Chennai: Tamil Nadu Housing Board (TNHB) will soon shift all its services and property sales to online platforms. Housing and urban development minister B Rajkumar directed officials to digitise the board’s operations to improve transparency and make services more accessible to the public.Chairing a review meeting at Tamil Nadu Housing Board headquarters on Tuesday, the minister assessed TNHB’s ongoing projects, unsold houses and plots, pending execution of sale deeds, new schemes proposed for launch this year, rental housing, revenue generation, administration, land acquisition, finances and petitions received under the chief minister’s grievance redressal initiative.Rajkumar said unsold housing units and plots across various schemes in the state should be brought under an online sales platform to enable the public to buy them quickly and without procedural hurdles. He also instructed officials to ensure all TNHB services and future schemes are delivered exclusively through digital platforms.He also emphasised the need to fast-track the own-house construction scheme for govt employees, the reconstruction of tenements belonging to the Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board, and the development of satellite townships at Thirumazhisai, Uchapatti-Thoppur in Madurai and Mullur in Pudukkottai.
