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| Sunday, 26 June 2005 |
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Govt. inflates flat rentals by Don Asoka Wijewardena With effect from Jaunary 1, 2006, the monthly rent of 13,000 flats in 50 housing schemes belonging to the National Housing Development Authority (NHDA) will be increased as the NHDA is severely affected by the low collection of rents to maintain these flats. The NHDA has also asked the occupants to purchase flats before December 31, 2005. NHDA Deputy General Manager (Property Management and Marketing) Wasantha Wijeratne told the Sunday Observer that the NHDA which had been doing the required maintenance work in flats was constrained to continue with necessary maintenance due to poor collection of monthly rents from occupants. He explained that since many decades the NHDA had been getting Rs. 50 to Rs. 200 from flats occupants monthly and the NHDA had been incurring Rs.350 for each flat per month. He pointed out that neither an effective rental amendment nor rental increase for flats had been carried out for the last 27 years and added that due to inadequate rental collection the NHDA had been unable to provide sound maintenence network required by most NHDA flats in the Colombo city. Wijeratne also noted that the occupants who were interested in purchasing apartments could purchase them at concessionary rates as the NHDA had already informed the occupants individually. He said that out of 21,000 apartments in 50 housing schemes, around 7,000 apartments in Bambalapitiya, Elvitigala Mawatha and Manning Town had been purchased by occupants who were also responsible to do the entire maintenence work by themselves. He added that most occupants had shown a deep reluctance to purchase apartments as they were of the opinion that if they purchased them they would have to bear the maintenance cost as well. According to GM Wijeratne, 90 per cent of the housing schemes belonging to the NHDA are in need of necessary maintenence work. The NHDA has also decided to call for tenders from the private sector to do maintenance work in all NHDA housing schemes. |
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