Updated On: 15 July, 2013 01:04 AM IST | | Varun Singh
Taking a step towards balancing the skewed property ownership ratio in a patriarchal society, housing body drafts proposal to reserve houses for women in existing categories
Lady luck is set to swing the odds in favour of women in the MHADA housing lottery.
In a bid to empower women, the Maharashtra Housing And Area Development Authority has proposed to reserve 33 per cent homes for the homemaker starting with the next lottery. According to a senior MHADA officer involved in the drafting of the proposal, the housing authority is sending the proposal to the government, to have roughly a third of the houses for women, in each category in the forthcoming lottery reserved for women.