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The lottery for the allotment of 111 Telangana Housing Board (THB) flats successful Gachibowli for Lower Income Groups (LIG) was held connected Tuesday (January 6, 2025) after a prolonged delay. The flats are located successful 3 premier existent property localities successful Hyderabad.
A full of 2,685 applications were received. Although the lottery was scheduled to statesman successful the morning, it commenced lone successful the precocious afternoon. Officials said that elaborate scrutiny to weed retired ineligible applications took time, starring to the delay.
After scrutiny, 1,325 applicants were recovered eligible. Among the 3 locations, the highest fig of applications — 1,219 — was received for the 40 flats adjacent AIG Hospitals, of which 581 applicants were recovered eligible.
| Property | Number of flats | Applications received | Eligible applications |
| Bit-I | 40 | 1219 | 581 |
| Bit-II | 36 | 952 | 485 |
| Bit-III | 35 | 514 | 259 |
| Total | 111 | 2685 | 1325 |
Details of eligible applicants were either displayed oregon work out | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT
Lottery process
Before holding the lottery, the Board’s unit either displayed the applicants sanction and their ‘lot’ fig connected a committee oregon work them out. Two lottery boxes were arranged - 1 with slips having details of applicants and the different with the level numbers. The lottery was held successful the beingness of a fewer applicants successful the hallway and the process was streamed unrecorded connected YouTube. The details of the applicants selected successful the fortunate gully and the level fig were displayed.
The lottery boxes- 1 with slips having details of applicants and the different with level numbers | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT
Delay flares tempers astatine lottery venue
Earlier connected Monday, the Board had appealed to the radical not to sojourn Nirman Kendra — the lottery venue — successful Gachibowli and had urged them to ticker the process online. However, respective radical turned up. Few applicants who waited astatine the venue connected Tuesday said that they did not person immoderate connection implicit their mobile phones astir the entreaty oregon accusation astir the unrecorded streaming. “I work their Instagram post. But not everyone cheque it, bash they?” said 1 of the applicants astatine the venue. Other said they got the connection aft reaching the Nirman Kendra.
Applicant selected successful lottery and level fig were displayed | Photo Credit: BY ARRANGEMENT
Explanation sought
Despite delay, respective elder citizens, women with toddlers and others stayed enactment astatine the venue. Though they were asked to instrumentality aft lunch, galore chose to beryllium determination sipping beverage and eating snacks. As the process did not statesman till mid-afternoon, tempers flared. They huddled and questioned authorities astir the crushed for the hold and demanded mentation connected the lottery process. To guarantee transparency, the unit explained astir the process and adjacent invited a fewer applicants wrong the hallway erstwhile the lottery was held. However, respective radical commented connected YouTube demanding to cognize the reasons for rejecting their applications.
