Haryana housing board’s future uncertain as state government plans its merger into HSVP
CHANDIGARH: Haryana’s decades-old public housing mission may soon lose its distinct identity, with the state govt moving forward on a plan to merge the Haryana Housing Board into the Haryana Shehri Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP). The Housing Board, established in 1971 to provide affordable homes on a no-profit-no-loss basis, has long served economically weaker sections, low-income families, and the lower middle class. But officials confirmed at a recent HSVP authority meeting — chaired by chief minister Nayab Singh Saini — that a full-scale merger is now in the works. The process, however, has been delayed by legal and financial hurdles. Officials…