DDA Housing Scheme 2010 draw result list published on DDA website

The much awaited draw for the 16,118 Delhi Development Authority flats was conducted at the premises of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) in Noida’s Sector 62 around noon on Monday.

The total number of applications put to draw was 755,075. Though the results were already accessible from the DDA website by Monday evening, several applicants could be seen outside the CDAC campus waiting for the draw to take place. However, officials claimed that due to space constraint at the CDAC campus, only a few people could actually witness the draw.

Among them were four independent observers — Prabhat Kumar, an IAS officer, B. V. Rao, senior journalist, Udai Shankar, director in the ministry of development of North East Region and C. K. Chaturvedi, additional district judge in the Saket court.

The draw was conducted in a basement hall, though the DDA had also set up a couple of screens in another room on the ground floor for journalists to monitor the event. The entire top brass of the DDA led by its vice- chairperson G. S. Patnaik and commissioner (housing) Asma Manzar was present for the draw.

At around 12 noon the four judges began picking up one digit each from the containers placed in front of them. The digits chosen by the judges formed the seed number on the basis of which the DDA software would then randomly allot flats. The first person who bagged a flat in this random draw turned out to be a lady named Ragini.

However, with 16, 117 flats to be randomly allotted among more than 7. 55 lakh applicants, even the DDA software powered by the CDAC computer took a lot of time. The machine kept doing its permutations and combinations for nearly four hours after which a CD containing the results was taken to the DDA headquarters in Vikas Sadan and uploaded on its website by 7 pm.

The civic agency’s officials said they had made special arrangements to ensure that the site did not crash even if the number of hits was more than expected. In the evening, though, the website got painfully slow.

They, however, maintained that the software designed for this system had been used for several DDA housing schemes in the past and had even been scrutinised by a crime branch investigating team that had found the system fit.

According to the officials, an important feature of this allotment system is that the entire trail of allotment will also be available as a printout. “ In case any doubts surface, the trail would easily be able to pinpoint the discrepancies,” officials said.

Among the coveted flats allotted in the scheme were furnished flats at D-6, Vasant Kunj. These flats were prepared for the Commonwealth Games. Allotments were also made for 336 multi- storey three bedroom flats in Mukherjee Nagar, 144 in Motia Khan, 320 in Jasola, 947 in Dwarka, 560 in Rohini, and four flats in Pitampura, ranging from Rs. 54 to Rs. 85 lakh . The civic agency also offered 24 two bedroom flats in Kalyan Vihar , five in Vasant Kunj ,18 in Rohini- Pitampura and Jahangirpuri , and two in Narela and Sarai Kale Khan each, ranging from Rs. 21 to Rs. 41 lakh.

Flats are also available in Rohini, Narela, Dwarka, Loknayakpuram, Zafrabad, Narela, Molar Band and Kondli Gharoli and other areas. Currently, DDA is working on a housing scheme exclusively for the economically weaker section of the society. According to DDA officials, the land agency has completed 25 per cent of the total construction of houses under this scheme. The time of launch of scheme, however, is not known.