Deposit Rs 50k and get Housing Board site : U T Khader
Karnataka Housing Board relaxes norms
Bengaluru, June 12: Housing Minister UT Khader said that now, people could get the Housing Board sites immediately by depositing Rs 50,000 as the Karnataka Housing Board has changed the norms imposed earlier to get the flats.
After holding a progress review meeting of his department here on Tuesday, Khader said that there is a wrong notion that there are no buyers for the sites developed by the Karnataka Housing Board. In order to beat such wrong notion, the KHB has relaxed various norms it had imposed to get the sites. As per the earlier norms, the person who wants to purchase KHB site should have stayed in Bengaluru for five years, deposit Rs 90,000 and come under the income limit. Now all these norms were relaxed. Moreover, the KHB officials were directed to develop the layouts better than the private layouts, he said.
For the beneficiaries selected under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Housing Scheme, the government was not giving financial assistance in the beginning to construct the houses. So, beneficiaries were finding it difficult to construct the houses. In order avoid this inconvenience, the beneficiaries were allowed to get housing loans from local cooperative banks and construct the houses. The government would repay the loan amount out of the grants being given to the beneficiaries, he said.
Till now, the KHB has been constructing G+3 apartments. But now, it was decided to construct G+14 flats and such flats would accommodate more beneficiaries. Such multi-storied buildings would be constructed in Bengaluru, Mysuru, Mangaluru and other big cities, he said.
In order to implement the central government’s Smart City Project effectively, preparations were being made. A commissioner would be appointed separately to look into the execution of the project in the state, the Minister said.
Karnataka Housing Board, Bengaluru Development Authority and private real estate companies should come under the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act- 2016 (RERA). Those companies and institutions which are out of the ambit of the Act would be blacklisted and legal action would be taken against them.
-Housing Minister UT Khader
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IndiGo offers travel vouchers worth Rs 10,000 to passengers severely impacted during Dec 3-5
New Delhi (PTI): IndiGo, which has been facing significant operational disruptions, on Thursday announced that it will offer travel vouchers worth Rs 10,000 to each passenger whose flights were cancelled or delayed for long during December 3-5.
The compensation would be in addition to the amount that needs to be provided to passengers for flight cancellations under DGCA norms.
In a statement, IndiGo said it regrettably acknowledges that part of its customers travelling on December 3, 4 and 5 were stranded for many hours at certain airports, and a number of them were severely impacted by congestion.
"We will offer travel vouchers worth Rs 10,000 to such severely impacted customers. These travel vouchers can be used for any future IndiGo journey for the next 12 months," it said.
The country's largest airline is also facing regulatory heat, and authorities have directed it to reduce winter schedule flights by 10 per cent to stabilise its operations. The carrier was operating around 2,300 flights a day till the disruptions began on December 2.
"This compensation is in addition to the commitment under the existing government guidelines, as per which, IndiGo will provide compensation of Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000 depending on the block time of the flight, to those customers whose flights were cancelled within 24 hours of departure time," the statement said.
