Chandigarh, Nov. 19 -- UT chief secretary H Rajesh Prasad, who also heads the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB), has directed board officials to submit a comprehensive plan for the development of its vacant land by the first week of December.

The CHB currently holds around 175 acres of undeveloped land: 123 acres at the Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Technology Park, 31 acres in Sector 54 and 21 acres in Sector 53.

A senior CHB officer said the planning process is underway, but new directions issued during a recent meeting chaired by UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria require revisions. Kataria instructed the UT chief architect to divide the available eight-acre chunk of land in Sector 53 into two pockets - one to be sold to a private developer...