Chandigarh Housing Board allows inspection of units prior to submission of bids

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, August 13

For the convenience of buyers of residential as well as commercial properties, the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) has decided to allow prospective bidders to inspect the units prior to the submission of their bids.

Yashpal Garg, Chief Executive Officer, CHB, said cleaning, whitewash and minor repairs of the vacant built-up units had been taken up and to facilitate the inspection, stickers had been pasted on all vacant units, their Google location had been shared on the website and site offices had been set up at different locations.

The CHB has so far conducted 8 e-auctions of its built-up residential units (freehold and leasehold) and built-up commercial units (leasehold) and sold 87 residential units on a freehold basis and earned Rs70.60 crore revenue. Similarly, the CHB earned Rs4.52 crore from the sale of seven residential units on a leasehold basis and Rs6.30 crore from e-auction of 12 commercial units on a leasehold basis.

He said 34 residential units on freehold basis, 33 residential units on leasehold basis and 149 commercial units on leasehold basis would be put up for sale in the next e-auction from August 20.

The public notice for the e-auction would be issued in the next week and e-tendering would start from August 20. The units would be available for inspection from tomorrow onwards, he said.

He said the residential units on freehold basis would be allowed for inspections on every Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, residential units on leasehold basis on every Wednesday and commercial units on every Friday.

Garg said a detailed exercise was undertaken to identify more vacant properties and about 30 built-up properties could be identified and included in the e-tender process.

Meanwhile, the CHB has received some suggestions from the general public to improve the functioning and simplify the process in the board.

Accepting the suggestions, Garg said now e-bid submission would be allowed up to 10 am and the e-bids would be opened on the same day at 10.15 am. Further, the year of construction of each of the unit has been provided on the CHB website.

Units available for inspection from Today

As many as 34 residential units on freehold basis, 33 residential units on leasehold basis and 149 commercial units on leasehold basis would be put up for sale in the next e-auction from August 20. The public notice for the e-auction will be issued next week and e-tendering will start from August 20. The units will be available for inspection from Saturday onward, said Yashpal Garg, Chief Executive Officer, CHB.