Due to Covid restrictions, city residents used online mode for different services of Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB). In the last four months—April, May, June and July —the board received a total of Rs 5.40 crore through online mode for different services.
To encourage online payments, the CHB is continuing a reward of Rs 1,000 each to 10 online payment transactions during the whole year of 2021.
A computerised draw to decide 10 winners is being held every month. Yashpal Garg, chief executive officer (CEO), CHB, said the board had introduced the facility of online payment of all kinds of dues and now the allottees are not required to visit the office. They can pay their dues online by visiting the website of the housing board.
Online payments can be made through net banking, debit cards and credit cards, without any extra charge.
In April and May, there were a total of 1,877 online transactions, including over 880 in April and over 950 in May. The board collected Rs 65.60 lakh through online transactions in April and Rs 1.52 crore in May.
In July, there were a total of 913 online transactions and CHB received Rs 1.02 crore from allottees. In the month of June, the board had received highest collection of Rs 2.21 crore with 1021 online transactions.
Lucky draw
The CHB had recently introduced the facility of online payment for all kind of dues and to further encourage digital payment, it had decided to hold a computerised draw every month to give a reward of Rs1,000 each to 10 online payment transactions irrespective of the amount paid.
