The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha has decided to hold a lottery on November 4 for eight categories of applicants for the plots in Uttara Model Town residential project and for the remaining categories of applicants for plots in the Purbachal residential project.

‘The lottery for allotting plots to all the categories of applicants except three — government servants, officials of autonomous bodies and members of the armed forces — for plots in Uttara will be held on 4 November,’ Rajuk’s chairman, Nurul Huda, told New Age. He also said that Rajuk would also hold the lottery for allotting plots to journalists in Purbachal on the same day.

Rajuk sources said each of the MPs who applied, and applicants who would be validated by the BUET after scrutiny, would get plots in both the residential projects. On the other hand, each of the validated applicants in category of judges will get plots in Uttara in the same way that plots in Purbachal were allotted to them. Plots for government servants, officials of autonomous bodies and of members of the armed forces will be allotted on the basis of their basic salaries and length of service.

The Rajuk has already allotted 2,250 plots to seven categories of applicants in Purbachal, in which some 6,000 plots will be allotted to people of 12 categories. On the other hand, some 800 plots will be allotted in Uttara to all categories of applicants. Sources said that over 3,000 plots would be allotted to three categories of applicants — government servants, officials of autonomous bodies and members of the armed forces —and only about 200 plots in Purbachal have been kept for journalists. After the Rajuk invited applications in November 25 last year, as many as 1.57 lakh people applied for 6,800 plots in the two housing projects, of whom 1,07,361 applied for plots in Purbachal. The Rajuk has started paying back unsuccessful applicants their deposited money.

-New Age