CHANDIGARH: The House Allotment Committee, Chandigarh Administration has invited fresh house allotment applications from employees of Chandigarh Administration, Governments of Punjab & Haryana and Punjab & Haryana High Court for various categories of house for the year 2008-09.

An application for the higher and lower categories of houses from the "eligible employees" in Form 'A' along with Form 'D' is to be forwarded to the office of the Secretary, House Allotment Committee through Chief Secretaries of the respective states and the Registrar Punjab & Haryana High Court before January 31, 2008.

All the officers or officials who had earlier applied and their names exist in the old seniority list for a particular category of houses, but have not been allotted house, need not to apply for fresh as their names will be included in the new revised seniority list for the year 2008-2009.

Employees of the Governments of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh Administration and Punjab and Haryana High Court, working on regular basis at Chandigarh , Panchkula or Mohali are eligible for the house allotment. The employees of those departments of UT Administration who have their own Departmental Pool Houses shall not be entitled for the allotment of houses from Chandigarh Administration Pool.

For higher categories of houses, there is no such bar and any eligible employee working in eligible office may apply for it. Higher categories of houses include houses from Type 3 to 9 (old) and type V and VI (new). Lower categories of houses include houses from type 10 to 13 (Old) and type 1 to IV (new).

An employee may apply for a house lower than his entitled category to which he was entitled earlier. He shall be allowed this option only at the time of submitting of application and not thereafter. An officer or official can also apply for one category of houses on prescribed Form 'A' and 'D'.