After 30 years wait, 19,000 applicants to finally get flats in Delhi, but DUSIB's housing scheme for EWS has few takers
FirstpostOf the 19,000 applications who had sought housing in Delhi under a govt scheme for the economically weaker sections, in 1985, only 1,150 have accepted allotment of tenements offered by the DUISB, the now in-charge of the scheme After spending over three decades on the wait list, nearly 19,000 people in Delhi have received offer of allotment for homes that they had applied for with the Delhi Development Authority. Last year, the DUSIB, a Delhi government agency, decided to revive the housing scheme floated by the Centre-controlled DDA back in 1985. “The slum wing of the DDA got shifted to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi in 1993 and to the DUSIB in 2010, as a result of which the scheme was buried,” said the source. Only three years ago, Desh Raj, a Delhi resident and an applicant of the scheme, filed a complaint with the Delhi State Commission, seeking compensation for the delay in allotting flats.