Need-based changes: Chandigarh Housing Board allottees again pitch for Delhi pattern

Chandigarh, January 16

Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) allottees have reiterated their demand for regularisation of need-based changes in their dwelling units on the Delhi pattern.

During a meeting on regularisation of the need-based changes in CHB houses held at the Community Centre, Sector 40, Mayor Sarabjit Kaur, former Deputy Mayor and councillor Gurbax Rawat, councillor Gurpreet Singh (ward 34) and two directors of the CHB Poonam Sharma and Hitesh Puri listened to the demands of residents.

Representatives from all housing board sectors suggested the Delhi pattern as a solution to regularisation of need-based changes in CHB flats. The residents demanded that notices on old constructions or need-based changes should not be served to them until the Delhi solution was implemented. They demanded that transfer of properties should not be stopped because of changes made in their flats. Residents demanded that transfers based on GPA, valid before September 2011, should be accepted.

Hitesh Puri and Poonam Sharma, both directors of the CHB, assured the residents that they would take up the demands of residents at the next meeting of the committee formed to review need-based changes made by residents, scheduled for January 19, and would try to get maximum relief for them. The Mayor said she would also take up the issues with the Administration.