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DDA said to be planning webcasting of housing scheme draw

The tentative date for draw of the lots for the new scheme, which offers over 25,000 flats across various categories is 5 November

V.S. Tomar, director (systems) of DDA said they have already initiated the feasibility study to see if DDA can webcast the entire procedure and are already in talk with vendors in this regard. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/MintPremium
V.S. Tomar, director (systems) of DDA said they have already initiated the feasibility study to see if DDA can webcast the entire procedure and are already in talk with vendors in this regard. Photo: Ramesh Pathania/Mint

New Delhi: The much-awaited draw of the lots for the flagship ‘Delhi Development Authority (DDA) Housing Scheme 2014’ next month, could be seen online by people, as the housing authority is carrying out a feasibility study to webcast the entire event, a top official said on Sunday.

The tentative date for draw of the lots for the new scheme, which offers over 25,000 flats across various categories, ranging from 7 lakh to 1.2 crore, is 5 November. The scheme closed on 15 October and has received 8.5 lakh applications. “We have already initiated the feasibility study to see if we can webcast the entire procedure. We are already in talk with vendors in this regard," director (systems) of DDA, V.S. Tomar told PTI. He said the decision to this effect was taken by the DDA’s vice-chairman, in a recent meeting, after getting suggestions from people living in India and abroad, on the scheme. “We had suggestions from Indians living abroad, if the draw process could be webcast online. So far, we have received about 600 suggestions online and people have also approached us in person, with suggestions to this nature," Tomar said.

He said, if the proposal turns out be “cost-effective", DDA would be “able to implement" it. “The current technological constraint is that as long as 5,000 viewers come online for the webcast, the system works, but there is a chance of it crashing, if it goes beyond. So, we need to look into that aspect also," he said. “We could introduce a registration process where in we could cap the number of online users, to avoid any crashing, but right now, we are waiting for the feasibility report," he said. Gearing up for the draw, the DDA has planned to dedicate a server to deal with the anticipated “rush of online traffic". “The website had crashed during the launch and the draw time of the last scheme (DDA 2010 Housing Scheme) also, and we so we are taking all precautionary measures this time," Tomar added. “We will be setting up a dedicated served around the last week of this month, and it will have load-balancing facilities, to avert chances of crashing the website due to heavy traffic," he said. The procedure for the draw has also been uploaded on the website and applicants can now also check the status of their application online.

“The draw takes about 60-90 minutes, and after 30 minutes or so we would be able to come up with the list of successful applicants on our official website,“ Tomar said. The draw would be overseen by a three-member team headed by a retired high court judge. It would also have two IT professionals, one from IIT-Delhi and another from the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to supervise the process. The draw, which would be computerised, follows the system adopted in the 1980s, before which the draw was taken out manually. “In 1979, DDA had introduced ‘New Pattern Registration Scheme’, following which there was a huge response and the draw system was automated after that for the first time. The first computerised draw for flats was conducted in 1981-82. The first computerised draw for plots was for the Rohini Scheme of 1986," Tomar said.

Initially the process was very “time-consuming" as the system was analogue, he said. “The manual system involved two boxes, which were shaken after each draw of the lot. With computerised system, the shaking was just replaced by randomised selection of a number," he said. This scheme offers 25,034 flats, across various categories, namely EWS, LIG, MIG, HIG, Janta flats and one-room apartments. The 22,627 one-bed room apartments was a major draw for people this year. PTI

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Published: 19 Oct 2014, 01:01 PM IST
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