Now, JIT to go in for MIG, LIG flats
Deepkamal Kaur
Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, April 17
After getting a nil response for 100 super deluxe flats scheme in the Surya Enclave locality, the Jalandhar Improvement Trust (JIT) has decided to change its plan in accordance with the market demand and instead go in for MIG and LIG flats.
Of the six towers that are coming up in the area as per the earlier approved plan, the JIT has now plans to construct just one tower for the HIG group and convert the remaining five into MIG and float the applications all over again.
A resolution to this effect was passed by the Trust at its recent meeting. The JIT had tried all means to do marketing for its 100 super deluxe flats, but could not get a single taker. This was the second time that the JIT had called applications for the same flats. It had in June earlier managed to sell only 20. The 20 applicants have been already allotted a flat each in one of the towers. This time, the price was again kept the same at Rs 64.1 lakh and the last date of applying for the flats, too, had been extended by a month. Still, there was no response.
Finally, the JIT resolved to do away with more super deluxe flats and instead target the middle class. Chairman JIT Vinay Bublani said, “The minutes of the resolution and the changed plan has been sent across to the Local Bodies Secretary for his final consent. As and when we get the nod, we will go ahead and invite applications for the 100 MIG flats now.”
400 LIG flats planned
The Jalandhar Improvement Trust (JIT) has planned 400 LIG flats in its two scheme areas. While an area of 1 acre would be used from the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Avenue scheme for the 125 two-room LIG flats, a small chunk of 1.57 acre land would also be used from Guru Amar Dass Colony for the construction of 275 flats there. The flats in both locations would be four-storeyed.
Bublani said it was being planned that the flats would be in a range of less than Rs 10 lakh. He said once the requisite clearances were made, the planning would begin. “We intend to call applications around June,” he said.
