DDA says will not scrap list of successful applicants
Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Monday said it will not scrap the entire list of successful applicants, but will ensure that ineligible applicants didn't get the allotment letter.
By Agencies |
NEW DELHI: Delhi Development Authority (DDA) on Monday said it will not scrap the entire list of successful applicants, but will ensure that ineligible applicants didn't get the allotment letter. The urban development agency denied allegations of irregularity in the recent draw to allot over 5000 houses in the national capital.
"The draw was fair and transparent. We can't say for sure that no applicant has engaged in forgery, but we are scruitinising the details provided by applicants and can assure you that no allotment will be made to a wrong person," DDA Housing Commissioner Asma Manzar told mediapersons. She said it was impossible to check the veracity of details provided by all applicants before the draw, given the enormous number of applicantions.
DDA received around 6 lakh applications for 5000 homes. An applicant has to submit PAN card, address proof and photograph with the applicantion form. Once the results of the draw is announced, DDA tries to verify the details provided by applicants.
Ms Manzar said the authority was open to probe and was coopertaing with Delhi Police, which has begun an inquiry after media reports alleged that some property brokers had connived with DDA officials to get homes, in general and reserved categories, alloted to certain non-existent applicants.
All the houses to be alloted this time round would be free-hold properties that is an allotte will have the right to sell that property. Ms Manzar said DDA has also urged the government to bar owners of homes in reserved categories to sell their homes to a person from the same categories in order to ensure that benefits remained confined to that section of the society, for which it was originally meant.
"The draw was fair and transparent. We can't say for sure that no applicant has engaged in forgery, but we are scruitinising the details provided by applicants and can assure you that no allotment will be made to a wrong person," DDA Housing Commissioner Asma Manzar told mediapersons. She said it was impossible to check the veracity of details provided by all applicants before the draw, given the enormous number of applicantions.
DDA received around 6 lakh applications for 5000 homes. An applicant has to submit PAN card, address proof and photograph with the applicantion form. Once the results of the draw is announced, DDA tries to verify the details provided by applicants.
Ms Manzar said the authority was open to probe and was coopertaing with Delhi Police, which has begun an inquiry after media reports alleged that some property brokers had connived with DDA officials to get homes, in general and reserved categories, alloted to certain non-existent applicants.
All the houses to be alloted this time round would be free-hold properties that is an allotte will have the right to sell that property. Ms Manzar said DDA has also urged the government to bar owners of homes in reserved categories to sell their homes to a person from the same categories in order to ensure that benefits remained confined to that section of the society, for which it was originally meant.
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