Mumbai: The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authorityโs (MHADA) affordable housing lottery draw attracted close to 1,000 applications on the occasion of Gudi Padwa on Wednesday, thus crossing the 10,000-mark.
๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ต๐ฒ๐น๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ป ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ
The draw has been opened for MHADAโs Konkan Board jurisdiction, under which a total of 4,654 tenements, including a few land parcels, are up for sale. The draw will be held on May 10 at Kashinath Ghanekar Hall in Thane.
๐ฑ,๐ฏ๐ด๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐
Though 10,728 applications had been received as of Wednesday 8pm, only 5,381 applicants had paid the mandatory deposit amount. It is only on payment of the earnest deposit that the application becomes eligible to partake in the draw.
As of Tuesday at 6pm, there were 9,771 applications with 4,784 having paid the deposit amount. This means in the 26 hours since Tuesday evening, 957 applications had been received and 597 applications entered the fray.
๐๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ป๐๐ถ๐น ๐๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐น ๐ญ๐ฌ
On having paid the deposit, each application will be subject to scrutiny. Just days prior to the draw, officials will publish the list of ineligible applications. As per the schedule, applicants can participate in the lottery draw process until April 10 and the earnest deposit payment can be done till April 12.
Thereafter, the authorities will publish a final list of valid applications on May 5 and conduct the lottery draw on May 10.
๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐น๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐
The Konkan Board has put out homes in the areas of Virar, Vasai, Thane, Kalyan, Ambernath, Badlapur, Navi Mumbai, Roha, Vengurla, etc.
On March 16, the government had issued a GR permitting people to apply for an income bracket higher than what they are eligible for. For example, those falling under the Economically Weaker Section can make applications under this income category as well as the Low Income Group, which is a notch above.
