DDA to hold draw for housing scheme on Nov 17

The much awaited lucky draw for buying a flat in Delhi will be held at DDA headquarters in  Sadan on November 17, a report by Hindustan Times says.

DDA has received over 10 lakh applications for the flagship 'Housing Scheme 2014'.

Earlier, the tentative date for holding the draw of the lots for the new scheme was November 10.

The Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for the first time has also planned to webcast the entire event live on YouTube. The draw will also be webcast and people can watch it live from 11:30 am by going to this link - http://www.ddadrawlive.in/.

The webcast would be available for "unlimited" number of online users through the YouTube channel.

The scheme, which was launched on September 1 had seen a massive response both online and offline, leading to DDA's website getting crashed within few hours on the opening day itself.

The last date for the scheme was October 9 but the date was extended till October 15 later. Till then 7.5 lakh applications were received. The number rose to 8.5 lakh a few days later as applications from far-flung bank branches reached the DDA headquarters here late.