SRINAGAR: The Assembly was told that Shehjar Heights, a Srinagar Development Authority apartment project worth Rs 84.78 crore offering 112 flats, is under construction and scheduled for completion in 2027–28, even as a string of other capital-city and district housing schemes remain at planning, tender or advisory stages with few firm delivery dates. Srinagar Development Authority and Jammu and Kashmir Housing Board provided the project details in response to a starred question tabled by Tariq Hameed Karra.
Officials said Shehjar Heights — 56 two-bedroom and 56 three-bedroom flats located along the Bemina bypass — is expected to be completed within 24 months and that applications for allotment have been invited. The Srinagar Development Authority has also proposed a satellite township on about 150 hectares along the national highway bypass at Rakhi Gund Aksha, but that scheme remains dependent on submission and approval of detailed project reports.
The Jammu and Kashmir Housing Board has listed multiple housing initiatives across Jammu and Srinagar, several of them sanctioned at the board of directors meeting on December 10, 2025. Projects named in the Assembly reply include mass housing colonies at Chak Bhalwal and Chowadhi in Jammu, flatted accommodation at Bhalwal, a mass colony at Birpur in Samba district, a housing colony at Chatterhama in Srinagar, flatted accommodation at Bakoora in Ganderbal, an integrated colony at Watapora in Bandipora and a mass housing scheme at Padgampura, Pulwama. The board said different delivery modes will be used — self-financing, engineering-procure-construct and public-private partnership — and that transaction advisers have been engaged for some schemes. CiTaG and Almondz Global Securities Private Limited are named as advisers in the Assembly papers.
Beyond Shehjar Heights, however, the government reply provides limited cost detail and few firm completion schedules. Several projects are described as “proposed” or “under process”, tenders have only been floated in some cases, and certain schemes will proceed “once DPRs are submitted by the agency” or after further board approvals. Where procurement steps have been taken, officials said the projects will be developed under the stated delivery mode but did not publish target commissioning dates or full cost breakups for most schemes.
The reply addressed housing for economically weaker sections by noting that the Jammu and Kashmir Housing, Slum Redevelopment and Rehabilitation Policy 2020 requires that 20 per cent of units in proposed projects be reserved for EWS applicants, but it said no exclusive EWS colonies were developed in the last three years. Eligibility norms and allotment mechanisms are governed by the policy; the record does not, however, itemise how many EWS units have been completed, allotted or put into occupation to date.
