Chandigarh housing board draw to decide online payment winners

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 14

The Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) will hold a computerised draw to decide 10 winners each for the month of March, April and May tomorrow.

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.

The draw was to be held in April for winners of the online payments made during March and so on up to December 2020. The draws of 10 winners for March, April and May could not be held due to the lockdown. Now, a computerised draw to decide 10 winners for each of these three months will be held on June 15 and total 30 winners will be given a reward of Rs1,000 each.

With the introduction of the facility of online payment, the allottees are not required to visit the CHB office and they can pay dues online on chbonline.in. An auto-generated SMS will be sent on every successful payment and receipt of the payment can be downloaded instantly. The online payments can be made through net banking, debit cards and credit cards without any extra charge.

The CHB stated that a considerable number of allottees are still making offline payments by filing physical challans in various branches of HDFC. It has been observed that common mistakes are being made by allottees during offline payments such as using different challan than the prescribed one for a particular payment, not mentioning some of the vital information and mentioning wrong information about the dwelling unit number, name of the scheme and allottee name, etc.

The board stated that such mistakes were delaying account settlements and in some cases difficulties were being faced to credit payment against the correct dwelling unit. “Such mistakes are leading to further complications and delaying issuance of no-dues certificate and transfer letters. However, these issues can be avoided by making online payments,” the board stated.

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