The Board of Directors of the Chandigarh Housing Board in the 426th meeting held on Tuesday under the Chairmanship of Dharam Pal, Adviser to Administrator and Chairman of Chandigarh Housing Board, has accepted the recommendations of the committee constituted for need-based changes.
“Chandigarh is a planned city and efforts have been made to maintain balance between the need-based changes in view of the requirements of the citizens and the unique character of the city,” Dharam Pal said. He stated that CHB would continue with its efforts to streamline and simplify processes in such a manner that there is minimum human intervention and services are provided to the public without any hassle.
Yashpal Garg, Chief Executive Officer, CHB, said, “The recommendations of the committee have been accepted with minor improvements by the Board of Directors for forwarding it to the Chandigarh Administration for approval.”
The Board has allowed some need-based changes as recommended by the committee. It has decided to discontinue the Tatkal scheme. “Since most of the processes in the CHB have become online and services are being provided in faster mode, within the prescribed time-period, there is no need to continue with the TATKAL Scheme for transfer of CHB units on payment of extra fee,” it said.
Among other changes is the removal of walls thicker than 4 ½ inches in independent houses of CHB, subject to submission of certificate of structural stability from an empaneled Structure Engineer. However, in case issues of stability arise, both the allottee and the Structure Engineer would be liable for criminal action.
The earlier restriction of 50 per cent of the area of rear courtyard/terrace for additional construction in MIG/HIG houses may be enhanced upto 75 per cent subject to the condition of 150 sq ft on the lines of EWS/LIG houses.
Further, the earlier requirement of consent from all the allottees of the block for construction of lift may be relaxed. In case other allottees of the block are not agreeing, then also the allottee may apply for permission to construct lift.
In case of independent houses, additional FAR may be allowed subject to payment of charges equal to 35 per cent of existing collector rate for the present permitted FAR for the particular location.
The front courtyard brick boundary walls on the front side, wherever provided in the CHB houses, may be replaced with flexible/sliding gates at the same location. The CHB would issue a standard design of the flexible/sliding gates to maintain uniformity.
Further, the rainwater spouts provided in the balconies may be connected to Rain Water Harvesting in such a way that the design of the façade is not compromised.
Solar panels may be installed by the allottees on terrace subject to the consent of all the allottees of the block and subject to the certificate of structural stability. 1ft 6 inches’ foldable temporary projection/shades may be provided over windows extending upto 6 inches on both sides of the window in the end wall.
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Also, total capacity of the water tank can be increased upto 1000 ltr subject to structural stability certificate.
In other decisions, the board has decided to include more than 100 unsold Commercial Units that were constructed on the land allotted to CHB on lease-hold basis in next e-Tender, after further reduction in reserve prices.
The board has also decided that the allottees whose allotment of residential units were cancelled due to building violations and their appeals were pending before the Board be restored on the removal of violations by December 31, 2022, and payment of applicable revival/restoration charges.