The DDA has offered about 4,500 of these flats for allotment to organisations such as Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Border Security Force (BSF), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) for accomodation of their personnel deployed in various parts of Delhi, Minister of State (Independent Charge) of Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri said in a written reply.
"The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has intimated that about 6,500 flats allotted under the DDA Aawasiya Yojana-2017, have been surrendered by successful allottees," he said.
"The DDA has sent letters offering about 4,500 of these flats for allotment to organisations such as CISF, BSF, SSB, CRPF for accommodation of their personnel deployed in various parts of Delhi," the minister said, adding the response of these organisations was awaited.
The flats will be allotted to these organisations on "no profit, no loss" basis.
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To a query, the minister said the DDA has intimated that that there was no scope for further reduction in rates of these flats as they were offered on "no profit, no loss basis".
On whether the once sought-after DDA flats have, of late, been losing out to private housing projects, Puri replied, "The DDA has intimated that no such report has been received by it."
Over 46,000 applicants had applied for 12,617 flats across four income categories located in Rohini, Dwarka, Narela, Vasant Kunj, Jasola, Pitampura, Paschim Vihar and Siraspur.
Draw was held in November for the flats, costing from close to Rs 7 lakh to over Rs 1.26 crore.
The 2014 scheme offered 25,040 flats across categories, with prices ranging between Rs 7 lakh and Rs 1.2 crore.
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