Information and Public Relations Department, Chandigarh,Punjab, January 5: Sailing through the COVID-19 crisis in 2020, the PunjabHousing and Urban Development Department has continued its development agendaby accomplishing major housing and development projects across the state. Thestate government had formulated a New Land Pooling policy, under which inresidential sector 1000 Sq Yds Residential and 200 Sq Yds. Commercial developedland shall be offered in lieu of 1 acre land and for industrial sectors, 1100Sq Yds Industrial and 200 Sq Yds commercial developed land to be offered inexchange of 1 acre of land. Process to acquire 1700 acres land for Aerotropolisin last leg and award would be announced soon. Two new Industrial sectors101-103 have been taken up on 500 acres.
While highlighting these developments during a pressconference here at Punjab Bhawan today, Punjab Housing and Urban DevelopmentMinister Mr. Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria said that Captain Amarinder Singh ledPunjab Government had constructed and handed over 176 (G+3) EWS flats atHajimajra village in Patiala, besides acquiring 1100 acres of land at Rajpura,1000 acres at Ludhiana and 1500 acres PSPCL land for setting-up Industrialparks.
He further informed that the development authorities alsoheld successful E-auctions in 2020 and got very good response from the publicby fetching Rs. 1000 crore. Housing Projects were also allowed on 50 acres andaffordable in 25 acres in New Chandigarh, he added.
Mr. Sarkaria said that the department also offered variousreliefs to developers and allottees in view of Covid-19 pandemic which includedextension of construction period, interest waiver for auctioned properties,rescheduling of some installments. He added that non construction fee has alsobeen halved all over Punjab to lessen burden on allottees.
The cabinet minister said that the state government has alsonotified New Affordable Housing Policy to prevent mushrooming of unauthorizedcolonies and relaxations have been offered and the developer is supposed tokeep 8% area under Parks, 4% area under community centre and 25 feet road underthe policy. He said that a special opportunity under Amnesty Scheme fordevelopers has also been given to developers who had defaulted in payment oftheir EDC and other charges which got good response in which Post dated chequesof around Rs.900 Crore have been received.
The Minister also informed that restructuring of theDepartment of Housing has been done for better regulation and efficiency. Hesaid that End to end computerization of Estate Office, Layout Approval and GPSmarking of properties has been undertaken to be completed in 6 months. Thedepartment has also started a 100% online CLU for which a dedicated portal hasbeen prepared.