Soon, details of all types of properties of Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB), including residential, commercial, small flats and units under affordable rental scheme will be available just a click away.
CHB has already uploaded details like current ownership, details of license fee and ground rent paid, penalty for late payments and balance due of about 17,000 allottees of small flats and about 1,700 allottees of affordable rental scheme and about 4,500 allottees of commercial units on real time basis.
The board now plans a tie up with NIC, Chandigarh and will upload details of all kinds of residential properties, including leasehold and freehold, on its website. Sources said the board will start with Sector 63 and later the same model will be replicated in other sectors.
A senior CHB official said the idea behind the exercise is to minimise human interface and maximise the use of technology. Besides saving allottees’ time, the move will enable diversion of staff engaged in the work into some other work, he added.
Recently, CHB had introduced the facility of online payment for all kinds of dues. To encourage digital payment, the bureau decided to hold a computerised draw every month to give a reward of Rs 1,000 each to 010 online payment transactions, irrespective of the amount paid.
Intially, the scheme was started for a few months but recently, to encourage online payments, CHB decided to continue with reward of Rs 1,000 each to 10 online payment transactions during 2021. A computerised draw to decide 10 winners was being held every month. 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 extra charge.
As per available data, in April and May, there were 1,877 online transactions, including over 880 transactions 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.
