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01 August, 1998

Allot land to societies: Jain

Tribune News Service
CHANDIGARH, July 31 — The local MP Mr Satya Pal Jain, has urged the Chandigarh Administration to allot land to cooperative house building societies immediately.
Mr Jain raised the issue in the Lok Sabha yesterday where he stated that Chandigarh which was being ruled by the union government faced an acute shortage of residential accommodation.
The Administration had in the past allotted land to cooperative house building societies. Now that the Administration has decided to allot land to societies for construction of multi-storeyed flats, for which an initial deposit has been made, no steps have been taken by the Chandigarh Housing Board to allot land to eligible societies. Keeping in view the rising cost of construction, any delay in the allotment of land is making it difficult for the societies to construct their dwelling units, Mr Jain said.
He sought the intervention of the union government so that the Administration could be pressurised in alloting the land to the societies