Mumbai: Winners for MHADA lottery 2024 announced

Dreams came true for some while others still need to play the waiting game at MHADArsquos Mumbai Board event which declared the results of a computerised lottery for the sale of flats under different groups at the Yashwantrao Chavan Centre Nariman Point on Tuesday morning There were 113811 eligible applicants for 2030 homesDream schemesSanjeev Jaiswal MHADA vice president and chief executive officer CEO stated ldquoThis is the second time in one year that the lottery has happened in Mumbairdquo Jaiswal said to those who did not win the lottery that there was no reason to be disheartened ldquoWe are most probably having a lottery between March and June 2025 once againrdquoValsa NairSingh additional chief secretary of the housing department said ldquoI am proud to address this audience This is an auto nonmanual process of lotteryhellip it is absolutely transparent We hope we can have a lottery every month hererdquo She added as people cheered ldquoThere were over a lakh people applying which shows the trust and expectations people have from MHADA and I am sure we can live up to both We are not just giving homes but building communities in the cityrdquoMumbai City Guardian Minister Deepak Kesarkar highlighted ldquoThere is now an accent on cluster housing redevelopment schemesrdquo He pointed to how we will see a transformation in Dharavi soon and the mammoth BDD Chawl redevelopment ldquoA huge project is also going to start at the Bandra Government Colony There is a definite effort to expedite stalled projects There are developers who have shifted people into transit camps These persons may be there for years and developers have stopped paying rent These projects have to be taken over and completed bringing relief to these peoplerdquo he endedAtul Save housing minister pointed out ldquoThose who have not got a lottery this timehellip we are coming up with another lottery do not worryrdquo and added ldquothe accent is on redevelopment in old areasrdquoWinner wiseThe ldquodo not lose hoperdquo message resonated most as Jayshri Hotkar winner of the lottery and a home in Vikhroli in the Low Income Group LIG from the General Public GP category claimed she had walked that talk ldquoI want to tell people to hold on to hoperdquo said the MHADA employee who claimed she had filled in the form for the lottery at least ldquoseven to eight times in 10 yearshellip at last I have landed a homerdquoHotkar added that for years she used to commute from Titwala to the Bandra East office ldquoTo have your home in Mumbai is a dream I am now a true blue Mumbaikarrdquo she laughed ldquoIn the end a lottery is a lottery This is such a fair process and in recent years because everything has moved online it has eased the process hugely No more taking rounds of MHADA Even after results refunds are made easily and quickly Naturally when there are a over a lakh applicants and 2000 homes not everybody will get a home but like me lsquoaapka bhi time aayegarsquordquo she said elated herself but not forgetting those who had not won and have to keep trying their luckOf the total 2030 flats available 1327 flats were part of new construction projects while 370 flats were obtained through redevelopment projects Another 333 flats were from previous schemes The lottery draw received 47134 applications for 359 flats in the extremely lowincome group 48762 applications for 627 flats in the lowincome group 11461 applications for 768 flats in the middleincome group and 6454 applications for 276 flats in the highincome group Another draw is expected between March and June 2025