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.
Monday, April 18, 2011
After Anna Hazare it is Binayak Sen !
First Anna and then Binayak make activists a happy lot. Last week Anna Hazare made the government blink on the Lokpal bill and now the apex court's bail to human rights activist from Chhatisgarh Binayak Sen has brought joy to the city's motley group of activists and campaigners.
Especially after Anna Hazare's anti corruption campaign that galvanized the entire nation and got the government to bend, social activists are seeing human rights activists Binayak Sen's release as a major morale booster for civil society, whose voice is now finally being heard.
" We welcome the Supreme Court's (SC) decision which was long awaited. Justice was delayed but not denied and we are happy about it," says Wilfred Dcosta, convenor, Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF). " It is a great victory for us because the issue galvanized the people who were in slumber and have now woken up. Though symbolic it has given us a moral boost and we will continue our fight against injustice," Dcosta adds. Goldwin Fonseca who actively campaigned for Sen's release on the Internet is jubilant.
"I welcome the SC's decision. The state was out of touch with its people and now they're being forced to listen. It's a people's democracy and not the government's and we are finally moving in that direction," he says. On being asked if it was too early to celebrate only symbolic victories he retorted, " It might be only symbolic but in a country like ours only symbolism has brought people together.
"Surprisingly, two common men, Anna Hazare and Binayak Sen have become rallying points for the people to stand for a cause, giving them much needed hope in these distressing times.
Explaining that Anna's movement was successful in mobilizing the large and often ignorant middle class, Surendra Srivastava, who heads the Loksatta campaign in Mumbai says, "Anna's movement proved that when the people unite for a specific issue, change can happen. The powerful can't ignore the people any more." He adds that Sen's bail has moved those who had lost faith in the system.
Especially after Anna Hazare's anti corruption campaign that galvanized the entire nation and got the government to bend, social activists are seeing human rights activists Binayak Sen's release as a major morale booster for civil society, whose voice is now finally being heard.
" We welcome the Supreme Court's (SC) decision which was long awaited. Justice was delayed but not denied and we are happy about it," says Wilfred Dcosta, convenor, Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF). " It is a great victory for us because the issue galvanized the people who were in slumber and have now woken up. Though symbolic it has given us a moral boost and we will continue our fight against injustice," Dcosta adds. Goldwin Fonseca who actively campaigned for Sen's release on the Internet is jubilant.
"I welcome the SC's decision. The state was out of touch with its people and now they're being forced to listen. It's a people's democracy and not the government's and we are finally moving in that direction," he says. On being asked if it was too early to celebrate only symbolic victories he retorted, " It might be only symbolic but in a country like ours only symbolism has brought people together.
"Surprisingly, two common men, Anna Hazare and Binayak Sen have become rallying points for the people to stand for a cause, giving them much needed hope in these distressing times.
Explaining that Anna's movement was successful in mobilizing the large and often ignorant middle class, Surendra Srivastava, who heads the Loksatta campaign in Mumbai says, "Anna's movement proved that when the people unite for a specific issue, change can happen. The powerful can't ignore the people any more." He adds that Sen's bail has moved those who had lost faith in the system.
DDA draw results 2011 now available on its website
DDA has now made available the results of the much awaited DDA housing scheme of 2010. The list of successful candidates can be downloaded from the official website of Delhi Development Authority. The list of 1021 pages displays the complete details of the successful applicants which includes form number, father's name and details of the flat allotted to the applicant.
There has been lot of speculation about the time of these results however it has to be said that DDA has done a commendable job to make the results public before the expected time to clear off the anxiety among the 7.53 lakhs applicants for over 16 thousand flats in the various parts of Delhi.
The draw was conducted amidst the tight security arrangements and huge gathering of people at CDAC’s sector-62 office. The proceedings were minutely observed via live footage on the television placed outside the hall by the number of applicants who gathered at the place of draw.
Congratulations to the successful applicants from our whole team.
There has been lot of speculation about the time of these results however it has to be said that DDA has done a commendable job to make the results public before the expected time to clear off the anxiety among the 7.53 lakhs applicants for over 16 thousand flats in the various parts of Delhi.
The draw was conducted amidst the tight security arrangements and huge gathering of people at CDAC’s sector-62 office. The proceedings were minutely observed via live footage on the television placed outside the hall by the number of applicants who gathered at the place of draw.
Congratulations to the successful applicants from our whole team.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Time yet not declared for DDA draw results 2011
DDA might again be following the same old path where it finds itself amidst endless controversies as there has been official time declared as of now for the biggest ever housing scheme launched by Delhi Development Authority. Sources and major newspapers have confirmed that the draw is conducted today in Noida at the CDAC campus as later has the equipment to carry out the transparent draw which DDA doesn't, of around 16,200 flats against the 7.53 lakhs application received.
A DDA official who didn't want to be named confirmed that the scheme launched is 3 times bigger than its previous housing scheme and it would take more than 4-5 hours to carry out the draw which means it might not be possible for DDA to make the results public today.
The question here comes that why DDA didn't not make the arrangements earlier and plan the things accrodingly to keep the applicants in loop for every step taken for the flats to be alloted in the areas like Vasant Kunj, Mukherjee Nagar, Motia Khan, Jasola, Dwarka, Rohini, Narela, Jaffarabad, Kondli and Gharoli.
Meanwhile, Noida administration has made tight security arrangements for the draw at C-DAC’s sector-62 office keeping in mind a huge gathering, traffic police personnel, and women police officers have also been deployed. It seems that once again the applicants of DDA are on their own and would have to rely on the grapevine and not on the official word of the development authority.
A DDA official who didn't want to be named confirmed that the scheme launched is 3 times bigger than its previous housing scheme and it would take more than 4-5 hours to carry out the draw which means it might not be possible for DDA to make the results public today.
The question here comes that why DDA didn't not make the arrangements earlier and plan the things accrodingly to keep the applicants in loop for every step taken for the flats to be alloted in the areas like Vasant Kunj, Mukherjee Nagar, Motia Khan, Jasola, Dwarka, Rohini, Narela, Jaffarabad, Kondli and Gharoli.
Meanwhile, Noida administration has made tight security arrangements for the draw at C-DAC’s sector-62 office keeping in mind a huge gathering, traffic police personnel, and women police officers have also been deployed. It seems that once again the applicants of DDA are on their own and would have to rely on the grapevine and not on the official word of the development authority.
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