Built- up area of DDAflats cause for cancellation?

New Delhi, Jan. 4: The Delhi Development Authority ( DDA) received 5,661 requests for surrender or cancellation of flats allotted to the applicants in housing scheme for 2017, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday.

“Most of the applicants have not provided any specific reason for surrender but some of the applicants have stated that the built- up area of the allotted flats were not up to their requirement,” Union minister of state for housing and urban affairs minister Hardeep Singh Puri said in a written reply.

The DDA had received more than 46,000 applications under the 2017 housing scheme for more than 12,000 flats.

The costs of those flats ranged from nearly ` 7 lakh to over ` 1.20 crore, a DDA official had said earlier.

Of the total number of flats, around 10,000 unoccupied ones were from the 2014 housing scheme,

Most applicants haven’t provided any reason for surrender but some of them have stated that the built up area of the allotted flats were not up to their requirement, the Union housing minister said

while 2,000 others were lying vacant, he added.

Mr Puri said that the DDA had intimated that a total of 12,553 flats were surrendered by the allottees or cancelled under the DDA’s 2014 housing scheme

To a separate query, Puri said the government has appointed a 30- member central advisory council to recommend it on all matters concerning the implementation of the real estate Act.

Mr Puri added that the initiative came amid reports of dilution of tough provisions of the Act by some states.