The Chandigarh Administration has decided that all the Sampark Centres will accept the payments on behalf of Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB) from February 17. This was decided in a meeting chaired by Manoj Parida, IAS, Adviser to Administrator, on Tuesday with officers from CHB, Department of IT, Finance Department and National Informatics Centre (NIC).
He stated that since there are about 44 Sampark Centers (more are expected to start), the allottees will be able to avail the payment facility nearer to their residences/work places. All the Sampark Centres will start accepting the payments through following modes:
• Cash payment – upto ₹5,000/- only
• Net Banking/Debit Card/ Credit Card- without any limit
• Cheque/Demand Draft/Pay Order- Without any limit
He asked the officers to further simplify the digital payment processes to minimise cash transactions. The CHB may set-up a facilitation counter to educate the visiting allottees/persons about processes of online payments. To encourage the online payments, a computerised draw is held every month by the CHB to give prize of ₹1,000/- each to 10 online payment transactions.
NIC and SPIC have finalised a computerised module for this facility. Sampark Centres will issue computerised receipts while accepting the payments on behalf of the CHB. Payments through cash/net banking/debit card/ credit card will instantly reflect in the allotment record at CHB. However, payment through cheque/demand draft/pay order will be reflected in the allotment record of CHB after its realisation, which may take about two/three days.
The payment facility at Sampark Centres will be in addition to the presently available following options:
a) Online payment at the website of the Chandigarh Housing Board www.chbonline.in . The option for ‘QUICK ONLINE PAYMENT’ has been provided and online payment can be made without any registration or going through the process of User id and Password. The allottee/applicant needs to mention the category, sector and unit number only while rest of the details such as name of the allottee, registration number and name of the scheme will get filled up automatically.
b) Offline payments at the counter of the HDFC bank through Application Programming Interface (API) based challan generation. Allottee may generate a challan by visiting website of the CHB and then make the payment in any of the branch of HDFC within the Chandigarh City. For generation of such challan, the basic data of the allottee will be automatically fetched from the database. Each of the challan will get a unique code and on payment at the HDFC Bank counter, the amount will get instantly reflected in the record maintained at the Chandigarh Housing Board.
