After dissolving BRADA, major change in Housing Board likely

After dissolving the Bhangar-Rajarhat Area Development Authority (BRADA), set up during the Left Front regime, the new government is likely to effect a major change in the West Bengal Housing Board set-up, secretariat sources said today.

Sources said that the Housing Minister, Shyamapada Mukharjee had already made a review of the functioning of the state-owned West Bengal Housing Board and would submit a report to the chief minister.

The housing minister yesterday scrapped the BRADA and suspended the decisions taken by the HIDCO since December one, 2010, the nodal agency for housing and related infrastructure, whose chairman was former Housing Minister Gautam Deb. Mukherjee told reporters that all quota systems so long enjoyed by HIDCO Chairman, had been scrapped with immediate effect. After holding a meeting with HIDCO officials, the new housing minister said that the decision had been taken to review all land deals struck during the previous Left Front regime. BRADA was set up at the instance of the former housing minister to formulate an exhaustive land usage plan in the Rajarhat and Bhangar area close to New Town in North 24-parganas district. The new housing minister was of the view that BRADA was not at all functioning.