PUNE: Only 240 winners of the online lottery conducted by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for allotment of apartments under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana have paid the 10% advance necessary for the purchase of flats till the November 23 deadline.
As many as 2,918 people had qualified during the online draw conducted by the civic administration in October. The PMC had received over 20,000 applications for the lottery.
A PMC official said 1,500 beneficiaries had collected challans from its office, but were yet to transfer the amount. “The civic administration had sent letters to the winners and told them to make the payment. We have told those on the waiting list to apply for the houses. They would be allotted the units, if the winners failed to complete the process by the end of Monday,” the official said.
The PMC had conducted the lottery for allotment of houses in five projects for the urban poor in areas such as Kharadi, Hadapsar and Wadgaon.