus making the city slum free, added Mr. Kumar. 

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By :  News Team