Haryana gives two percent reservation to senior citizens in house allotment

CHANDIGARH:While recognising the contribution made by the senior citizen in the development of the State, the Haryana Housing Board has provided two per cent reservation in the allotment of houses for those senior citizens who have attained the age of 60 years.

While stating this here Sunday, a spokesman of the Board said that for the first time, 1.5 per cent reservation has also been provided to the accredited correspondents. Housing Board, Haryana was the first Housing Board in the country to provide 33 per cent reservation of the total houses and flats constructed by it for women applicants to improve their socio-economic  status, he added.

The State Government has framed a policy to transfer 50 per cent plots for economically weaker sections of the society carved out by colonizers in the plotted colonies for which licenses have been issued by Department of Town and Country Planning, Haryana for BPL category. He said that sofar the Board had taken over the possession of 453 plots at Ratia, District Fatehabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Dharuhera. The process to take possession of over about 1000 developed plots at Gurgaon, Sonepat, Panipat, Karnal and Faridabad was in progress, out of 3400 plots offered so far in various districts.He said that the Chief Minister, Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda has already announced several incentives for the weaker sections of the society.

He said that about 43 acres of land under various Municipal Committees of Rohtak, Ambala, Cheeka, Karnal and Pehowa had been identified where about 3500 houses of different categories, mainly for lower strata of the society would be planned. The Board had already purchased 18.75 acres of land at Sector-5, Hansi and six acres of land at Sector-1, Narnaul from HUDA, where about 1222 houses of different categories would be constructed.

The spokesman said that during this year, Housing Board, Haryana had launched housing schemes comprising 2932 houses at Industrial Estates, Bawal and  Barhi, Sector-4, Hisar; Sector-9, Bahadurgarh; Sector-19, Sirsa; Sector-4&5, Karnal and Sector-8, Jind. Construction work of 802 houses at Hisar, Karnal, Bawal and Barhi was in progress and construction of balance 2130 houses would be started shortly as tenders for these works were under process. The construction of 3085 houses valuing Rs. 186.50 crore was in progress at Panchkula, Kurukshetra, Karnal, Hisar, Bhiwani, Sonipat, Gurgaon, Bawal, Barhi and Faridabad, he added.