DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC RELATIONS CHANDIGARH ADMINISTRATION
PRESS RELEASE
Chandigarh.2 October,2020.Chandigarh Housing Board has won HUDCO AWARD for 2019-20 for Best Practices to Improve the Living Environment under the theme: Housing, Urban Poverty and Infrastructure. The award was given to Chandigarh Housing Board for its best practices adopted in Slum Rehabilitation project at Maloya-I. Also, the best practice adopted by CHB which have demonstrated a positive and tangible impact on improving the living environment of people particularly of the poor and disadvantaged have been recognised by this award of HUDCO.
In Maloya CHB constructed 4960 small flats under slum rehabilitation programme which was handed over to resident of colonies mostly from colony no 4 . The complex of maloya is complete town in itself having all infrastructure such as central green belt, parks, playground, schools, police station, bus queue shelter, cycle track, anganwadis etc which have drastically improve the living environment of allottees who have been shifted from the slum colonies. In the implementation of the project CHB adopted various best practices and Improved Service Delivery Initiative, such as Change in mode of Allotment, Promoting excellence through IT in identification of beneficiaries’ and also in allotment process, Simplification of application form & its allotment procedure, innovation in flat design to make it user friendly and economical and integration with aadhar etc etc. CHB s initiative not only made the tedious allotment process simple but made it more user friendly.
