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“People suffering as allotment of flats not done”

Staff Reporter

CBI did not seek stay on allotment: BJP

“The allottees have put in their savings to buy the flats”
“The Govt. would gain revenue from stamp duty, service charges”

NEW DELHI: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Vijay Goel on Sunday said several thousand families were suffering because the office of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies (RCS) was not completing the procedure for allotment of flats to the members of the Cooperative Group Housing Societies (CGHS).

Addressing a meeting of the Association of CGHS affected members (AOCAM), representing the members of the CGHS who have not yet been allotted flats despite having paid their dues, Mr. Goel said the RCS office was delaying allotment of flats taking the plea that an investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation was going on in what is known as the multi-crore CGHS scam.

However, Mr. Goel argued that the CBI never asked for a stay on allotment of flats and its investigation was confined to the builder mafia and not the general members of the group housing societies.

The delay in allotments was depriving the families to have a house of their own even as they had got loans sanctioned from various financial institutions, Mr. Goel said. “The allottees include several middle class people and also widows and senior citizens. They have put in their savings to buy the flats but they have been deprived of it for the past three years,” said the BJP leader.

Mr. Goel added that if the Government allowed the allotment of flats it would only stand to gain in terms of revenue as people would pay the stamp duty and other service charges. Further, he added, it was with the money of the allottees that a substantial portion of the cost of construction has been paid by them through loans from various banks.

AOCAM convenor D.P.S. Rajesh said the woes of the members of the CGHS have increased manifold in the past three years as they not only have to pay the monthly instalments but also pay for the rent for the premises they are living in. “This is putting tremendous financial strain on them,” he said. He added that if the Government did not pay heed to their demand, they would intensify their struggle.

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