8500 allottees surrender DDA flats

NEW DELHI: Around 8,500 allottees, almost one-third, of a housing scheme of Delhi Development Authority ( DDA) have surrendered their flats, Rajya Sabha was informed today.

"DDA has informed that as on December 4 this year nearly 8,500 allottees, who were allocated flats under Housing Scheme-2014 have surrendered their flats," Minister of State for Urban Development Babul Supriyo said in a written reply.

In majority of the cases, the allottees have not provided any specific reasons for surrender, he said.

Supriyo, however, said some of the reasons as reported included not liking the location or area of the allotted flats and not finding the builtu-up area of the allotted flats sufficient.

DDA has also informed that authority had decided to convert a large number of flats, which were to be built for economically weaker section category, to low income group residential units in the scheme.

The DDA offered the surrendered flats to the waitlisted registrants as per the terms of the scheme and the remaining flats were disposed off by launching a new housing scheme.

The DDA had in September last year rolled out nearly 25,000 flats via a lottery system in suburban areas including Dwarka, Rohini and Narela.