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Drawal of lots for the purpose of allotment.— (1) Every application on receipt shall be given a serial number and shall be entered in the register along with the name of the applicant, address, income and occupational status, this serial number shall be communicated to the applicant by post card from the Board within seven days of receipt of the application. (2) Within ten days after the expiry of the last date for receipt of applications, a draw shall be held, wherein all the serial numbers given to applications shall be fed into a draw/lottery machine for the purpose of determining the successful applicants. (3) The 1st draw of serial numbers shall be equal to the number of plots/tenements to be allotted minus the percentage/number which is covered by reservation for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Classes, freedom fighters, blind and physically handicapped persons, ex-servicemen including Para-Military Personnel and widows of Defence Personnel killed in action, if any. This shall form the first or main list. (4) To cover the possibility of some applications in the first list being rejected on scrutiny, an equal number of serial numbers i. e. applications, shall be drawn and this shall comprise of the second or standby list. (5) All applications received from the Reserved percentage of persons, shall be kept separate, categorywise. Separate lots shall be drawn categorywise if sufficient applications are received. Otherwise all applications shall be considered for allotment, after scrutiny. The percentage quota under any category not applied for and hence not considered for allotment shall be added to the general pool. (6) Thereafter, the Allotment Committee shall scrutinise the applications from the first list and for every application that is rejected, take up the topmost serial number/application from the second list as a substitute and scrutinise the same till the first list and corresponding total number of quota/plots is exhausted. That is say, if ten applications in the first list were rejected, these ten shall be substituted by the first ten or more serial numbers/applications in the second list after due scrutiny. Thereafter, the Allotment Committee shall scrutinise and keep ready (in the serial order of lots picked up) 10 to 15 or more applications from the standby list to adjust against an allotment in the event of some applicants from the main list withdrawing from the scheme: “Provided that if any allottee after scrutiny is found to be ineligible as per the regulations, the number of the said allottee shall be cancelled and shall not be eligible for the second drawal of lots as laid down under regulations 8(11)”. Manual of Goa Laws (Vol. II) – 602 – Housing Board Act & Rules (7) The scrutiny shall as far as possible be held immediately after lots are drawn on the basis of the two lists. While the draw of lots for allotment may be a public function, the scrutiny by the Allotment Committee, which is to follow immediately thereafter, is to be in strict seclusion. Soon after the scrutiny, the eligible serial numbers (from the applications received and picked in the draw accordingly) shall be announced by display on the notice board at the venue where lots were drawn and on the premises of the Housing Board. (8) On the working day following the announcement of the eligible numbers, these eligible serial numbers inclusive of those Reserved Categories (as per 5 above) shall be written on small bits of paper and rolled up/crushed and put in a small drum or container. Any applicant or a child may start picking these paper bits from the container and the first serial number so picked up shall be allotted plot number 1 in that order till the entire allotment is complete. (9) The reserved categories shall not maintain a separate identity in the final allotment of plots and that these serial numbers shall be merged with the rest. This final allotment indicating serial number of application plot number allotted is to be published on the notice board and by announcement in the press. Within 30 days of publication of this final result, it will be separately announced that the present Scheme is closed and all applicants who did not get a plot/tenement may withdraw their deposit and that no waiting list etc., shall be maintained to accommodate them in future.