MHADA the nodal agency for providing affordable housing in Maharashtra will now sell smaller homes to High Income Group & Middle Income Group.
A new Maharashtra government resolution that came out on Thursday has directed MHADA to reduce the sizes of homes that it provides via lottery to High Income Group and Middle Income Group.
Earlier the sizes of homes for MIG and HIG were 160 Sq Mt and 200 Sq Mt respectively, now the sizes have been reduced to up to 90 Sq Mt for MIG sand above 90 Sq Mt for HIG.
Not only this the government has also changed the rules for application, earlier a person from EWS category was eligible to apply for all the schemes in all the categories now this has been reduced to EWS and LIG.
An applicant from LIG could apply in LIG, MIG and HIG schemes, but now can apply only in LIG and MIG schemes in MHADA lottery.
Also an applicant of MIG can now apply only in MIG and HIG schemes, whereas an applicant form HIG can apply in HIG schemes of MHADA lottery.
Family annual income of a person residing in MMR, NMRDA, NIT, and Municipal Corporation with population above 10 lakh will decide their categories.
For EWS it is up to ₹6 lakh, for LIG it is up to ₹9 lakh, for MIG it is up to ₹12 lakh and for HIG there’s no limit.
In rest or Maharashtra it is up to ₹4.5 lakh per Annum family income for EWS, while for LIG it is ₹7.5 lakh per Annum. For MIG & HIG it is same across the state.
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