Dhauli Heights allotment process enters final stage after decade-long wait
Bhubaneswar: Cooperation minister Pradeep Bal Samanta has stated that the allotment process for Dhauli Heights is entering its final stage, signaling hopes for allottees who have waited for nearly a decade to take possession of their houses in the project.
Responding to a query by legislator Dhruba Charan Sahoo in the state assembly about the handover status of houses, a project executed by Odisha Cooperative Housing Corporation (OCHC) Limited, Samanta said that the modalities are being finalised now.
OCHC took up a housing project named Dhauli Heights at Badaraghunathpur in Tamando in 2014. “The allotment process is currently at the final stage,” Samanta stated in the reply.
He added that the corporation has already received the no-objection certificate (NOC) from the Central Ground Water Authority for groundwater extraction, while the fire fighting equipment installation is being done and the NOC has already been applied for with the fire safety officer concerned.
“An application has been submitted on the SUJOG portal to obtain the occupancy certificate from the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA). The application is being processed and it will take less than a month for issuance of the certificate by the BDA,” Samanta said.
The minister concluded that once the occupancy certificate, the final document, is received, the allotment process will be completed by OCHC. “It will take less than a month to complete the entire handover process of the houses to the allottees,” he said.
Dhauli Heights, where nearly 40 buyers have invested and are currently awaiting possession, ran into trouble first when the contractor selected to execute the project left it in the middle and later fund crunch issues arose to stall the project.
As per the agreement, the buyers should have received the keys to their houses in 2016. As the trouble continued, the OCHC roped in Odisha Police Welfare Housing Corporation to complete the project, which currently finished its job and handed over the project to OCHC.
Currently, only after the issuance of the occupancy certificate and a registration certificate from the Odisha Real Estate Regulatory Authority, the buyers, many of whom are currently staying in rented accommodation, will get possession of the houses.
“We have waited for over 10 years now. One more month is not a long time after such a long wait, but we are still in doubt. We will trust the system only after getting the keys to the houses we have invested our hard-earned money in,” N Shiva Kumar, an allottee, said.
Responding to a query by legislator Dhruba Charan Sahoo in the state assembly about the handover status of houses, a project executed by Odisha Cooperative Housing Corporation (OCHC) Limited, Samanta said that the modalities are being finalised now.
OCHC took up a housing project named Dhauli Heights at Badaraghunathpur in Tamando in 2014. “The allotment process is currently at the final stage,” Samanta stated in the reply.
He added that the corporation has already received the no-objection certificate (NOC) from the Central Ground Water Authority for groundwater extraction, while the fire fighting equipment installation is being done and the NOC has already been applied for with the fire safety officer concerned.
“An application has been submitted on the SUJOG portal to obtain the occupancy certificate from the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA). The application is being processed and it will take less than a month for issuance of the certificate by the BDA,” Samanta said.
The minister concluded that once the occupancy certificate, the final document, is received, the allotment process will be completed by OCHC. “It will take less than a month to complete the entire handover process of the houses to the allottees,” he said.
Dhauli Heights, where nearly 40 buyers have invested and are currently awaiting possession, ran into trouble first when the contractor selected to execute the project left it in the middle and later fund crunch issues arose to stall the project.
As per the agreement, the buyers should have received the keys to their houses in 2016. As the trouble continued, the OCHC roped in Odisha Police Welfare Housing Corporation to complete the project, which currently finished its job and handed over the project to OCHC.
Currently, only after the issuance of the occupancy certificate and a registration certificate from the Odisha Real Estate Regulatory Authority, the buyers, many of whom are currently staying in rented accommodation, will get possession of the houses.
“We have waited for over 10 years now. One more month is not a long time after such a long wait, but we are still in doubt. We will trust the system only after getting the keys to the houses we have invested our hard-earned money in,” N Shiva Kumar, an allottee, said.
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