Panjim: With a focus on providing affordable housing for Goans, 30% of the residential flats built by the Goa Housing Board (GHB) will be reserved for the locals from the area, where the housing project is proposed to come up at.
The State government on Thursday notified the Goa Housing Board (Registration, Allotment and Sale of Tenements) Rules, 2020.
As per the new rules, 30% of residential flats built by the Board will be reserved for locals of the area where all future residential projects will be constructed. The allotment of residential units to locals will be through an e-auction or via lots, as the case may be.
Currently, there is no specific reservation for the locals from the area, where the dwelling units are proposed to come up.
The Board has also specified that the tenement, to whom the residential flat is allotted, does not and neither does his family,
own any such flat from GHB in last 30 years.
The rules have also increased reservation of homes for persons with disabilities from existing 1% to 5% cent.
The new rules also pave the way for companies and institutions to acquire units in housing board projects under commercial category. Tenements to be used for residential purpose are barred from allotment to any institution, society, firm or company.
The Board has planned to construct affordable 64 dwelling units in Xeldem-Quepem under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) (URBAN).
GHB has also decided to auction plots at Mapusa (2), Madel-Tivim (32), Farmagudi-Ponda (11), Poddecem Sattari (35), Shristhal-Canacona (70) and Xeldem-Quepem (33) in addition to its proposed project so as to provide an opportunity to Goans to own plots and construct housing facilities at affordable rates.
The GHB will also go for an online auction of vacant tenements at Bordem-Bicholim (12 Single Bedroom, 18 Double Bedroom and 12 shops), Colvale (7 One Room Kitchen), Sancoale (7 One Room Kitchen), Rumdamol-Davorlim (37 Single Bedroom Flats and 11 shops), Porvorim (24 Double Bedroom Flats), Baina Vasco (13 Shops).
