DDA selects 12,617 applicants for lottery under its housing scheme

By Realty Quarter Bureau

Delhi Development Authority conducted a transparent method to generate the lottery using the generation technique.

People having no boundaries of happiness and are super thrilled in seeing their name in list of successful applicants for the housing scheme 2017 on Thursday. 100 plus people turned up at the office of DDA and almost 50,000 plus saw it live on webcast said an official.

JP Agrawal, principal commissioner housing DDA said, the seed numbers for applicants and flats were picked in the presence of many people. The entire process was computerized.

The land-owning authority, which had been planning for this scheme for over a year, had received close to 46,000 applications for the flats — a majority of which were returned by allottees of the 2014 housing scheme. The flats were returned due to various factors, including small room sizes and lack of infrastructure in these areas. “But we have got a good response this time. By the time we start handing over the flats, the pending infrastructure work will be completed,” said an official.