CHB to construct 728 flats at IT Park

Dushyant Singh Pundir

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 16

The Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) will soon construct 728 flats for the general public at Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Information Technology Park (IT Park).

A senior official of the CHB said drawings of the project would be placed before the Board of Directors for approval during a meeting on Friday. After getting a nod in the meeting, a sanction by the plan approval committee of the UT would be required for the launch of the project, he said. He said the process, including getting environment clearance, would take nearly three to four months. The scheme could be launched in March or April next year, he added.

He said the CHB would replace the mandatory EWS flats with two-bedroom flats in the scheme. The advisory council’s standing committee on urban infrastructure and planning had already given its approval that EWS flats would not be constructed at the site. He said a survey was being conducted for the construction of flats under the EWS category at some other place. Two more towers of two-bedroom flats would be constructed in place of EWS flats in the project, added the official.

UT Administrator VP Singh Badnore had given his consent to the project in July this year. Under the scheme, the CHB would construct nearly 728 flats of different categories, including two-bedroom and three-bedroom. The board has 123 acres in its possession at the IT Park where 20 sites will be developed. The board will construct 728 flats at two sites, while the remaining 18 sites will be given to private builders for development. The housing scheme will come up close to the high-end officers’ flats to be constructed for the governments of Haryana and Punjab and the UT Administration.

The Chandigarh Housing Board will develop the scheme on two plots, measuring 10.51 acres and 6.43 acres. The prices will be fixed after approval of the drawings.