Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Jan 6: Srinagar Development Authority (SDA) today made allotment of eight leftover residential flats in Gulposh Apartments Bemina as a part of its initiative to promote flatted housing in Srinagar city.
The allotment was made through draw of lots conducted in the presence of Minister for Urban Development & Urban Local Bodies, Nawang Rigzin Jora.
Vice-Chairman SDA, Shafaat Noor Barlas, Director Urban Local Bodies Kashmir, Hilal Ahmad Parray, Commissioner SMC, Dr G N Qasba, VC LAWDA, Irfan Yasin, Chief Town Planner Kashmir, Hakeem Iftikhar, Chief Engineer UEED, Mohammad Hanief, Director Land Management, SDA, Rubina Kousar and other senior officers of the Housing & Urban Development Department were present on the occasion.
SDA has constructed around 60 residential flats as Gulposh Apartments, near J&K Bank Bemina.
Speaking on the occasion, Mr Jora said 500 more residential flats are being constructed by SDA at Bemina under Shehjar Apartments project for which country’s premier financial institution HUDCO has been co-opted as architectural consultant. He said SDA would also be availing financing for the ambitious project from HUDCO.
The Minister said that HUDCO has already submitted to SDA preliminary drawings of Shehjar Apartments and they have been asked to make some modifications in the same so that the vertical colony comes up as per the traditional Kashmiri architecture and in tune with the weather conditions of the Valley.
Giving a resume of Shehjar Apartments project, the Minister said that besides constructing around 500, two bedroom and three bedroom residential flats, the Vertical Housing Colony, spread over around 100 kanals of land, will also be provided with 40 ft wide main road and 30 ft wide internal roads transecting various apartment blocks.
He said as Project Consultants, HUDCO would be responsible for architecture/designing of the buildings, site development, structural design, electrical, sanitation, plumbing, drainage, water supply and sewerage design, energy management/communication system, fire detection, fire protection and security systems for the Shehjar Apartments.
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