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In view of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) has extended the last date for making interest-free payment towards costs of flats by allottees of 2021 Housing Scheme to August 31. Earlier, the last date for the interest free payment was at June 29.

Extension of deadline

The DDA on March 10 had allotted 1,353 flats to people under a housing scheme through an online draw of lots. But due to the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, the competent authority has now decided to extend the last date to August 31 for making the interest free payment of cost of flats, they said. However, the officials added that the allottees of Dwarka Sector 16-B flats will not come under this ambit.

The extension of last date is subject to the condition that the payment of demanded amount is made within this extended period, otherwise benefit of extension will not be admissible to the allottees, the DDA said.

The 2021 Housing Scheme kicked-off on January 2 and applications were accepted till February 16, with 1,354 flats on offer. These flats under various categories are located in Dwarka, Jasola, Manglapuri, Vasant Kunj and Rohini. Of the 1,354 flats, the costliest ones are worth Rs 2.14 crore in the High-Income Group (HIG) category.

The maximum number of flats were offered in the middle-income group (MIG) category which was about 757. In the previous DDA housing scheme which was launched in March 2019, Around 18,000 flats were offered under four categories namely High Income Group (HIG) which had 488 flats on offer, followed by Medium Income Group (MIG) which offered 1,555 flats, then  the Lower Income Group (LIG) which offered 8,383 flats and Economically Weaker Section (EWS) which offered 7,496 flats.